Bolstered by coverage of the July 13 attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the cable news networks — led by Fox News Channel — finished last week at the top of both the primetime and total-day cable ratings charts.
Fox News was the most-watched network for the week, with an average of 3.8 million viewers — the network’s most-watched week since the November 2020 election, according to Nielsen numbers supplied by Fox News. The network set a weekend ratings high with 6.9 million viewers with its coverage of the shooting at a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania in which the former president was injured.
MSNBC finished second in primetime with 1.1 million viewers, followed by CNN with 1 million viewers.
FS1’s Copa America and Euro 2024 soccer tournament coverage helped the network finish fourth for the week with 824,000 viewers, followed by Hallmark Channel’s 744,000 viewers and HGTV’s 706,000 watchers. INSP was seventh for the week with 631,000 viewers, followed by USA Network (595,000), Discovery Channel (593,000), and History (521,000).
Fox News blew out the competition on a total-day basis, averaging 2 million viewers, followed by MSNBC (691,000 viewers), CNN (563,000), ESPN (483,000) and Hallmark Channel (415,000), according to Nielsen.
