MSNBC won during the one hour of Monday night’s Democratic National Convention that all three major cable news networks took the events live, according to Nielsen Media Research.
During the 10 p.m. ET hour into 11:15 p.m., MSNBC brought in an average of over 5 million total viewers, of whom 1,008,000 were in the advertiser-coveted age demographic of 25 to 54. CNN was next in total viewers with 4.7 million but won in the key demo with 1,496,000. During that time, Fox News took in slightly over 2 million total average viewers. Of those, 438,000 were in the demo.
MSNBC’s win came after it took second place last time around.