Fox News Channel drew the most viewers Thursday during day-long, live coverage of democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. (TVNewser)
The three cable news networks managed Thursday to whip up a collective 4 million viewers willing to watch an hours-long interrogation between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET. That 5 p.m. is when Fox News Channel became the first cable news net to pull away from its camera-trained-on-hearing coverage, scoring that block of time’s biggest crowd: 2.2 million viewers. (Deadline)
As for total viewers, Fox News earned a whopping 1.637 million total day and 2.547 million between 8 and 11 p.m. ET. The O’Reilly Factor won total viewers in prime time on all of cable news, while The Kelly File took the No. 1 spot in the 25-54 demo. (Mediaite)
Fox pulled 290,000 day viewers from the main demo. MSNBC had 778,000 total viewers, with 121,000 in the demo. CNN was lower in total viewers with 690,000, but finished as runner-up in the demo, pulling 148,000 viewers. In the prime-time hours of 8-11 p.m., Fox grabbed 465,000 in the demo. MSNBC was again second in total viewers but third in the demo, with 1.409 million and 233,000, respectively. CNN had 1.283 million total viewers and 288,000 in the advertiser-coveted segment. (TheWrap)