
Among the big three cable news networks, Fox Corp.’s (NASDAQ:FOXA) right-leaning Fox News continues to reign in the ratings, leaving its left-leaning rivals, Comcast Corp.’s (NASDAQ:CMCSA) MSNBC and Warner Bros. Discovery’s (NASDAQ:WBD) CNN lagging behind.
At the end of the first quarter, Nielsen reported Fox News averaged 2.86 million viewers for primetime programming, up 19% from the same month one year earlier, while MSNBC averaged 1.28 million, down 29% from the previous year, and CNN averaged 1.22 million, a 1% bump-up.