Fox News remained the highest-rated network in all of cable primetime during the week ending Aug. 14, with MSNBC passing CNN for the second straight week — and only the second time in all of 2016 — during the hours of 8-11 p.m.
MSNBC finished seventh overall in primetime, averaging over 1 million viewers, while CNN’s 723,000 average viewers placed it at No. 16 among all cable networks. MSNBC aired the Olympics, but not during primetime, returning to regular programing for “MTP Daily” at 5 p.m., well before the 8 p.m. official start of primetime.
Fox News actually beat MSNBC and CNN combined in primetime and has been the highest-rated cable network during the daypart in nine of the past 10 weeks.