Sean Hannity Sets Scores History As Fox News Dominates Coverage Of Kabul Assault

Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity experienced a terrific night Thursday, with Hannity offering an viewers of 5.221 million viewers—the show’s most significant audience of the year and quickly the most-watched prime time hour in all of cable information on the night.

The demonstrate featured a are living job interview with former President Donald Trump, who blamed President Biden for acquiring “no program of action in any way, no tactic, no improve in strategy” in Afghanistan, top to the attack at the Kabul airport that killed 12 U.S. service members. “”This tragedy must by no means have taken location. It should really hardly ever have took place,” Trump reported, “and it would not have happened if I had been your president.”

Hannity also dominated primary time between viewers 25-54, the crucial demographic most valued by advertisers, delivering an audience of 1.026 million viewers.

Total, Fox News Channel dominated key time on the news-hefty evening, with a complete prime time viewers of 4.636 million viewers, considerably forward of MSNBC (1.789 million viewers) and CNN (1.103 million viewers). In the key demo, FNC drew 891,000 viewers, with CNN (276,000 viewers) and MSNBC (256,000 viewers) significantly powering.

At 5 p.m. ET, when President Biden produced general public remarks about the Kabul airport attack, Fox News experienced its biggest viewers of the day, with a whole audience of 5.661 million viewers and 1.073 million viewers in the crucial demo—outdistancing not just the cable news opposition but all of broadcast news coverage as properly.

Behind Fox News was ABC Information (3.189 million viewers), CBS News (2.617 million viewers), CNN (1.781 million viewers) and MSNBC (1.614 million viewers). Scores for NBC Broadcast coverage in the hour was not promptly readily available.