‘Watters World’ makes splash in weekly debut

Jesse Watters’s debut of his weekly Fox News show, “Watters’ World,” got off to a strong start on Saturday, beating CNN and MSNBC programming combined by more than 700,000 viewers.

The 38-year-old Watters, who’s best known for sometimes-controversial man-on-the-street interviews for Bill O’Reilly’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” delivered 1.8 million total viewers in the 8 p.m. hour. Cable news rivals CNN and MSNBC clocked in with 616,000 and 392,000 viewers in the same hour, respectively.

Overall, “Watters’ World” delivered the second-highest audience ever for Fox News on a Saturday night.

{mosads}The show also performed well in the key 25–54 demographic most coveted by advertisers with 258,000 viewers compared to 195,000 for CNN and 149,000 for MSNBC.

“Watters’ World” originally debuted as a monthly program in 2016. The network announced last week it would be presented as a weekly offering.