Fox News Is Most-Watched Cable Network for Second Consecutive Year

For the second year in a row, Fox News was the most-watched cable television network. Fox posted double-digit growth in total day and its 1.5 million viewer average is its largest average audience on a 24-hour basis since the network launched in 1996. (TVNewser)

MSNBC grew its prime-time audience by more than half a million viewers this year (550,000) versus 2016. No other cable network saw that type of year-over-year total audience growth. (TVNewser)

2017 was CNN’s most-watched year in network history. The 779,000 total viewer average (No. 5 across all of basic cable) is up 3 percent from 2016. (TVNewser)