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Tucker Carlson Breaks Record for Most-Watched of Any Cable News - Show in History

Posted: Oct 28th, 2020 - 5:37 am

With an average of more than 5.3 million people tuning in to his 8 p.m. Fox News show, Tucker Carlson just earned the distinction of having the highest-rated monthly viewership of any program in the history of cable news.

In addition to that new record, Tucker Carlson Tonight also took the number one spot in all of cable news across all viewership categories, with one million in the key news channel demographic of ages 25-54 and 670,000 in the 18-49 demographic, beating the CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell.

Tucker Carlson's program also became the first primetime show to reach one million viewers in the 25-54 demographic since September 2008, according to the Nielsen numbers.

Fox News also held the distinction of racking up more total viewers than every broadcast network and remained the number one network in all of television in primetime from Memorial Day to date. Additionally, the network took the number one spot in all of television in weekday primetime, with Carlson and Sean Hannity each outperforming ABC's The Bachelorette, The Conners, Celebrity Family Feud and NBC's The Weakest Link.

Along with just finishing with the 10th consecutive month this year that the network has finished number one in all of cable across primetime total viewers, FOX News is also currently riding a streak of 52 months in a row in the top spot across all of basic cable in total daytime viewers. Its daytime totals average 2.3 million viewers, which marks the second highest-rated total day viewership in the history of cable news, coming only behind Fox New's own coverage of the Iraq War in April 2003.

As impressive as Carlson's numbers were, Sean Hannity's viewership nearly matched it. Airing right after Carlson at 9 p.m. Hannity was the second most-watched program across the board with 5.1 million viewers--982,000 of which coming from the 25-54 age demographic and 657,000 in the 18-49 demographic.

The Ingraham Angle also made cable news history by becoming the highest-rated primetime program for a female host. In the 10 p.m. ET time slot, the show brought in over 4 million viewers and 760,000 in the 25-54 demographic. This made Laura Ingraham's program the most-watched cable news show in the 10 p.m. slot in history.

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Tucker Carlson Breaks Record for Most-Watched of Any Cable News - Show in History (Views: 450, 2020-10-28, 5:37 am)
- Go Tucker! He's doing what journalists should do. - People want to know what's going (Views: 269, 2020-10-28, 5:40 am)
- Tony Bobulinski Full Interview with Tucker Carlson - Oct 27, 2020 (Views: 290, 2020-10-28, 5:54 am)
  - Basically, Biden is running a money laundering protection - racket and the media is hiding it. (Views: 277, 2020-10-28, 6:36 am)
    - Oh, they're "resistance" all right - They're resisting being (Views: 280, 2020-10-28, 9:29 am)
  - An honorably discharged Naval officer, one who had the - equivalent of a top secret clearance (Views: 291, 2020-10-28, 6:43 am)
  - Video link now unavailable (no surprise there)! nm. - Just an observation (Views: 346, 2020-10-28, 12:14 pm)
    - But, can still pull it up and watch directly on YouTube nm. - Just an observation (Views: 272, 2020-10-28, 12:21 pm)
    - I'm surprised YouTube allows it at all. - :) (Views: 298, 2020-10-28, 1:44 pm)
- No wonder DemLiberal Fascists are - being consumed by the (Views: 468, 2020-10-28, 10:23 am)
  - Way to go Tucker! - me myself and I (Views: 269, 2020-10-28, 10:54 am)
  - Heard on the radio that not one of the alphabets carried - this story. An insider said they (Views: 267, 2020-10-28, 11:44 am)
- NOT NEWS - Tucker Carlson is entertainment - Walter Cronkite (Views: 267, 2020-10-29, 9:58 am)
  - Aw. You've just got 'em - wadded up because (Views: 289, 2020-10-29, 10:23 am)
    - All the evidence for this - "scoop" has disappeared (Views: 259, 2020-10-29, 10:45 am)
      - Only thing that disappeared is your cognitive ability - to assess facts (Views: 267, 2020-10-29, 12:36 pm)
  - Your posts are not factual - and should not be presented as such (Views: 269, 2020-10-29, 12:34 pm)
    - Carlson cannot be taken seriously - Walter Cronkite (Views: 257, 2020-10-30, 8:12 am)
    - ^^Your posts cannot be taken seriously^^ - You are too jealous of Tucker and his success (Views: 280, 2020-10-30, 3:19 pm)
  - Walter Cronkite was a leftist who was caught on mic - making fun of Republicans. (Views: 258, 2020-10-29, 1:34 pm)