That is TVNewser’s primary cable community ranker and cable information report for the week of October 12, 2026.
Fox Information, MS NOW, and CNN completed the week with upward motion in whole viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo throughout primetime and whole day.
CNN moved previous MS NOW to reclaim the No. 2 spot throughout whole day. It was additionally the one community with double-digit positive aspects within the advertiser-coveted demo throughout the two dayparts.
On the programming entrance, Fox Information’ The 5 retook its first-place place from MS NOW’s The Rachel Maddow Present within the Adults 25-54 demo. MS NOW’s Monday-only 9 p.m. ET present was additionally the highest program in its timeslot in each measured classes. As well as, on Thursday, Oct. 15, MS NOW was the most-watched cable information community within the demo throughout primetime.
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Based on Nielsen massive knowledge + panel for the week of Oct. 12, Fox Information averaged 1.724 million whole viewers and 157,000 A25-54 viewers throughout primetime. The community was up +8% in whole viewers and within the demo in comparison with the prior week (the week starting Oct. 5).
Throughout whole day viewing, Fox Information averaged 1.1 million whole viewers and 98,000 A25-54 viewers. Primarily based on its common from the earlier week’s measurements, the community recorded positive aspects of +3% in whole viewers and +4% within the demo.
Fox Information remained in third place in whole primetime viewership and jumped two spots to fourth in demo viewership amongst all primary cable networks. Throughout whole day, it remained first in whole viewers and was in fourth place within the whole day demo.
MS NOW averaged 927,000 whole viewers and 93,000 viewers within the A25-54 demo for the week that simply concluded. This represented positive aspects of +3% in whole viewers and +6% within the demo in comparison with its primetime common the prior week.
Throughout whole day, MS NOW averaged 595,000 whole viewers and 60,000 demo viewers. It grew by +4% in whole viewers and +5% within the demo in comparison with the community’s common the prior week.
Amongst all primary cable networks, MS NOW remained in fifth place in whole primetime viewers and rose by two to land in thirteenth within the demo. It additionally ranked third in whole viewers and ninth within the whole day demo.
CNN averaged 628,000 whole primetime viewers and 115,000 demo viewers. It was up by +9% in whole viewers and +15% within the demo in comparison with the earlier week.
Throughout whole day, the community had 420,000 whole viewers and 68,000 viewers within the demo. For CNN, it grew by +7% in whole viewers and +21% within the demo throughout this daypart.
Amongst all cable networks, CNN remained in sixth place in whole viewers and rose from eleventh to seventh within the demo throughout primetime. It was No. 5 in whole day amongst whole viewers and eighth within the demo.
