Thursday Cable Ratings: Fox’s The Five #2 in Total for All Cable News

With 2.255M total viewers Thursday afternoon, Fox News’ The Five was the second-highest rated show on cable news, behind only Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, which had 2.702M total viewers. The Five came in first in its 5 p.m. time slot with 336K in the demo, beating CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, which had 252K. Fox’s The Kelly File came in third overall in total viewers with 2.194M.
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
269 |
New Day
97 |
Morning Joe
98 |
Express
91 |
| 5 pm | The Five
336 |
Blitzer
252 |
Schultz
68 |
Files
54 |
| 6 pm | Baier
291 |
Blitzer
170 |
Sharpton
109 |
Files
59 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
233 |
Burnett
158 |
Matthews
132 |
Velez-Mitchell
93 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
388 |
Cooper
262 |
Hayes
108 |
Grace
161 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
340 |
CNN Films
164 |
Maddow
133 |
Dr. Drew
162 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
264 |
CNN Films
148 |
O’Donnell
90 |
Files
124 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
190 |
Cooper
134 |
Hayes
71 |
Files
148 |
| PRIME TIME | 332 | 191 | 110 | 149 |
| 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
1.024 |
New Day
352 |
Morning Joe
404 |
Express
231 |
| 5 pm | The Five
2.255 |
Blitzer
800 |
Schultz
553 |
Files
156 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1.936 |
Blitzer
748 |
Sharpton
507 |
Files
161 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.591 |
Burnett
557 |
Matthews
787 |
Velez-Mitchell
272 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.702 |
Cooper
855 |
Hayes
563 |
Grace
419 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.194 |
CNN Films
575 |
Maddow
765 |
Dr. Drew
380 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.495 |
CNN Films
455 |
O’Donnell
558 |
Files
332 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.073 |
Cooper
391 |
Hayes
287 |
Files
315 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.132 | 628 | 629 | 377 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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