Tuesday Cable Ratings: CNN’s Don Lemon #1 in Demo for All Cable News
With Don Lemon at the helm as Baltimore’s 10 p.m. curfew went into effect Tuesday night, CNN had the highest-rated hour in the 25-54 demo across all of cable news with 1.144M viewers. During that same hour, Fox News’ Hannity came in second with 853K and MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell was third with 280K. CNN beat Fox News in the primetime demo for the second consecutive night, 769K to 767K.
In total viewers, Lemon’s 2.719M came close to beating Sean Hannity‘s 2.782M, but overall Fox’s primetime average of 2.938M far outpaced CNN’s 1.854M. However, during the 11 p.m. hour, CNN did beat Fox, 1.712M to 1.598M in total viewers.
Here are the rest of your Tuesday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
372 |
New Day
254 |
Morning Joe
125 |
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| 5 pm | The Five
454 |
Blitzer
376 |
Schultz
97 |
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| 6 pm | Baier
372 |
Blitzer
392 |
Sharpton
137 |
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| 7 pm | Van Susteren
416 |
Burnett
459 |
Matthews
202 |
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| 8 pm | O’Reilly
661 |
Cooper
517 |
Hayes
163 |
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| 9 pm | Kelly
786 |
Cooper
639 |
Maddow
222 |
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| 10 pm | Hannity
853 |
Tonight
1.144 |
O’Donnell
280 |
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| 11 pm | Hannity
532 |
Tonight
829 |
O’Donnell
181 |
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| PRIME TIME | 767 | 769 | 222 | |
| 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
1.309 |
New Day
658 |
Morning Joe
472 |
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| 5 pm | The Five
2.257 |
Blitzer
1.195 |
Schultz
546 |
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| 6 pm | Baier
2.137 |
Blitzer
1.100 |
Sharpton
700 |
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| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.899 |
Burnett
1.207 |
Matthews
772 |
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| 8 pm | O’Reilly
3.020 |
Cooper
1.264 |
Hayes
495 |
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| 9 pm | Kelly
2.990 |
Cooper
1.561 |
Maddow
648 |
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| 10 pm | Hannity
2.782 |
Tonight
2.719 |
O’Donnell
717 |
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| 11 pm | Hannity
1.598 |
Tonight
1.712 |
O’Donnell
463 |
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| PRIME TIME | 2.938 | 1.854 | 620 | |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
