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Fox News Channel dominated cable and rivalled broadcast networks in the second quarter of 2026, averaging 1.6 million total-day viewers — the only basic cable network to clear the one-million mark — while capturing nearly 60% of cable news viewership across both total day and primetime.
The network's primetime average of 2.5 million viewers extended its unbroken run atop cable ratings to 98 consecutive quarters, a streak dating to the first quarter of 2002.
Gap Widens Across Cable Competition Fox News's margin over rivals stretched sharply in Q2.
ESPN finished a distant second in total-day viewership with 664,000 average viewers, followed by MSNBC at 655,000 and CNN at 496,000.
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