CNN's Chris Cuomo secures network's top ratings — but still lags behind Fox News and MSNBC

Chris Cuomo.
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Fox News is still the undisputed king of cable news.

Fox handily beat the competition with an average of 1.4 million viewers during the day and 2.4 million overall during primetime over the past three months, per Nielsen Media Research. But MSNBC is creeping up, averaging 930,000 viewers in the day and 1.7 million in primetime during the second quarter of 2018. That's a jump for the liberal-leaning network, but not enough to come close to toppling Fox from its 66-month tenure at the top.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.