Monday Cable Ratings: Schultz 3rd Place at 5PM, Last on MSNBC in Demo

With just 49K viewers in the 25-54 demo Monday, MSNBC’s The Ed Show came in third place during its 5 p.m. time slot behind Fox News’ The Five (292K) and CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer (81K). Ed Schultz’s show was also the lowest rated hour on MSNBC in the demo between 5 p.m. and midnight.
In total viewers, The Ed Show edged out Wolf Blitzer, getting 454K viewers to CNN’s 438K. The Five was still #1 with 1.854M total viewers.
Here are the rest of your Monday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
209 |
New Day
60 |
Morning Joe
72 |
Express
75 |
| 5 pm | The Five
292 |
Blitzer
81 |
Schultz
49 |
Files
17 |
| 6 pm | Baier
236 |
Blitzer
79 |
Sharpton
56 |
Files
32 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
200 |
Burnett
118 |
Matthews
91 |
Velez-Mitchell
41 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
531 |
Cooper
151 |
Hayes
107 |
Grace
106 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
489 |
Hernandez Sp.
119 |
Maddow
155 |
Dr. Drew
81 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
327 |
Lemon
93 |
O’Donnell
148 |
Files
120 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
224 |
Cooper
137 |
Hayes
93 |
Files
154 |
| PRIME TIME | 449 | 121 | 137 | 102 |
| 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
931 |
New Day
213 |
Morning Joe
310 |
Express
165 |
| 5 pm | The Five
1.854 |
Blitzer
438 |
Schultz
454 |
Files
76 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1.822 |
Blitzer
299 |
Sharpton
464 |
Files
152 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.638 |
Burnett
321 |
Matthews
578 |
Velez-Mitchell
146 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
3.151 |
Cooper
434 |
Hayes
470 |
Grace
280 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.806 |
Hernandez Sp.
442 |
Maddow
769 |
Dr. Drew
296 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.629 |
Lemon
399 |
O’Donnell
652 |
Files
292 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.087 |
Cooper
365 |
Hayes
349 |
Files
373 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.530 | 425 | 631 | 289 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



