That is TVNewser’s fundamental cable community ranker and cable information report for the week of Aug. 24, 2026.
MS NOW reported week-to-week positive factors in whole viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo throughout prime time and whole day. The community must be particularly happy with its primetime efficiency, because it was up by double digits in each measured classes.
In the meantime, Fox Information, which led all networks, was down within the primetime demo and in whole viewers and the demo throughout whole day. As for CNN, it shed whole viewers throughout whole day.
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In accordance with Nielsen large knowledge + panel for the week of Aug. 24, Fox Information averaged 2.027 million whole viewers and 169,000 A25-54 viewers throughout primetime. The community was up by +1% in whole viewers however had a -5% slide within the demo in comparison with the week prior (the week starting August 17).
Throughout whole day viewing, Fox Information averaged 1.257 million whole viewers and 104,000 A25-54 viewers. Based mostly on its common from the earlier week’s measurements, the community declined by -2% in whole viewers and -8% within the demo.
Fox Information continued to rank first in whole primetime viewership and dropped from third to fourth place in demo viewership amongst all fundamental cable networks. Throughout whole day, it additionally completed first in whole viewers and was No. 2 within the whole day demo.
MS NOW averaged 937,000 whole viewers and 80,000 viewers within the A25-54 demo for the week that simply concluded. The community grew by +10% in whole viewers and +21% within the demo in comparison with its primetime common the prior week.
Throughout whole day, MS NOW averaged 596,000 whole viewers and 56,000 demo viewers. It was up +4% in whole viewers and +17% within the demo in comparison with the community’s common the week prior.
Amongst all fundamental cable networks, MS NOW moved from third to second place in whole primetime viewers and was fifteenth within the demo. It additionally ranked third in whole viewers and climbed one spot to eleventh within the whole day demo.
CNN averaged 611,000 whole primetime viewers and 113,000 demo viewers. It gained +5% in whole viewers and +8% within the demo in comparison with the earlier week.
Throughout whole day, the community had 400,000 whole viewers and 61,000 viewers within the demo. CNN was down by -1% in whole viewers however grew by +2% within the demo throughout this daypart.
Amongst all cable networks, CNN completed sixth in whole viewers and dropped to eleventh from tenth within the demo throughout primetime. It remained at No. 4 in whole day amongst whole viewers and was No. 9 within the demo.
When these networks’ efficiency throughout the identical interval a 12 months in the past:
