Ratings show Fox News viewers tuning out Jan. 6 hearings

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox Information Channel is airing the Jan. 6 committee hearings when they manifest in daytime hrs and a putting selection of the network’s viewers have produced very clear they’d rather be doing a thing else.

Throughout two daytime hearings previous week, Fox averaged 727,000 viewers, the Nielsen company stated. That compares to the 3.09 million who watched the hearings on MSNBC and the 2.21 million tuned in to CNN.

It absolutely flips the usual viewing sample for the news networks. For the duration of weekdays when the hearings are not getting area, Fox Information Channel routinely has extra viewers than the other two networks put together, Nielsen claimed.

Final Thursday, Fox experienced 1.33 million viewers for the 2 p.m. Japanese hour in advance of the hearing started off — a little underneath its 2nd quarter regular but on par for early summer season, when much less people are viewing Tv.

After the hearing started out, Fox’s audience’s sank to 747,000 for the 3 p.m. Japanese hour and even lessen, to 718,000, at 4 p.m. Fox slice absent from the listening to at 5 p.m. to show its preferred panel software, “The Five,” and fans quickly rewarded them: viewership shot up to 2.76 million men and women, Nielsen claimed.

The evident lack of interest points out why the commonly Trump-friendly network stuck with its normal lineup during the committee’s only prime-time listening to, although ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC all showed the Washington proceedings. “The Five” has also been cable television’s most-watched display, on normal, for 9 months.

ABC received the week in prime time, averaging 3.6 million viewers. CBS had 3 million, NBC had 2.5 million, Fox had 1.6 million, Univision had 1.1 million, Ion Tv experienced 1.04 million and Telemundo had 990,000 viewers.

Fox News Channel led cable networks with an normal viewership of 2.17 million in key time. MSNBC had 1.41 million, ESPN experienced 1.21 million, HGTV experienced 938,000 and Hallmark had 777,000.

ABC’s “World Information Tonight” gained the night news ratings race with an common of 6.6 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” experienced 6.1 million and the “CBS Night News” experienced 4.5 million.

For the week of June 20-26, the 20 most-watched application in key time, their networks and viewerships:

1. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 6.13 million.

2. “America’s Acquired Talent,” NBC, 6 million.

3. Stanley Cup Finals, Activity 6: Colorado at Tampa Bay, ABC, 5.82 million.

4. Stanley Cup Finals, Match 5: Tampa Bay at Colorado, ABC, 5.15 million.

5. “60 Minutes” (Sunday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 4.8 million.

6. Stanley Cup Finals, Sport 4: Colorado at Tampa Bay, ABC, 4.6 million.

7. Stanley Cup Finals, Recreation 3: Colorado at Tampa Bay, ABC, 4.1 million.

8. “FBI,” CBS, 3.82 million.

9. “The Rate is Right” (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 3.74 million.

10. “Stanley Cup Pregame” (Monday), ABC, 3.7 million.

11. “Stanley Cup Presentation,” ABC, 3.69 million.

12. “NCIS,” CBS, 3.58 million.

13. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 3.57 million.

14. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 3.49 million.

15. “The Price tag is Right” (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 3.47 million.

16. “Stanley Cup Pregame” (Friday), ABC, 3.27 million.

17. “Stanley Cup Pregame” (Wednesday), ABC, 3.262 million.

18. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Friday), Fox News, 3.255 million.

19. “Stanley Cup Pregame” (Sunday), ABC, 3.23 million.

20. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Thursday), Fox Information, 3.19 million.