Fox News Channel bested all TV news channels in terms of viewership during a key 4:45 to 6 p.m. time period last Thursday for its coverage of former President Trump's trial
verdict.
MSNBC was tops for the entire six-hour Thursday evening period of news and analysis.
The guilty verdict of former President Trump -- 34 felony counts of
falsifying business records -- broke at 4:48 p.m.
From 4:45 and 6 p.m, Fox News Channel averaged 4.4 million TV viewers, according to Nielsen measurement.
Between the 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. hour, Fox News averaged 4.7 million viewers. MSNBC and CNN were second and third -- 3.8 million and 2.6 million viewers, respectively.
Overall,
MSNBC posted the best broad six-hour time-period result on the night -- 5 p.m. and 11 p.m -- where it averaged 3.540 million viewers. Fox had 3.398 million and CNN had 1.745 million.
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MSNBC was
also best in the key adults 25-54 news viewer demographic, at 450,000. Fox was at 439,000 and CNN at 374,000.
During the traditional 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. primetime period, MSNBC
also topped the list with 3.4 million viewers, followed by Fox at 3.1 million and CNN at 1.3 million.
On broadcast TV, networks broke into its regularly scheduled programming with
Trump verdict news just before 5 p.m. ABC News had 3.3 million viewers for 102 minutes of coverage; CBS News, 2.5 million viewers for 71 minutes of coverage.