Tucker Carlson’s First Two Weeks In Primetime Outstrip Megyn Kelly
On FNC
January 24, 2017 10:03am
Two full weeks into
hosting Fox News Channel’s 9 PM
timeslot, Tucker Carlson is
averaging 3.7 million viewers, 775,000 of them in the 25-54 news demo, topping
CNN and MSNBC in both metrics.
Tucker Carlson Tonight’s numbers also are 37%
higher in viewers and up 50% in the news demo compared with the 2016 average of Megyn
Kelly’s The Kelly File in
the 9 PM slot. Compared with Kelly’s performance in the same two weeks last
year, Carson is
up 95% in the demo and 46% in overall audience. That said, the same two weeks
last year did not include Donald Trump’s inauguration. But Carlson’s numbers
seem to make the point that FNC has managed to transition the timeslot after
Kelly’s very dramatic tenure and departure for NBC News without seeming to miss a beat.
Against Carlson’s
two-week average, CNN’s various programs logged 2M viewers and 633K news demo
viewers, while MSNBC’s The Rachel
Maddow Show logged 2.01M total viewers and 417K
news demo viewers.
Last week, January
16-22, FNC again dominated all basic cable networks in both total viewers and
in the news demographic in primetime (3.92M, 840K) and total day (2.48M,
522K). The week of Trump’s inauguration marked FNC’s highest-rated week since the 2016 election.
CNN (1.77M) was basic cable’s second-most watched network in
primetime, ahead of HGTV (1.65M), USA (1.53M) and Discovery (1.5M).
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