His “Mom Texts” segment, which features colorful texts sent to him by his liberal mother while he’s on the air, has made Mr. Watters famous.
With 3,296,000 viewers overall, The Five was the top cable news show in the fourth quarter of 2021. It also came in second overall in the 25-54 demographic with 481,000 viewers,
Marking the first time in cable news history that a non-primetime program has reached this milestone for an entire quarter. In October 2021, the Five had already broken the record by winning./
The whole month for the first time ever with 3.1 million viewers overall and ranking second in the month’s key demo, which averaged 435,000 in the 25-54 demographic.
With 2,936,000 viewers and 423,000 in the 25–54 demographic, the popular show also topped all daytime and primetime programming on CNN and MSNBC for the entire year of 2021.
It was the only non-primetime show to rank in the top five and achieved its second-highest ranking in program history. Mr. Watters is the author of the New York Times number one bestseller,
“How I Saved the World,” which was also the number one book on Amazon during its first week of release. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Trinity College.
