The notes are there, and Fox News is officially the winner of the 2024 election, TheWrap has exclusively learned. From November 4 to 10, the network was the No. 1 network in all of television among weekday prime-time viewers, beating both its cable and broadcast competitors.

During weekday prime-time ratings, which are watched from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, Fox News Channel averaged 5.4 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings. Fox News was followed by ABC, which led the broadcast networks with an average of 4.9 million viewers. As for CBS and NBC, they both averaged 4.1 million viewers.

Overall, Monday through Sunday, Fox News reported an average of 2.6 million viewers and 472,000 for the 25-54 demo. This is Fox News’ best week in both prime and prime time since November 2020. Overall, the network had 60% of the cable news audience share , both daytime and prime time, compared to 16% for CNN and 21% for MSNBC.

Across the week, in prime time Monday through Sunday, Fox News averaged 4.3 million viewers and 872,000 in the demo. In comparison, during the same period, MSNBC averaged 1.58 million viewers as well as 356,000 viewers in the demo.

MSNBC’s audience decline is nothing new. From from Wednesday to Friday lastthe network saw a 54% decrease in average network audience compared to October (1.765 million viewers) as well as a 51% decrease in network average since the start of 2024 (1.655 million viewers).

Fox News’ high average was bolstered by the network’s stunning election night performance in which the network saw 10.3 million total viewers and 3.1 million viewers in the demo. In fact, on Election Day, Fox News Media saw nearly 13.6 million viewers and 4.4 million in the 25-54 demographic demo on Fox News Channel, Fox Network, Fox Business Network and Fox News Digital. Led by “Special Report” host Bret Baier and “The Story” anchor Martha MacCallum, the network’s coverage peaked at 10 p.m. ET with 10.8 million viewers and 3.3 million in the demo.

These high numbers continued on several Fox News shows. “Gutfeld!” ,” “The Five,” “The Faulkner Focus” and “America Reports” all had their highest-rated weeks on the network since their launch. “Gutfeld!” » saw 3.8 million viewers and 627,000 in the demo. During the week, it beat the averages of CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (2 million) and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” » from ABC. (1.7 million) and NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (1.2 million). It should be noted that “Gutfeld!” ” airs at 10 p.m. ET while “The Late Show,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and premiere of “The Tonight Show” at 11:35 p.m. ET. And also “Gutfeld!” » is one show on the cable network while the other three are on the broadcast networks. It’s all to be seen, it’s not a perfect match between the notes of apples and apples.

“The Five” attracted 5.3 million viewers, while “The Faulkner Focus” and “America Reports” averaged 3 million and 2.8 million viewers, respectively. “The Faulkner Focus” and “Outnumbered” also averaged higher audiences than ABC’s “The View.”