Fox News ratings surge in first quarter of 2025 with help from The Five and Special Report

Published April 2, 2025 7:59pm ET



Fox News notched its strongest ratings quarter ever during the first three months of 2025, with two of its shows drawing in particularly large viewership numbers.

The channel ended its first quarter of the year making cable news history with 2.2 million weekday viewers. It also garnered 3.6 million prime-time viewers from the 8 p.m. through 11 p.m. time frame, outpacing rival cable news networks NBC and ABC, which each got 3.1. million viewers in the same time frame. Additionally, this first quarter saw Fox News attain its highest quarter cable news share, with 65% of cable TV audiences tuning into the network in total daytime and 66% tuning in during prime time, according to data from Neilsen Media Research.

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