Washington Post: Fox News Channel towered over its cable news rivals on election night, attracting more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined. In primetime, an average of 7 million viewers chose FNC to get their election news, while CNN attracted an average audience of 2.4 million and MSNBC averaged just shy of 2 million. For real election-news junkies, FNC was also the place of choice. Between 6 a.m. Tuesday and 3 a.m. Wednesday - so-called "total day" in Nielsen-speak - FNC averaged just over 3 million viewers, overshadowing CNN, which hovered at 980,000 viewers for the whole day, and MSNBC's 838,000.