{"id":274193,"date":"2025-11-06T01:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274193\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:49:09","slug":"msnbc-draws-most-network-viewers-to-off-year-election-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274193\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Draws Most Network Viewers To Off-Year Election Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/msnbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_msnbc_1\" data-tag=\"msnbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a> was the most-watched network for coverage of the off-year elections on Tuesday, with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cnn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cnn_1\" data-tag=\"cnn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> prevailing in the 25-54 demo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMSNBC drew 3.04 million total viewers, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fox-news\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fox-news_1\" data-tag=\"fox-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> with 2.85 million and CNN with 1.78 million.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/newsom-prop-50-lawsuit-republicans-1236608016\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/prop-50-.jpg\" alt=\" California Proposition 50\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/2025-election-analysis-democrats-1236607738\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Zohran-Mamdani-and-Gavin-Newsom.jpg\" alt=\"Zohran Mamdani and Gavin Newsom\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the 25-54 demo, CNN averaged 574,000, followed by MSNBC with 490,000 and Fox News with 448,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe evening marked a rare win for MSNBC over Fox News, which has dominated primetime for years and won total viewers and the demo last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Election Night coverage marked the first time that MSNBC topped Fox News in total viewers and the demo since August 22, 2024, during the Democratic National Convention, the network said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/prop-50-results-california-newsom-1236606720\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236606720\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Newsom\u2019s Prop 50 Redistricting Gamble Pays Off With Big Win &amp; 2028 POTUS Pole Position<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMSNBC is <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/msnbc-rebrand-ms-now-1236598210\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236598210\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preparing to rebrand as MS Now<\/a> on Nov. 15, as Comcast spins off its cable networks into a new company, Versant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith NBC News no longer a sister network, MSNBC for the first time sent its own reporters to states with major races, including in New Jersey, Virginia, New York, California and Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ratings\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ratings_1\" data-tag=\"ratings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ratings<\/a> figures are from Nielsen via MSNBC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MSNBC was the most-watched network for coverage of the off-year elections on Tuesday, with CNN prevailing in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[15284,5109,88,11320,35966,25572,92],"class_list":["post-274193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-cnn","tag-electionline","tag-entertainment","tag-fox-news","tag-msnbc","tag-ratings","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}