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Fox News host Sean Hannity has one of the highest ratings for cable news. Last week his ratings quintupled those of CNN’s “most-watched show.”

At the end of last year’s cable news rating, Adweek said, “Anderson Cooper 360 remained the network’s most-watched show, having averaged 868,000 total viewers in 2022.”

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At this time Hannity is attracting five times Cooper’s viewers. Cooper’s no.1 rating on CNN does not compare to that of Hanitty.

The Fox News show recently had 2.2 million total viewers compared to Cooper’s 441,000 viewers.

MSNBC’s Alex Wagner beat Cooper, attracting 1.34 million total viewers, coming in second place to Hannity.

Mediaite reported that “CNN struggled across primetime averaging only 438,000 total viewers and 91,000 viewers in the key 25-54 age demographic, significantly behind MSNBC and Fox News.”

They went on to say, Fox News averaged 1.64 million viewers for the day. Second-place MSNBC hit 824,000, with CNN having only 447,000 viewers.

The demographics showed that Fox News led with 215,000 viewers, followed by MSNBC with 92,000 and CNN with 90,000.

Mediaite stated that Fox News had an average of 2.22 million total viewers from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., with MSNBC having 135,000 and CNN showing 91,000 viewers. In the 25-54 demographics, the networks had 277,000, 135,000, and 91,000, respectively.

Hannity’s followers have been increasing in the last two years with him beating out Jake Tapper’s then-primetime show on CNN.

With Hannity’s present ratings, he is the longest-tenured primetime cable news host in TV history.

Adweek stated that Fox had nine out of the top 10 highest-rated cable news shows with “The Five” in the lead followed by “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” “Jesse Watters Primetime,” “Sean Hannity,” “Special Report with Bret Baier,” “The Ingraham Angle,” “Gutfeld!,” “Outnumbered” and “America’s Newsroom.”

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