Fox News Leads 2024 Election Night Coverage Viewership While MSNBC Tops CNN For First Time Ever, But Overall Audience Deflates Once More

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Fox News Channel led the pack in primetime election coverage Tuesday night with 9.8M tuning in from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, according to early data from Nielsen.

However, this is a sharp decrease from the audience FNC drew in 2020, when nearly 14M watched, which seems to be the story across the board, as all linear TV channels struggled to capture as large of an audience as they did four years ago.

Nielsen hasn’t released its final numbers, which will detail just how many U.S. viewers watched Election Night coverage across nearly two dozen linear networks.

These numbers are based on early, in-home viewing data and are likely to go up across the board when Nielsen’s final numbers, which take out-of-home viewing into account, are available later Wednesday.