Fox News had the highest ratings in cable news for President Joe Biden’s Thursday night primetime address, according to Nielsen Media Research ratings data.
From 8 to 8:30 p.m. ET, while the president spoke to the nation about the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News pulled in an average of 4 million viewers — 613,000 of whom were in the advertiser-coveted age demographic of 25 to 54.
CNN was in third place overall with 2.729 million total average viewers, but came in first in the demo with 667,000. MSNBC had the second-highest total average viewers during the half hour, 2.982 million, but was in distant third place in the demo with only 395,000.