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Fox News Chief Political Anchor Bret Baier interviews Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. (Courtesy image)

Exclusive interviews and town hall conversations with the two leading candidates for the White House helped Fox News score the highest ratings of any cable news network in the United States, according to Nielsen figures.

The channel marked the 44th-straight month of being the leader in cable news with prime-time and total-day viewership, and with viewership in the key demographic of adults between the ages of 25 and 54 years old (A25-54), the group most-attractive to cable news advertisers.

In prime-time, Fox News saw an average audience of 2.8 million people tune in, including 359,000 in the A25-54 group, according to Nielsen. The average total day viewership in October was logged at 1.6 million viewers and 212,000 in the A25-54 group, Nielsen showed.

“The Five” continued its position as the most-watched cable news program during the weekday schedule,...

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Kamala Harris’ CNN town hall delivered solid ratings just under two weeks ahead of the 2024 election.

As Harris sat down with CNN’s Anderson Cooper to discuss the election’s most pressing issues, the town hall scored 3.33 million viewers, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day figures. The Wednesday event, which began at 9 p.m. Et and ran for approximately an hour and 11 minutes, also drew in 744,000 viewers in the key cable demo among adults 25-54.

Harris’ town hall ranked as the No. 1 most-watched program on cable among total viewers, and the No. 2 most-watched cable program in the key cable demo, behind only the NBA on ESPN.

The Harris town hall on CNN was up just slightly compared to Donald Trump’s women’s issues town hall last week, which scored 3.1 million...

When NBC News announced in January that Hallie Jackson, its senior Washington correspondent, would leave the anchoring duties she had held at MSNBC since 2016, some eyebrows rose. But NBC News was chasing something else on the rise: Digital audiences.

Since Jackson began anchoring a late-afternoon hour on NBC News Now in December 2021, a growing audience has sought her out. Viewership surged 108% over the course of a year. “You don’t see those numbers in many businesses,” says Janelle Rodriguez, the NBC News executive vice president who oversees the streaming outlet, in an interview. “When you see that level of audience increase, you know you are on to something,” On Monday, Jackson will double her time on her program, “Hallie Jackson Now,” to two hours, which means she will hold forth from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

NBC News Now is also on Monday expanding its evening lineup. Gadi Schwartz will...

Here’s something you don’t get to write every day. Fox News will be hosting a one-hour Democratic presidential town hall — or at least that’s how it’s being billed, as the event will be missing the party’s frontrunner, Hillary Clinton. The glorified sit down with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders takes place on Monday, Mar. 7th at 6 p.m. Et during an episode of “Special Report With Bret Baier.” It will be staged at the Gem Theatre in Detroit before an audience of Michigan voters just one day before the state’s primary. Also Read: Fox News...

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NEW YORK -- Vice President Dick Cheney's exclusive interview talking about his weekend hunting accident boosted Fox News' ratings Wednesday night. The channel's Washington managing editor, Brit Hume, scored the exclusive interview with Cheney, who had been roundly criticized after 24 hours elapsed before reporters found out that Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter Saturday afternoon at a Texas ranch. Special Report With Brit Hume averaged 2.1 million viewers from 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, when the interview with Cheney aired, according to data released Thursday by Nielsen Media Research. That included 513,000 viewers in the adults 25-54 demographic.