Thursday Cable Ratings: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Drops Below 50K in Demo
Sep 19th, 2014, 6:17 pm

Ratings for MSNBC’s The Ed Show continued to drop Thursday, with the program falling to 49K viewers in the 25-54 demo. That once again made it the lowest-rated show in the demo across Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.
During his 5 p.m. time slot, Ed Schultz came in third place in both the demo and total viewers. Fox News’ The Five was #1 with 296K in the demo and 1.927M total viewers.
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
308 |
New Day
80 |
Morning Joe
83 |
Express
80 |
| 5 pm | The Five
296 |
Blitzer
106 |
Schultz
49 |
Files
21 |
| 6 pm | Baier
282 |
Blitzer
128 |
Sharpton
90 |
Files
35 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
279 |
Burnett
104 |
Matthews
122 |
Velez-Mitchell
78 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
417 |
Cooper
99 |
Hayes
105 |
Grace
84 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
373 |
CNN Films
81 |
Maddow
156 |
Dr. Drew
92 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
263 |
CNN Films
135 |
O’Donnell
104 |
Files
82 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
262 |
Cooper
132 |
Hayes
51 |
Files
139 |
| PRIME TIME | 351 | 105 | 122 | 86 |
| 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
1.098 |
New Day
462 |
Morning Joe
415 |
Express
129 |
| 5 pm | The Five
1.927 |
Blitzer
462 |
Schultz
415 |
Files
129 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1.912 |
Blitzer
480 |
Sharpton
492 |
Files
93 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.869 |
Burnett
496 |
Matthews
648 |
Velez-Mitchell
200 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.466 |
Cooper
484 |
Hayes
495 |
Grace
309 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.201 |
CNN Films
383 |
Maddow
646 |
Dr. Drew
224 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.523 |
CNN Films
447 |
O’Donnell
481 |
Files
260 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.111 |
Cooper
244 |
Hayes
226 |
Files
361 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.066 | 438 | 541 | 264 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



