U.S. cable news: number of primetime viewers 2017-2023
In 2023, the leading cable news network in the United States was Fox News. The network had an average of 212 thousand primetime viewers in the primetime demo (adults aged 25 to 54 years old) in that year, once again outperforming MSNBC and CNN by a significant margin. That said, 2023 marked the first time Fox News saw its ratings fall below 300,000.