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Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Trump Parade Boosts Fox News to Best Saturday Primetime Ratings Since First Assassination Attempt
Donald Trump's parade boosted Fox News to reach its best Saturday primetime ratings since the first assassination attempt against him in 2024. Coverage of the Army 250 Parade, which aired from 6 to 10 p.m. ET on Saturday, brought in 4.9 million total viewers and 700,000 viewers in the key cable demo among adults 25-54 on Fox News, and peaked with 5.5 million viewers during the 8 p.m. ET hour. Saturday, June 14, marked Fox News' highest rated Saturday in primetime since coverage of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania in July 2024. As expected, Fox News' coverage of the parade was the most-watched of all the cable news networks, with CNN scoring an average viewership of 1.1 million and MSNBC averaging 1.27 million viewers. In the demo, CNN brought in 222,000 viewers ages 25-54 while MSNBC scored 145,000 demo viewers. Both CNN and MSNBC's coverage peaked in the 6 p.m. hour with 1.24 million viewers and 1.39 million viewers, respectively, compared to the rest of the night. Fox News touted that the coverage scored over 3.4 million video views across live streams, shorts and VODs on YouTube, according to YouTube analytics, and scored 47.7 million video views and 4.6 million social media interactions, per Emplifi. While all three networks covered the parade, Fox news hosted a four-hour special hosted by Lawrence Jones and Emily Compagno, which featured commentary from Bret Baier and Lucas Tomlinson, among others. Cable news programming during the day on Saturday also spotlighted the nationwide 'No Kings' protest, which was crafted in response to the military parade, which took place on Trump's birthday. The post Trump Parade Boosts Fox News to Best Saturday Primetime Ratings Since First Assassination Attempt appeared first on TheWrap.
New York Times
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Trump's Military Parade Is Designed for TV, but It Won't Be on Every Channel
Fox News is airing an extensive four-hour special called 'Army 250 Parade.' CNN will carry the proceedings. And MSNBC is sticking with its usual liberal opinion shows. President Trump's military parade in Washington, celebrating the Army's 250 birthday and his own 79th, has the hallmarks of a made-for-TV event. The White House has hired an outside production company, Event Strategies Inc., which was responsible for some of Mr. Trump's Wrestlemania-style campaign rallies, and cameras will be rolling as 28 Abrams tanks and 6,700 soldiers process down Constitution Avenue. (Paratroopers will swoop in from above.) Cable news channels plan to cover the event along familiar lines. And America's three biggest television networks do not plan to carry the event live on their affiliates. Each had prior programming commitments that evening, although ABC, CBS and NBC say that coverage will be available digitally via their 24-hour streaming channels. At the time that Mr. Trump is scheduled to give remarks, CBS will be broadcasting a rerun of the comic procedural 'Elspeth,' NBC is set to air an episode of a game show called 'Password,' and ABC plans to carry the championship game of the UFL, a minor football league. The festivities are set to kick off at 6 p.m. Eastern and conclude roughly four hours later, after a country music concert and fireworks. Fox News has a full day of programming planned around the event, with appearances from several on-air personalities, including a few co-hosts of 'Fox & Friends.' (A former 'Friend,' Pete Hegseth, is now the defense secretary and has been closely involved in the parade.) Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
