1/2 Hour News Hour Top-Rated On Sunday

FNC’s new news satire 1/2 Hour News Hour was the top-rated program on cable news Sunday night.
The program averaged 215,000 in the demo and 929,000 total viewers at 10pm.

After two pilots earlier in the year, the first “season” of the show premiered on May 13 to an audience of 803,000 total viewers, with 176,000 in the demo. The tmeslot was up 88 percent in the demo versus the same day last year.

And based on Sunday’s numbers, it sounds like the show has staying power…

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