President-elect Donald Trump’s “dramatic candidacy catapulted the three cable news networks to their best year ever, with each outlet experiencing record-breaking numbers, according to year-end ratings from Nielsen Media Research,” Business Insider reports.
“In primetime, Fox News averaged 2.4 million viewers in 2016, making it the fifth-most-watched primetime network in all of television, behind only the big three networks and Fox… 2016 proved to be [CNN] most-watched year among total viewers… MSNBC experienced significant growth, outpacing its rival networks in total-day gains.”
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