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Fox News Draws Most Viewers for Presidential Forum

By Chris Ariens on Aug 19, 2008 10:32 AM

Fox News Channel beat its competitors Saturday night, as all three cable news networks aired the same programming from 8pm-10pmET: the Saddleback Presidential Forum.

Network	A25-54	Total Viewers
FNC	678,000	2,782,000
CNN	556,000	1,916,000
MSNBC	395,000	871,000

We'll have the hour-by-hour breakdown in the Scoreboard later this morning which will give us a look at which network gained, or lost viewers from the first hour (8p) to the second (9p).

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