# Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch touts Fox News Channel success as ratings, advertising revenue thrive

### By  - Fox News

Published March 4, 2025 12:11pm EST

FOX Corporation Executive Chair and CEO  reminded investors on Monday that Fox News Channel regularly outdraws free broadcast networks despite being on cable.

Murdoch, speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, said great content and a loyal audience are critical when Morgan Stanley’s Head of U.S. Media Research Ben Swinburne asked how  would sustain its recent success and continue to grow distribution revenues over time.

> "Look, it comes down to great content, great journalism and a great brand ultimately. If you look at the Fox News viewer, they're incredibly loyal. They're passionate about the service. They really see it as not just as a news service but as a network for them. It's important to note that we don't see Fox News anymore as just a news service. We see it as one of the top five broadcast networks in the United States, even though we don't have the same distribution that broadcast has," Murdoch said.

Fox News Channel obliterated competitors in 2024, finishing the year with its highest share of the cable news audience since 2015. The network has finished No. 1 in cable news among both total day and primetime viewers for 23 years in a row.

Fox News Channel also started 2025 off with a bang, averaging the largest audience in the first two months of a year in cable news history while CNN and MSNBC both struggled. It was the network’s most-watched month of February of all time as Fox News finished with its third-highest share of the cable news audience since launching in 1996.

While Fox News has , it has also outdrawn a variety of free-TV options by averaging 3.9 million weeknight viewers in primetime since January to beat ABC, CBS, NBC.



_Brian Flood is a media editor/reporter for FOX News Digital. Story tips can be sent to_  _and on Twitter: @briansflood._

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