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Fox News draws big audience for final Kavanaugh vote

NEW YORK

The Senate’s vote confirming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sent viewers flocking to Fox News Channel, which recorded its biggest Saturday audience in more than a decade.

Fox’s daytime audience was bigger than any for the network since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, while its Saturday prime-time lineup eclipsed anything since the Iraq War in 2003, the Nielsen company said.

Kavanaugh’s victory after a lengthy confirmation battle benefited the network that’s a favorite of people friendly to his cause.

Fox reached 4.34 million viewers for the Senate vote. Rivals CNN and MSNBC combined had less than half of that audience, as many of Kavanaugh’s opponents clearly couldn’t stomach watching the vote.

For the week of Oct. 1-7, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NFL Football: Dallas at Houston, NBC, 18.59 million; NFL Football: Kansas City at Denver, ESPN, 13.54 million; NFL Football: Indianapolis at New England, Fox, 13.27 million; “Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 12.82 million; “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 12.3 million; “NCIS,” CBS, 12.13 million; “The OT,” Fox, 10.75 million; “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 10.69 million; “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 10.06 million; “The Voice” (Tuesday, NBC, 9.4 million.

Associated Press