Election evening rankings reveal which community got here out on prime | EUROtoday

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While Donald Trump and Kamala Harris battled it out for the presidency, a conflict was being fought within the shadows among the many networks attempting to attract in viewers to their election protection.

Millions of Americans had been glued to their TV units on Tuesday evening, watching the outcomes roll in, with one information channel trouncing its opponents within the rankings: Fox News.

Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum led the community’s primetime election protection on Democracy 2024garnering a median of 10.3 million viewers between 8pm and 11pm ET on Tuesday night, in accordance with Nielsen knowledge.

It marks the second consecutive election cycle the place Fox News – a Rupert Murdoch majority-owned, right-leaning community – raked in probably the most TV viewers on election evening.

MSNBC got here in second, with 6 million common viewers. It marks the primary time that MSNBC has topped CNN, with the community bringing in simply 5.1 million viewers – nearly half of its 9.6 million viewers within the 2020 presidential election.

ABC introduced in 5.7 million viewers, NBC 5.5 million and CBS 3.6 million.

Fox News’s viewers was nonetheless down from its report 13.8 million viewers through the 2020 election.

Overall, community rankings additionally plunged by about 25 p.c, with 42.3 million individuals tuning into Tuesday’s broadcasts throughout 18 networks – in contrast with 56.9 million final election cycle.

A shift away from linear tv in lieu of streaming companies and social media, significantly amongst these beneath the age of fifty, is believed to be blamed partly for the waning figures.

Fox News additionally topped YouTube’s live-streaming charts, amassing greater than 1.1 million streams at its peak on election evening, in accordance with knowledge from live-streaming database Streams Charts.

All-in-all, nearly 84 million hours of content material was streamed on-line for election protection on Tuesday, with greater than 80 p.c of views coming from YouTube, Streams Charts discovered.

MSNBC introduced that its YouTube channel had a record-breaking 30 million video views in a day on Tuesday.

As information retailers started declaring Donald Trump the winner on Wednesday morning, Fox News maintained its dominance within the rankings.

Fox – which was first to declare Trump the winner – stated it topped out at 7.4 million viewers through the 1am hour when its Decision Desk referred to as Pennsylvania for Trump, giving him the 270 Electoral College votes wanted to take the White House as soon as extra.

Other networks, newspapers and information companies referred to as the race for Trump in a while Wednesday morning.

“FOX News dominated every aspect of this historic election cycle,” Fox News Media’s CEO Suzanne Scott stated in a press release.

“From primary debates to town halls to being the only network to conduct interviews with all four candidates in both parties in a one-week span as Bret Baier helmed the most buzzed about interview of the race.”