Fox News Channel outdraws CNN, MSNBC during election week

Fox News averaged 1.4 million total day viewers to finish No. 1 among all cable offerings during the week of November 3. 

Fox News was the only cable network to surpass the one-million viewer benchmark as MSNBC finished second with an average audience of 695,000, followed by ESPN with 637,000. CNN managed only 487,000 average viewers. 

When it comes to the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults age 25-54, Fox News averaged 132,000 total day viewers and 220,000 during primetime to top CNN and MSNBC in both categories. 

Fox News' election night coverage also outdrew NBC in 23 of the top 25 markets, including New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. 

"The Five" averaged 3.6 million viewers to finish No. 1 in cable news during the significant news cycle, while "Hannity" took the demo title with 311,000 viewers from the coveted group. 

In fact, "Gutfeld!" averaged 2.6 million viewers to outdraw CBS' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and NBC's "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon." 

Fox News also saw strong performances from "The Will Cain Show," "America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino," "Outnumbered," "The Faulkner Focus," Martha MacCallum's "The Story" and "America Reports with John Roberts and Sandra Smith," which all had larger audiences than NBC's "Today with Jenna and Friends" and "NBC News Daily."

Kayleigh McEnany's "Saturday in America" averaged 1.4 million viewers to finish as the No. 1 show on Saturday and Maria Bartiromo's "Sunday Morning Futures" took the Sunday crown with 1.5 million viewers.