SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past few years, researchers have used the term "Fox News Effect" to describe the significant bump the network was capable of granting favored Republican candidates.

That effect seems to have paid off in spades for President-elect Donald Trump, according to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.

Pew says that 40% of Trump voters got their news about the election from Rupert Murdoch's crown jewel. In a distant second place for supporters of the president-elect was CNN (8%), followed by Facebook (7%). Next was NBC (6%) and local news (5%), followed by much smaller segmentations.

Trump supporters stayed with Fox even after the president-elect's well-publicized feud with former Fox star Megyn Kelly, who recently decamped to NBC after filing a sexual harassment suit against former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes.