FNC Rules Cable News As Dems Deliver Tuesday Election Wins And Donald Trump Touts Golf Course In South Korea

Fox News Channel topped cable news networks in total viewers and the news demo Tuesday, when President Donald Trump delivered his golf-club-plugging address to the South Korean National Assemble and Democrats took key elections in Virginia and New Jersey.

Guess which story FNC focused on? Sean Hannity spent a whopping six seconds — that’s seconds — discussing the Dem electoral wins in those two states, according to Politico’s stopwatch.

MSNBC topped CNN in primetime and full day (6 AM-2 AM) on Tuesday, in both metrics.

In primetime, FNC logged 3.14M viewers and 684K news-demo viewers; MSNBC averaged 2.53M and 653K, respectively; while CNN tallied 1.52M and 562K.

In full day, FNC’s 2.03M and 416K topped MSNBC’s 1.36M and 320K as well as CNN’s 901K and 298K.

Rachel Maddow’s 9 PM program was MSNBC’s most watched of the day, logging 2.76M viewers of whom 695K fell in the key 25-54 age bracket. Anderson Cooper, also in the 9 PM hour, was that network’s most watched program with 1.563M viewers including 560K in the age bracket.

But Hannity’s FNC show – still same slot – topped the pack. Hannity clocked 3.57M viewers of all ages, of whom a slot dominating 786K fell into the key demo.