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    Fox News tops cable ratings in 2018 while entertainment channels lost viewers to streaming

    by Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times Dec 28, 2018 4 minutes

    President Trump kept cable news on a ratings roll in 2018. But online streaming services continued to cut into audience levels for general entertainment cable networks such as USA, FX and Lifetime, according to year-end data from Nielsen.

    While consumers have grown accustomed to time-shifting their favorite scripted dramas and comedies, cable news presents the ongoing saga of the Trump presidency live. Viewers have remain hooked on each unpredictable chapter since the 2016 campaign.

    Fox News was the most-watched cable network for the third consecutive year, with a record high average of 2.5 million viewers in prime-time, up 2 percent from 2017. Only the four major broadcast networks had larger audiences

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