NBC News Tops Primetime Viewership For Midterm Results, Per Latest Data

NBC News‘s midterm election night coverage topped major networks, drawing an average of 6.8 million viewers in primetime, according to the latest figures from Nielsen.

ABC News drew an average of 5.12 million, followed by MS NOW with 4.19 million, CNN with 4.17 million, Fox News with 4.08 million and CBS News with 2.73 million.

Overall, the six major networks drew about 27 million viewers, up from the 21.8 million who watched in 2022.

Fox News’ audience averaged 4.4 million when combined with Fox Business Network, which simulcast its coverage and drew 328,000.

Among other networks, Univision drew 1.63 million, Telemundo garnered 1.01 million, Newsmax averaged 539,000 and NewsNation posted 203,000.

In the 25-54 demo, NBC averaged 2.93 million, compared to 1.71 million for ABC, 1.56 million for CNN, 817,000 for Fox News, 776,000 for MS NOW, 771,000 for CBS, 591,000 for Univision, 388,000 for Telemundo, 79,000 for Fox Business Network, 68,000 for Newsmax and 51,000 for NewsNation.

A further update is expected on Thursday from Nielsen’s Big Data release.