ABC Has Most Broadcast News Viewers Election Night (While Fox News Had More)

The broadcast ratings are in, and ABC News had the most watched coverage overall among networks.

NBC finished 2nd in total viewers, followed by CBS. But in the A25-54 demographic, NBC finished 1st. Oh, and Fox News averaged more viewers than all the broadcast networks.

FNC hasn’t beaten all the broadcast news networks ever on an election night – and hasn’t done it on a single night since the 2004 conventions.

But when it came to broadcast, ABC’s won overall. Interestingly there was only one hour all of the big three networks were live at the same time – 10pmET. In that hour, NBC was #1, followed by CBS and ABC was 3rd. FOX broadcast network was a distant 4th.

ABC had the strongest lead-in last night, Dancing With The Stars.

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