Friday Cable Ratings: Maddow Last in Primetime Demo for CNN, Fox, MSNBC
Oct 27th, 2014, 6:22 pm

With just 117K viewers in the 25-54 demo Friday night, The Rachel Maddow Show was the lowest-rated show across CNN, Fox News and MSNBC in primetime. At 8 p.m., Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor led the way with 390K in the demo.
Rachel Maddow fared better in total viewers, coming in first on MSNBC with 729K and second in her time slot, behind Fox’s The Kelly File with 1.719M but ahead of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 with 542K.
Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
266 |
New Day
76 |
Morning Joe
94 |
Express
91 |
| 5 pm | The Five
336 |
Blitzer
150 |
Schultz
131 |
WWYD
16 |
| 6 pm | Baier
365 |
Blitzer
175 |
Sharpton
162 |
WWYD
35 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
284 |
Burnett
206 |
Matthews
171 |
Files
34 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
390 |
Cooper
191 |
Hayes
143 |
Files
51 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
258 |
Cooper
254 |
Maddow
117 |
Files
91 |
| 10 pm | Special
216 |
Films
229 |
Investigates
144 |
Files
98 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
211 |
Films
149 |
Investigates
243 |
Files
123 |
| PRIME TIME | 289 | 225 | 135 | 80 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
1.114 |
New Day
355 |
Morning Joe
372 |
Express
173 |
| 5 pm | The Five
2.167 |
Blitzer
615 |
Schultz
643 |
WWYD
47 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.093 |
Blitzer
594 |
Sharpton
634 |
WWYD
120 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.844 |
Burnett
604 |
Matthews
704 |
Files
99 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.393 |
Cooper
507 |
Hayes
465 |
Files
157 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
1.719 |
Cooper
542 |
Maddow
729 |
Files
233 |
| 10 pm | Special
1.019 |
Films
396 |
Investigates
327 |
Files
315 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
883 |
Films
329 |
Investigates
428 |
Files
382 |
| PRIME TIME | 1.713 | 482 | 507 | 235 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



