It’s shaping up to be quite a year at Fox News. The long-dominant force in cable news has transformed itself into the most-watched network in all of television, with just-released October ratings showing that Fox has held its lead over all of the broadcast networks in prime time. Since the start of the year, Fox News has averaged 3.281 million viewers in weekday prime, just ahead of ABC (3.252 million viewers), CBS (3.104 million viewers) and NBC (3.087 million viewers).

In October, Fox News delivered an average prime time audience of 2.3 million viewers, while its cable news competitors CNN and MSNBC fell to record lows. MSNBC was second overall with 815,000 total viewers in prime (down 41% from the same period one year ago) and CNN had an average audience of 504,000 viewers (down 39%)--CNN’s second lowest-rated October on record.

CNN’s prime time lineup was shaken by record lows in October, with The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Laura Coates Live and Anderson Cooper 360 all posting all-time lows for October among viewers 25-54, the key demographic valued by advertisers.

The most-watched program in all of cable news in October was--again--Fox News Channel’s The Five, which drew an average audience for the month of 3.692 million viewers, crushing the competition and also putting The Five into first place across all of television in the 5 p.m. time slot, a remarkable achievement for a show that airs outside of prime time, when television viewership is typically highest.

The Five’s ratings performance for the month beat traditional broadcast prime time shows like NBC’s Law and Order: SVU (3.5 million viewers) and ABC’s 9-1-1 Nashville (3.3 million viewers).

Following The Five, the most-watched cable news shows were all on Fox, with Jesse Watters Primetime in second place with 3.073 million viewers, followed by Gutfeld! (2.825 million viewers), Special Report with Bret Baier (2.768 million viewers), and Hannity (2.567 million viewers).

FNC’s Gutfeld! continued to dominate the broadcast networks’ late night shows, including ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2.1 million viewers), CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2.1 million viewers) and NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (1.2 million viewers).

FNC’s Special Report, the network’s key evening newscast, finished October outperforming the CBS Evening News in 19 major markets across the country, including New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. The broadcast evening newscasts have remained remarkably competitive, drawing much larger viewership than cable news, making Special Report’s performance noteworthy--and making it easy to see why recently-named CBS News chief Bari Weiss mused about hiring away Baier to take over CBS’ flagship program (In a podcast interview this week, Baier said he was flattered, but happy at Fox, where he recently extended his contract).

Among viewers in the key demo, Fox News led in prime with an average audience of 228,000 viewers (down 36% from one year ago), well ahead of CNN (77,000 viewers, down 39%) and MSNBC (73,000 viewers, down 41%).

Gutfeld! was the highest-rated show on cable news in the key demo, finishing October with an average audience of 325,000 viewers, followed by The Five (304,000 viewers), Jesse Watters Primetime (295,000 viewers), Hannity (251,000 viewers) and Special Report (249,000 viewers)--all according to ratings data compiled by Nielsen and its Nielsen Big Data + Panel.