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The following is the list of most watched television broadcasts in the United States by average viewership, according to Nielsen. Of the 30 most-watched telecasts, 27 are Super Bowls . The Apollo 11 moon landing is considered the most watched broadcasts of all time, with an estimated viewership of 125–150 million. [ 1 ]
MOST “NEWS” NETWORKS: This presidential year, the big story was the expanding dominance of Fox News, which was up a tremendous 30% in viewers to make it the fifth most-watched network in 2024 ...
Although the Apollo 11 Moon landing is considered as the most watched television event in American history, it is considered a news event, meaning that CBS's live telecast of Super Bowl LVIII in 2024 holds the record for the largest average viewership of any live network U.S. television broadcast, with 123.7 million viewers.
Fox News marked its 15th year as the highest-rated cable news channel in the same demographic, posting 2.8 million average total viewers in January 2017. MSNBC beat CNN in total primetime viewers, ranking sixth among all cable networks in January. CNN beat MSNBC, but trailed to the first place Fox News Channel, in total daytime viewers. [14] [2 ...
Networks no longer included in this year’s tally — because they either shut down or no longer rated — include Olympic Channel, Fuse, NBC Sports Network, Black News Channel, G4 and Pursuit ...
The most-watched, non-Fox News program to air on cable news during the month of December was MSNBC’s "The Rachel Maddow Show," which managed 1.4 million total viewers on Dec. 9 to finish as the ...
On June 1, 1980, Ted Turner launched CNN, the first 24-hour cable news operation, and sister channel Headline News followed in 1982. CNN gained reputation significantly with its 1991 coverage of the Gulf War. The success of CNN inspired many other 24-hour cable news stations. In 1996, Fox News and MSNBC were launched to compete with CNN.
The final broadcast of CNN’s long-running “Reliable Sources,” a show that examines the media industry and has aired on CNN for about three decades, was the most-watched program on the ...