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The late-night ratings picture in 2025 remains led by CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which averaged about 2.42 million viewers in Q2 2025, followed by Jimmy Kimmel Live! at roughly 1.77 mil...
Fox News was the largest U.S. cable news audience in 2025, regularly drawing well over 2 million primetime viewers in monthly and quarterly tallies (e.g., 2.334–3.091 million in sample months) and sec...
Fox News remained the clear ratings leader through most of 2025, often drawing multiple millions in primetime and outperforming MSNBC and CNN in both total viewers and the advertiser-coveted Adults 25...
Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night program averaged , according to figures attributed to Disney and Nielsen, and a high-profile comeback episode drew amid unusual scheduling circumstances that left . The only ...
Since its debut in January 2003, Jimmy Kimmel Live! moved from regularly drawing multi‑million linear TV audiences in its early years to a much smaller but still competitive late‑night audience by the...
A contemporary snapshot compiled from industry trackers shows traditional broadcast networks — led by NBC, ABC and CBS — still occupying the top slots by total audience, while Fox (as a broadcast bran...
Fox News’ audience is older than the general TV population and concentrated in middle-income households, but precise age and income slices vary across studies and over time; . Network and Nielsen mate...
Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s 2025 ratings picture is mixed and contested: measured declines in early 2025 and industry-wide erosion of late-night audiences contrast with episodic spikes tied to controversy an...
Most surveys and rankings identify a set of repeat names as the most popular right‑leaning U.S. news sources: Fox News (especially for cable), Breitbart, Newsmax, Tucker Carlson Network, and newer dig...
Tucker Carlson’s controversies produced sharp, immediate shifts in linear cable viewership after his Fox News exit, but the evidence shows a contested trajectory: large short-term ratings losses for h...
Jimmy Kimmel’s 2024 audience trailed Stephen Colbert’s by a clear margin across multiple tallies, while Jimmy Fallon generally ranked third; 2024 averages put Colbert at roughly 2.4–2.6 million viewer...
Jimmy Kimmel Live! averaged roughly 1.7–1.9 million viewers in mid‑2025 quarters, behind Stephen Colbert’s Late Show (about 2.4 million) but ahead of or competitive with Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show in...
Fox News’ Gutfeld! has repeatedly posted than legacy network late-night shows in several recent snapshots, but the lead varies by timeframe, demographic, and single-night spikes; Nielsen-style monthly...
A consistent body of recent surveys and audience-measurement reports shows , but experts and outlets disagree on precise median-age figures and emphasize political polarization around its trust and us...
Fox News finished 2025 as the clear ratings leader among cable news channels, averaging roughly between 2.65–2.72 million primetime viewers and a mid-to-high 200,000s Adults 25–54 demo, while CNN and ...
Greg Gutfeld’s prime-time audience is substantial and skews Republican overall but is than typical cable-news late-night counterparts; Nielsen MRI Fusion and network-released ratings show strong Repub...
Recent ratings snapshots for Q2 2025 show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert led the traditional 11:35 p.m. broadcast late‑night hour with about 2.42 million average viewers, followed by Jimmy Kimmel ...
The central claim — that age demographics of Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC viewers have shifted over the past decade — is supported by multiple, recent data points showing a clear pattern: . Major surveys ...
Viewership differences among ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox News are driven by age, partisan identity, and program type: NBC has recently led the advertiser-coveted 18–49 group (Nielsen 4.8 rating), Fox often ...
Recent Nielsen-based reporting shows Fox News has frequently outpaced the three broadcast networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) in weekday primetime during 2025, but the relative ranking depends on the exact time ...