Fox’s January ratings highest since 2008 election (AP)

NEW YORK – Fox News Channel is on a roll, with Jan its prizewinning period in prime-time ratings since the 2008 statesmanly election.

Meanwhile, the Nielsen Co. says CNN saved ordinal locate from MSNBC for the prototypal instance in sextet months.

The Colony senate election helped intend audience to Fox, which averaged 2.94 meg audience in prime-time in January. That’s up sharply from the 2.29 meg audience terminal January, the period President Barack Obama was inaugurated. Fox hasn’t seen much drawing since the 3.1 meg cipher in Nov 2008.

CNN was heartened to jump time MSNBC, which had been making gains with an narrow lineup. CNN averaged 946,000 audience in prime-time in January, compared with MSNBC’s 838,000. Each of the programme networks had large audiences in Jan than they did in December; CNN and MSNBC viewership dropped compared with Jan 2009.