

The viewership spike for cable news shows no signs of slowing down. Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC all saw double-digit ratings growth across the board for the second quarter of 2017, according to Nielsen data.



Driven by surges for “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell,” MSNBC is up a whopping 86% in total viewers in primetime compared to second-quarter 2016. CNN saw a 39% leap in adults 25-54 in total day. Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow” split the crown for most-watched cable news program in primetime, with Carlson winning in total viewers and Maddow taking the demo.

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a reply to: Konduit The FOX News viewers, at their average age, will be dead in a few years.On top of that, not fair to mix news channels with non news channels. I am surprised by MSNBC, it is sort of News Lite. But if this list was just news it would be FOX, MSNBC, CNN.Also, younger people watch news on the internet. I don't watch TV. I watch CNN on the internet. Youtube has channels dedicated to streaming it. FOX viewers don't know how to do that.These numbers a re more than off.Oddly, CNN is NOT dead. Far from it. But thanks to the OP for 'Fake News'.And I know most of you don;t like Rachel Maddow, but she is mainly responsible for putting MSNBC at #2.