Fox News was the most-watched cable news network for Thursday's historic Senate testimonies of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, according to early Nielsen ratings numbers.

Overall, Fox News averaged 5.7 million in total viewers throughout the Thursday hearing in front of the Senate's Judiciary Committee, topping MSNBC's 2.9 million viewers and CNN's 2.5 million.

Fox also won in the key 25-54 year-old demographic that advertisers covet most, averaging 1.1 million.

CNN was second in the category with 736,000 viewers and MSNBC third with 464,000.

After the hearings, Fox's Sean Hannity had the top rated show in the cable news race at 9 p.m. ET, with 5.86 million total viewers.

Laura Ingraham's "The Ingraham Angle" was second with 5.369 million viewers at 10 p.m. ET, followed by "Tucker Carlson Tonight" with 5.283 million.

Rachel Maddow was MSNBC's highest rated host for the night, delivering 4.033 million viewers. MSNBC's Chris Hayes had 2.791 million viewers and Lawrence O'Donnell registered 2.705 million.

On CNN, Anderson Cooper was the network's most-watched show with 2.061 million viewers, followed by "Cuomo Prime Time" with Chris Cuomo with 1.889 million.