Fox News finished 2022 as the most-watched cable network in all of television for the seventh straight year as 'The Five' made history by finishing as the top show.
to finished as cable news’ most-popular program despite airing well before the primetime hours that traditionally dominate viewership. It was the first time a program that begins outside the coveted 8-11 p.m. ET primetime window has achieved the top spot. to finish second, while"Jesse Watters Primetime" averaged 2.9 million to finish third."Hannity" averaged 2.8 million to finish fourth and"Special Report with Bret Baier" averaged 2.
The 10th spot went to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Alex Wagner, who have shared the liberal network’s 9 p.m. ET hour ever since the"Rachel Maddow Show" namesake decided earlier this year she would only work on Mondays, leaving Wagner to host the remaining four nights. FOX NEWS MEDIA HONORS SPOTLIGHT AWARD WINNERS, PAYS TRIBUTE TO PIERRE ZAKRZEWSKI
The most-watched program on beleaguered CNN was"Anderson Cooper 360," which managed only 868,000 average nightly viewers to finish No. 23 among cable news offerings. CNN has struggled to find an identity since a long-planned merger put it under the control of the newly former Warner Bros. Discovery earlier this year. The network has since scrapped its much-hyped streaming service, laid off hundreds of employees and failed to find a permanent replacement for the 9 p.m.