Hard Numbers: ‘CNN News Central’ Returned To Programming; ‘60 Minutes Ranks’ As Third Most Popular Series

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Cable News Networks: CNBC saw an increase in its average weekly audience measurement, averaging a total of 141,000 viewers on Sunday, April 20, 2025. CNN, the 11th most popular channel on TV, peaked at 820,000 average viewers on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.

Fox Business Network, the 57th most popular channel in April, saw a monthly high of 135,000 viewers on Sunday, April 13, 2025. Fox News Channel, the fourth most popular show, garnered 3.556 million viewers on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.

MSNBC decreased to the eighth most popular show and peaked at an average of 1.846 million viewers on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. NewsNation ranked as the 53rd most viewed channel and peaked at 98,000 viewers on Sunday, April 13, 2025. Newsmax TV is ranked the 32nd most popular channel and peaked at 296,000 viewers on Sunday, April 13, 2025. 

Kate Snow, Morgan Radford, Zinhle Essamuah and Vicky Nguyen - NBC News Daily/NBC

News (Daily - Broadcast): ABC News Nightline peaked at 755,000 viewers on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. CBS Morning saw a huge increase in viewership, peaking at 2.435 million on Sunday, April 20, 2025. 

NBC News Daily peaked at an average viewership of 1.140 million viewers on Sunday, April 6, 2025. The 40th overall television show, Good Morning America, peaked at 2.778 million viewers on Sunday, April 6, 2025.

The Today Show peaked at 2.614 million viewers on Sunday, April 6, 2025. NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, the fifth most popular show, decreased its viewership to an average of 6.180 million viewers. 

Andrea Canning and Craig Melvin - Dateline/nbc

News (Weekend - Broadcast): Dateline NBC saw an average of 2.642 million viewers on Friday, April 25, 2025; Meet the Press with Kristen Walker saw a decrease in viewership, having a daily audience measurement of 2.321 million viewers on Sunday, April 6, 2025.

ABC’s 20/20 reached a high of 2.678 million viewers on Friday, April 18, 2025. 60 Minutes, the third most popular show, peaked at 9.626 million viewers on Sunday, April 13, 2025.

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News & Politics (Daily – Cable): Fox’s Faulkner Focus averaged 1.940 million viewers for April. CNN News Central returned to programming, averaging 307,000 viewers on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, the seventh most popular show on CNN, peaked with a viewership of 828,000 on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. 

CNN’s Laura Coates Live averaged 467,000 viewers on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. Fox’s Outnumbered saw a decrease in viewership with 2.037 viewers on Thursday, April 30, 2025. 

Ayman Mohyeldin - ayman/msnbc

News & Politics (Weekend — Cable): Ayman, the sixteenth most popular show on MSNBC averaged 558,000 viewers on Saturday, April 5, 2025. MSNBC’s PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton saw an increase in viewership, having 681,000 on Sunday, April 5, 2025. 

The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart peaked in viewership at 519,000 on Saturday, April 5, 2025. The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart averaged 511,000 viewers on Sunday, April 9, 2025.

DeMarco Morgan, Eva Pilgrim, & Dr. Darien Sutton - GMA3: What You Need to Know/abc

Talk Shows: GMA3: What You Need to Know, ABC’s 22nd most popular show, brought in an average of 1.334 million viewers on Sunday, April 6, 2025. The View peaked at 2.512 million views on Sunday, April 6, 2025. Today, the third hour on NBC peaked at 1.840 million viewers on Sunday, April 6, 2025. 

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