Tuesday Cable Ratings: CNN’s Blitzer Drops to 29K in Demo at 5PM

The 5 p.m. hour of CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer averaged just 29K viewers in the 25-54 demo Tuesday afternoon, making it the lowest-rated cable news show during that hour. Fox News’ The Five was #1 at 5 p.m. with 161K in the demo, followed by MSNBC’s The Ed Show with 57K and HLN’s Forensic Files with 31K.

In total viewers, Wolf Blitzer came in third place at 5 p.m. with 261K, behind Fox and MSNBC but ahead of HLN.

Here are the rest of your Tuesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  267	New Day  72	Morning Joe  98	Express  72
5 pm	The Five  161	Blitzer  29	Schultz  57	Files  31
6 pm	Baier  167	Blitzer  59	Sharpton  97	Files  25
7 pm	Van Susteren  240	Burnett  96	Matthews  122	Velez-Mitchell  61
8 pm	O’Reilly  402	Cooper  116	Hayes  148	Grace  99
9 pm	Kelly  399	McStay Special  181	Maddow  160	Dr. Drew  78
10 pm	Hannity  316	Lemon  97	O’Donnell  157	Files  139
11 pm	O’Reilly  208	Cooper  98	Hayes  68	Files  172
PRIME TIME	373	131	156	105
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.040	New Day  266	Morning Joe  288	Express  170
5 pm	The Five  1.477	Blitzer  261	Schultz  334	Files  96
6 pm	Baier  1.557	Blitzer  223	Sharpton  378	Files  113
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.486	Burnett  326	Matthews  632	Velez-Mitchell  191
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.568	Cooper  375	Hayes  661	Grace  295
9 pm	Kelly  2.433	McStay Special  487	Maddow  782	Dr. Drew  232
10 pm	Hannity  1.622	Lemon  320	O’Donnell  555	Files  386
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.054	Cooper  341	Hayes  273	Files  407
PRIME TIME	2.210	394	666	305
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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