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CNN, Fox split New Year’s Eve wins

by Joe Concha - 01/03/17 9:04 AM ET

Both CNN and Fox News closed out 2016 with big ratings nights.

Fox won a close race for total viewers for its broadcast from Times Square, while CNN was victorious in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic.

From 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Saturday night, Fox averaged 1.98 million viewers, edging out CNN’s 1.90 million, according to Nielsen Research.

{mosads}Fox’s “All-American New Year” was hosted by Eric Bolling, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Jesse Watters and Lisa Montgomery Kennedy — best known as Kennedy.

CNN’s “New Year’s Eve Live” — with anchors Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon and Brooke Baldwin, along with comedian Kathy Griffin — saw its highest ratings in the history of the network’s New Year’s Eve broadcasts, particularly in the age demographic.

In the 25–54 category, the network averaged 768,000 viewers, a 24 percent increase from 2015. Fox registered 506,000 in the category. MSNBC did not have a New Year’s Eve broadcast, with the NBC network instead carrying live coverage, as it has in previous years.

Ratings for broadcast networks ABC, NBC and Fox will be available later Tuesday.

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