Fox News Channel stayed hot on the ratings front during the first week of summer, securing its third-straight weekly win in primetime.
Fox News averaged 2 million viewers in primetime for the week of June 17 to 23, easily topping second-place ESPN’s 1 million viewers, according to Nielsen figures supplied by Fox News. MSNBC was third with 956,000 viewers, followed by HGTV’s 749,000 viewers and Hallmark Channel’s 660,000 watchers.
INSP finished sixth with 620,000 viewers, followed by USA Network (584,000 viewers), TBS (563,000), History (553,000), and Discovery Channel (510,000).
On a total-day basis, Fox News averaged 1.2 million viewers to top all cable networks for the 24th consecutive week, followed by MSNBC (672,000 viewers), ESPN (540,000), HGTV (400,000) and CNN (385,000), according to Nielsen.
