The conservative network is facing competition from its liberal competitors and it the attack at Capitol Hill has contributed to the ratings win.
© Getty Images for CNN In this screengrab Anderson Cooper speaks during the CITIZEN by CNN 2020 Conference on September 22,2020 in UNSPECIFIED, United States. Both CNN and MSNBC scored a ratings win over Fox News for the first time in 20 years on Friday, January 8, according to Nielsen, via Mediaite. The conservative network is facing competition from its liberal competitors and it seems the attack at Capitol Hill has contributed to the ratings win. Friday night saw CNN average 4.36 million total viewers, and 1.31 million in the key demographic of viewers aged 25-54. This was closely followed by MSNBC, with 4.32 million total viewers and 838,000 in that same demographic. Fox came in third place, with 2.98 million total viewers and 513,000 in the 25-54 demographic. Newsweek has contacted Fox News for comment. Prime time saw most viewers tune into cable news shows, with MSNBC leading the charge with The Rachel Maddow Show and 5.15 million total viewers—the most-watched show of the day. In second was CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 with 4.86 million viewers on Friday night. Cuomo Prime Time had 4.32 million total viewers, making it the third most-watched program that night. CNN previously scored its highest-ever ratings on January 6 for its coverage of the insurrection in Washington, D.C. „Anyway, the ratings shift was almost certainly due to real-time interest over the Capitol riots as viewers flocked to CNN and MSNBC to get live news coverage,“ tweeted The Daily Beast contributing editor Justin Baragona in a thread about the ratings news. „Now, does this bode well for Fox’s new opinion-centric weekday lineup they announced today? I guess we’ll see,“ he added. Anyway, the ratings shift was almost certainly due to real-time interest over the Capitol riots as viewers flocked to CNN and MSNBC to get live news coverage. Now, does this bode well for Fox’s new opinion-centric weekday lineup they announced today? I guess we’ll see.
