Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld hosts two shows that are currently dominating in the cable news ratings.
AdWeek reported, “Fox News Channel had the most-watched shows on cable news, not only in the total audience but among the key A25-54 demographic.”
“The Five marked yet another month at No. 1 in average total viewers, averaging nearly 3.28 million total viewers in the 5 p.m. hour during May 2022. The panel news-talk program averaged the second-largest A25-54 audience on cable news (447,000), according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data,” the report added.
Gutfeld hosts Fox News’ “The Five” and also hosts his weekend late-night show “Gutfeld!”.
Here is a list of the 10 most-watched cable news shows for May 2022, reported from AdWeek:
Fox News | 5 p.m. / The Five: 3,279,000 / 25 telecasts
Fox News | 8 p.m. / Tucker Carlson Tonight: 3,233,000 / 22 telecasts
Fox News | 9 p.m. / Jesse Watters Primetime: 2,646,000 / 17 telecasts
Fox News | 6 p.m. / Special Report with Bret Baier: 2,475,000 / 25 telecasts
Fox News | 10 p.m. / The Ingraham Angle: 2,256,000 / 23 telecasts
Fox News | 11 p.m. / Gutfeld!: 2,001,000 /. 23 telecasts
MSNBC | 9 p.m. / The Rachel Maddow Show: 1,950,000 / 9 telecasts
Fox News | 12 p.m. / Outnumbered: 1,774,000 / 26 telecasts
Fox News | 9-10 a.m./10-11 a.m. / America’s Newsroom: 1,709,000 / 50 telecasts
Forbes reported:
Like the way CNN is all but guaranteed to remain a favorite punching bag for Fox News Channel’s late-night host Greg Gutfeld, whose 11 pm show “Gutfeld!” Has been a rating powerhouse since its launch in a little over a year ago now. Monday, by the way, was an important day for Gutfeld as well, marking the debut of a newer, expanded studio for his show–the second-most-watched late-night program in all of broadcast and cable.
In fact, you could argue that at least some of Gutfeld’s success (an average of almost 2 million viewers in April alone, topping Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon) is best understood within the context of missteps and ratings decline at CNN. To say nothing of the ideological like-mindedness across most of the late-night landscape.
Greg Gutfeld told Forbes, “People don’t go to entertainment for homework. You don’t pay for homework. And it feels like there’s been this modern kind of woke culture where everything is being informed with a lesson you have to learn–it’s like, I don’t need to be lectured. I don’t come here to be told how this is oppression and I have to, like, learn about these things. I came to be entertained.”
“If you’ve been watching my stuff, I spend a lot of time talking about media. Because I know the internal flaws of it. The Gutfeld show became successful, because it came at exactly the right time,” he said.
“My show is deliberately surreal and absurd, because I’m absurd. I call it the Dean Wormer effect. Dean Wormer was the bad guy in “Animal House” and was always kind of the hood ornament of what a Republican was, and everybody else has fun, right?… My goal was always to flip that. So that we’re the people having fun, and the left, Democrats, are the scolds. You see that now, with even Bill Maher saying, my god, my side is humorless and the other side is having fun.”
that the only TV station I watch, you know they are telling the truth.
What about Hannity ratings?
I don’t watch tv but I do watch gutfeld.
Weekend should be weekday.