Week of Dec. 8 Cable News Ratings: CNN Grows

That is TVNewser’s fundamental cable community ranker and cable information report for the week of December 8, 2025.The highlight this week belonged to CNN, which was the one community to submit across-the-board features in primetime and whole day. As well as, the community skilled double-digit progress throughout primetime within the prized Adults 25-54 demo.In the meantime, Fox Information, which remained the most-watched cable community throughout whole day for the forty ninth consecutive week, was the one community to not see any whole viewer features throughout primetime, and MS NOW was the one community with Adults 25-54 declines throughout primetime and whole day.NETWORKS:In response to Nielsen large information + panel for the week of December 8, Fox Information averaged 2.003 million whole viewers and 179,000 A25-54 viewers throughout primetime. The community was down -4% in whole viewers however up +7% within the demo in comparison with the week prior (the week starting December 1). Fox Information averaged 1.311 million whole viewers and 113,000 A25-54 viewers in whole day viewing. Based mostly on its common for these measurements from the earlier week, it dipped by -5% in whole viewers however grew by +1% within the demo.Fox Information remained in second place in whole primetime viewership and moved from third to second in demo viewership amongst all fundamental cable networks. In whole day, it remained in first place in whole viewers and in second place within the whole day demo.MS NOW averaged 975,000 whole viewers and 79,000 viewers within the A25-54 demo for the week that simply concluded. The community was up +1% in whole viewers however declined by -1% within the demo in comparison with its common the week prior throughout primetime.Throughout whole day, MS NOW averaged 598,000 whole viewers and 49,000 demo viewers. This translated to losses of -2% in whole viewers and the demo in comparison with the community’s common the week prior.Amongst all fundamental cable networks, MS NOW continued to carry agency in third place in whole primetime viewers however dropped from No. 13 to No. 17 within the demo. It was additionally third in whole viewers and slipped from twelfth to thirteenth within the whole day demo, tied with HGTV. CNN averaged 527,000 whole primetime viewers and 80,000 A25-54 viewers within the demo throughout primetime for the week of December 8. The community was up +6% in whole viewers and +14% within the demo in comparison with the earlier week. In whole day, the community had 412,000 whole viewers and 55,000 viewers within the demo. This resulted in features of +4% in whole viewers and +6% within the demo throughout this daypart.Amongst all cable networks, CNN moved from sixth to fifth place in whole viewers and jumped from 18th to sixteenth within the demo throughout primetime. It remained in fifth place in whole day amongst whole viewers however dropped to No. 11 from No. 10 within the demo. When taking a look at these networks’ efficiency throughout the identical interval a 12 months in the past, measured by Nielsen panel information: Throughout primetime, Fox Information was down by -20% in whole viewers and -36% within the A25-54 demo. Throughout whole day, the community noticed decreases of -21% in whole viewers and -44% within the demo. MS NOW was up +65% in whole viewers and +61% within the demo. Throughout whole day, the community was up +35% in whole viewers and +29% within the demo. In primetime, CNN grew by +46% in whole viewers and +29% within the demo. Throughout whole day, it rose by +26% in whole viewers and +10% within the demo. PROGRAMMING:Fox Information had 12 out of the 15 spots of the most-watched cable information exhibits of the week, with The 5 on high with 3.349 million whole viewers at 5 p.m. ET. MS NOW was represented within the chart by three exhibits, led by The Rachel Maddow Present, which aired at 9 p.m. ET on Mondays, rating No. 8 with 1.682 million whole viewers.Gutfeld at 10 p.m. ET on Fox Information continued to be the highest present within the Adults 25-54 demo, averaging 260,000 viewers. Fox Information held 13 out of the 15 high spots within the demo, with MS NOW’s The Rachel Maddow Present, airing at 9 p.m. ET on Mondays, taking seventh place with 154,000 demo viewers.Prime Time Fox Information MS NOW CNN • Whole Viewers: 2,003,000 975,000   527,000 • A25-54: 179,000 79,000   80,000 Whole Day Fox Information MS NOW CNN • Whole Viewers: 1,311,000 598,000   412,000 • A25-54: 113,000 49,000   55,000 Week of 12-8-25 P25-54 Cable Ranker BDP by Adweek