
Fox News Channel was most-watched network during live coverage of astronauts' return to Earth
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A whopping 5.3 million viewers turned to Fox News Channel for its breaking news coverage of SpaceX's successful rescue mission of astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.
That was much higher than the audiences of the three broadcasting networks. CBS trailed with 2.9 million viewers, followed by ABC's 1.8 million and NBC's 1.1 million. Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.
Additionally, Fox News crushed its liberal cable news competitors in both total viewers and in the advertiser-coveted demographic ages 25-54. CNN and MSNBC virtually tied in total viewers with less than 1.2 million and just 181,000 and 90,000 in the key demo respectively, far below Fox News' 606,000 average in the timeslot.