As far as total day averages went, the network had a surprisingly impressive 1.72 million viewers, which was up 28% compared to the scandal-heavy 2016 at the same time; those numbers were more than double what MSNBC and CNN earned.
The close-to-key demographic of adults 25-54 years old was 362,000 strong, which was itself a 34% boost.
As you might have imagined, Bill O’Reilly came out smelling sweeter than anyone else, as his O’Reilly Factor earned an average of nearly 4 million viewers for the quarter, which is the highest total-viewer average of any cable news program that has ever existed.
And that’s not just in the primetime hours or for a random mid-afternoon slot; from 6:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m., Fox News racked up its biggest crowds ever.