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Fox News Jesus Beats CNN Jesus

Fox News Re-broadcast of Killing Jesus was the #1 telecast in cable news on Friday in both total viewers and in 25-54 demo.  Averaging 1,860,000 viewers, it’s up 24% over Good Friday last year (same time) and with 385,000 in 25-54, it’s up 84% in the key demo. The movie was based on Bill O'Reilly's book of the same name. 

A week after National Geographic Channel set an all-time ratings record, FNC’s broadcast of delivered 1.86 million viewers during it’s Good Friday primetime broadcast which saw a 16% increase in the key demo over the network’ s Friday primetime Q1 average.

 Killing Jesus finished ahead of the original run of CNN’s Miniseries Finding Jesus which averaged 924,000 P2+ and 297,000 A25-54 during its four-week broadcast (3/8/15-3/29/15).