The latest cable news ratings are in, and it was a record-breaking week for Fox News, which posted its highest Saturday ratings since April 2003, when the Iraq war began.
After the U.S. and Israeli military launched attacks on Iran on Saturday (February 28), viewers flocked to cable news, with Fox News, MS NOW, and CNN all averaging over a million total viewers in primetime for the week of February 23.
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