According to Pew Research Center, more Americans prefer to watch the news rather than read it or listen to it on podcasts or radio. A Pew survey found that 44% of Americans prefer to watch the news, 37% would rather read it, and only 19% prefer to listen to it.

These numbers are nearly unchanged since 2018, Pew found, even though there are more ways than ever before for people to get their news (social media, podcasts, Substacks, etc.). And, 62% of those who prefer to watch the news do so on TV rather than on platforms such as YouTube or TikTok.

Among the cable news channels, Fox News has the largest audience, by far, according to Adweek. Fox News had more than 2 million primetime viewers in January, followed by MS NOW (MSNBC) with 887,000 and CNN with 660,000. Of the 15 most-watched cable news shows in January, 13 aired on Fox News; two were from MS NOW.

As always, the February TV/video chart that we’re releasing today has a mix of cable TV news programs, including shows from CNN, MS NOW, Fox, News Nation, OAN and others. It also has some YouTube and Rumble shows, and documentaries. As we’ve written about previously, we rate documentaries because they are “news-like” content, and because of their depth on one topic, they can have unusual scores as compared to other types of news content, such as very high reliability scores, or very high reliability scores combined with strong left or right bias scores.

Our analyst team has now fully rated more than 860 news and news-like TV/video shows. This chart contains 39 of them (you can see a list of those 39 here). It’s impossible to put 800 TV/video sources in one image (the result would be a completely unreadable chart), so we choose a selection of sources to feature each month. In order to make the logos as large and readable as possible, we have magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources.

Twelve shows appear in the green box of the February chart. Remember: Sources rated as minimally biased and fact-based are found within the green box. (More TV/video sources fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.)

• 2000 Meters to Andriivka (a documentary about a particular battle in Ukraine)
• 2WAY: TONIGHT
• C-SPAN Live Stream
• CNBC: The Exchange
• CNN: CNN 10
• CNN: The Situation Room
• EWTN: EWTN News Nightly
• Merit Street Media: The News on Merit TV
• Mr Nobody Against Putin (a documentary related to the Russia/Ukraine war)
• NewsNation: Elizabeth Vargas Reports
• Scripps News TV Network
• Sinclair: Full Measure

Ten sources appear on the Media Bias Chart® this month for the first time (three of these fall within the green box):

• 2000 Meters to Andriivka
• 2WAY: TONIGHT
• CNBC: The Exchange
• Fox News: The Will Cain Show
• Gay USA
• More Perfect Union (YouTube) – Faiz Shakir
• Paramount+: Bodyguard of Lies
• Real America’s Voice: Live From Studio 6B
• The Brett Cooper Show
• The Rick Smith Show

Don’t see your favorite show on the February chart? You can look up ratings on all sources we’ve analyzed and create custom chart images using our free mobile app available for Apple and Android. You also can access the free version of the interactive chart on the website, which allows access to data on 250 of our top sources. Daily search limits apply.

To get expanded access, you’ll need a News Newbie or News Nerd subscription. Our subscribers can search all sources our team has fully rated (websites, podcasts and TV/video), with other added benefits! In all, our analysts have fully rated more than 4,500 sources, with commercial data on about 13,900 sources.

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