Fox News Channel averaged 2.4 million viewers in Monday-Sunday prime time during the week of July 14 through 20, leading all broadcast and cable networks. It beat out NBC (2.17 million viewers), CBS (1.96 million viewers), and ABC (1.91 million viewers) to continue its summer reign.
Meanwhile, CNN underperformed at 498,000 viewers, behind Home and Garden TV’s 586,000.
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Amid CBS announcing its plans to retire the Late Show franchise, Fox News’s late-night television show Gutfeld! recorded dominating ratings for July 17 and 18.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the ratings for July 17 and 18 (the night Colbert was canceled and the following night) showed Gutfeld! beat Late Show with Stephen Colbert with 3 million total viewers and 2.8 million viewers, respectively. The second-quarter ratings also showed that of those numbers, 365,000 viewers were in the key age demographic of 25-54, with 262,000 the following night.
Greg Gutfeld’s program outpaced Colbert’s 1.96 million viewers the week CBS announced that The Late Show would be canceled. Gutfeld! was the first late-night program to unseat Colbert as the ratings leader since 2017, and has topped the program for three years straight.
Additionally, Gutfeld! reigned over ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1.06 million viewers), NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (991,000 viewers), and Late Night with Seth Meyers (706,000 viewers).
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Fox News Channel has been television’s highest-rated network all summer, topping competing broadcast and cable networks since Memorial Day in primetime with nearly 3 million viewers. Last week, the network commanded 62% of the prime time and total day cable news audience.
Moreover, the 24-hour all-encompassing news service has been the No. 1 network in basic cable for the last eight years, and the most-watched television news channel for more than 23 consecutive years. According to Nielsen Media Research, it attracts nearly 70% of the cable news viewing audience.