The 2016 election ratings bonanza concluded last week, and Fox News went out with a bang. The network posted its highest ever week of ratings over the five-day period from Monday through Friday.

The Fox News total day audience averaged 3,378,000 — putting the network more than a million viewers ahead of its nearest competitor, CNN. (Fox News also edged out CNN in viewers among the key 25-54 demographic — 1,001,000 to 941,000.)

And in primetime, Fox News posted a staggering 6,003,000 viewers, besting CNN, which came in second with 4,315,000. (CNN was tops in the key demo, scoring 1,908,000 average viewers to Fox News’s 1,839,000.)

The numbers, of course, include the incredible audience totals from election night. Fox News’s coverage that night was the most watched on television — even including the broadcast networks — with 12.2 million viewers. And CNN also nearly beat the broadcast networks, its 11.17 million viewers falling short only to NBC’s 11.97 million.

With the election of Donald Trump, Fox News and the networks figure to continue to post high ratings, even with the votes now having been cast.

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