NEW YORK—Fox News Channel said 7.8 million viewers watched “Special Report With Bret Baier’s” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (ET) on Oct. 16. About 1,126,000 of those viewers were in the 25-54 demo.
For the full 6 p.m. hour, ”Special Report“ drew 6.7 million viewers and 901,000 watchers in the 25-54 demo. Combined with the show’s midnight airing (6-6:30 p.m. ET and midnight-12:30 a.m. ET), Special Report’s interview with Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, nabbed 9.2 million viewers and 1.4 million in the 25-54 demo.
Fox News averaged more than 12 million viewers on Wednesday between all three airings of its interviews with vice president Harris (6 p.m. ET and midnight ET) and its town hall with the Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump (11 a.m.-noon ET).
Fox News said the network’s first formal interview with the vice president outdrew her appearance on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which averaged 5.7 million viewers; her CNN interview with Dana Bash, which nabbed 6.3 million viewers, Harris’ MSNBC interview with Stephanie Rhule, which posted 1.8 million viewers and 238,000 in the 25-54 demo; and appearances on ABC’s “The View,” which saw 3.1 million viewers and 357,000 in the 25-54 demo and CBS’s “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” which averaged 2.9 million viewers and 414,000 in the 25-54 demo.
