Fox News led the 8-11 p.m. ET block with 10.32 million viewers watching coverage anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. MSNBC (6.01 million) finished second, narrowly beating ABC’s 5.9 million. NBC averaged 5.5 million viewers, followed by CNN (5.1 million), CBS (3.61 million) and the Fox broadcast network (2 million from 8-10 p.m. ET).

The big networks, including ABC, CBS, and NBC, preempted their usual Tuesday night TV slate for live election coverage offering up-to-the-minute updates on the progress of Harris and Trump’s respective campaigns for the presidential office, with some coverage running late into the night and continuing the next morning.