{"id":898783,"date":"2026-10-29T13:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898783\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:46:12","slug":"fox-news-leads-cable-news-for-68th-straight-month-over-msnbc-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/898783\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News leads cable news for 68th straight month over MSNBC, CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fox News Channel\u2019s “The Five” maintained its status as the most-watched show in cable news during October. (FOX News Media)<\/p>\n

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Fox News Channel<\/a> maintained its viewership lead among cable news rivals throughout October, according to Nielsen Media Research data.<\/p>\n

The network reached an average of 1.1 million total day viewers Monday through Sunday, more than 50% of the share of the cable news audience and topping the combined audiences of MS NOW and CNN.<\/p>\n

MS NOW trailed in second place with 588,000 average total day viewers while CNN averaged just 402,000.<\/p>\n

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Fox News Channel led among cable news competitors during October, marking its 68th consecutive month over MS NOW and CNN. (Pavlo Gonchar\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Fox News commanded the lead in primetime as well, averaging 1.7 million total viewers. MS NOW came in second with 925,000 total viewers and CNN came in third with 598,000.<\/p>\n

October marked Fox News Channel’s 68th consecutive month leading in both daytime and prime-time viewership among the other cable news networks.<\/p>\n

“The Five”<\/a> maintained its status as the most-watched show in all cable news with 2.7 million total viewers, while “Jesse Watters Primetime<\/a>” also continued its streak as the most-watched cable news show in primetime with 2.3 million viewers.<\/p>\n

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“Special Report with Bret Baier<\/a>,” “Gutfeld!<\/a>” and “The Ingraham Angle<\/a>” rounded out the five most-watched shows among the cable news networks.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Fox News also continues to make great strides in the digital landscape. Throughout 2026, Fox News has collected more than 3.8 billion views on YouTube, making it the most-watched news brand on the platform, according to data from Emplifi.<\/p>\n

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Fox News has collected over 3.8 billion views on YouTube in 2026. (Mateusz Slodkowski\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox News Channel\u2019s “The Five” maintained its status as the most-watched show in cable news during October. (FOX…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,38592,67069,83050,92,9611],"class_list":["post-898783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-fox-news-media","tag-jesse-watters-primetime","tag-the-five","tag-tv","tag-tv-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898783","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=898783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}