MSNBC’s primetime audience has dipped 53% since the week before the election, according to new Nielsen ratings data, a steep dropoff for the left-of-center network rivaled by a 47% drop by CNN—while Fox News has largely held onto its audience since President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.

The Hallmark Channel is now pulling higher numbers than both CNN and MSNBC. Ratings for the left-leaning cable news network MSNBC have gone into the tank, with viewership plummeting by nearly half in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election.

As of Tuesday morning, Fox News commanded 62 percent of total day viewership in the month of November and 73 percent of viewership in the days following the November 5 election, N

MSNBC’s audience has tanked since the election. The liberal network’s viewership is down by 47 percent overall since Nov. 5 and by 52 percent during primetime, the latest Nielsen ratings show. Morning Joe’s numbers had already fallen by 38 percent after hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski flew to Mar-a-Lago to extend an olive branch to president-elect Donald Trump.

M SNBC’s primetime audience has dipped 53% since the week before the election, according to new Nielsen ratings data, a steep dropoff for the left-of-center network riv

Prime time has gotten ugly for MSNBC. The struggling news network has lost more than half of its audience since Election Night, as viewers have fled MSNBC after Donald Trump won his second White House term earlier this month against Kamala Harris.

When Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr. mused this week about Musk buying MSNBC, they made reference to the network's poor ratings as of late. A week after the US election, the New York Times reported that MSNBC had seen a 39% decline in viewers from October.