Fox News Channel Has Big Ratings Month

Posted Aug 30, 2011 by Walt Belcher

Updated Aug 30, 2011 at 02:03 PM

Summer is usually a slow time for news but Hurricane Irene, the Casey Anthony trial and ongoing political developments have kept eyeballs glued to cable news outlets.

According to figures from Nielsen Media Research, August has been a good month for the Fox News Channel which has been averaging nearly 2 million viewers in prime-time.

So far this month FNC is the third most-watched cable network in primetime with CNN ranked 27 and MSNBC at 29.
In Primetime, FNC also is ahead of CNN and MSNBC combined in the 25-54 demographic.

FNC also logged a sweep of the top 13 programs in cable news based on total viewers. The network is up 11 percent in 25-54 over last summer.

  FOX News Channel’s nightly newscasts anchored – “FOX Report with Shepard Smith” and “Special Report” with Bret Baier are ranked are among the top 5 cable news programs for the month and both have double digit increases over Aug ‘10. 

  Top five cable news programs in total viewers include: The O’Reilly Factor (2,890,000); Hannity (2,082,000); Special Report (1,992,000); On the Record (1,817,000); and FOX Report (1,756,000).