Thursday Cable Ratings: Eric Bolling-Hosted Hannity Beats O’Reilly in Demo
May 23rd, 2014, 6:03 pm

Filling in for Sean Hannity on Fox News last night, Eric Bolling averaged 265K viewers in the 25-54 demo, ahead of Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, which had 216K. Bolling also won the 10 p.m. time slot, beating MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell (with fill-in host Ari Melber) and CNN’s Blackfish.
In total viewers, Bill O’Reilly was #1 with 2.182M, while the Bolling-hosted Hannity had 1.343M.
Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
217 |
New Day
70 |
Morning Joe
57 |
Express
102 |
| 5 pm | The Five
216 |
Blitzer
52 |
Schultz
79 |
WWYD
12 |
| 6 pm | Baier
170 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
67/60 |
Sharpton
116 |
Dr. Drew
32 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
126 |
Burnett
77 |
Matthews
129 |
Velez-Mitchell
41 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
216 |
Cooper
88 |
Hayes
103 |
Grace
80 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
206 |
CNN Films
106 |
Maddow
191 |
Dr. Drew
101 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
265 |
CNN Films
143 |
O’Donnell
157 |
Files
61 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
269 |
CNN Films
93 |
Hayes
110 |
Files
185 |
| PRIME TIME | 230 | 112 | 150 | 81 |
| 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
891 |
New Day
284 |
Morning Joe
251 |
Express
193 |
| 5 pm | The Five
1.562 |
Blitzer
263 |
Schultz
503 |
WWYD
78 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1.465 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
261/168 |
Sharpton
554 |
Dr. Drew
69 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.207 |
Burnett
216 |
Matthews
709 |
Velez-Mitchell
177 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.182 |
Cooper
323 |
Hayes
574 |
Grace
281 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
1.798 |
CNN Films
343 |
Maddow
887 |
Dr. Drew
270 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.343 |
CNN Films
410 |
O’Donnell
619 |
Files
163 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.132 |
CNN Films
180 |
Hayes
318 |
Files
318 |
| PRIME TIME | 1.776 | 359 | 696 | 238 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



