Tuesday Cable Ratings: Fox News Back on Top in Prime Time Demo

After a week of losses to CNN, Fox News was back on top Tuesday night, with all three shows at 8pm, 9pm and 10pm ranking #1 in the 25-54 demo. Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor had 404K in the demo compared to CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360′s 366K. After that The Kelly File brought in 354K, narrowly beating Piers Morgan Live’s 351K. And Hannity’s 336K came out ahead of the Don Lemon-anchored Malaysia Airlines special report on CNN, which had 324K. Fox was also #1 in total viewers across the board.
CNN’s Erin Burnett did see a ratings victory at 7pm, coming in first place with 321K ahead of Fox’s Greta Van Susteren, who had 290K in the demo.
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
292 |
New Day
152 |
Morning Joe
130 |
Express
107 |
| 5 pm | The Five
379 |
Blitzer
263 |
Schultz
110 |
Files
59 |
| 6 pm | Baier
266 |
Blitzer
266 |
Sharpton
134 |
Files
35 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
290 |
Burnett
321 |
Matthews
137 |
Velez-Mitchell
48 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
404 |
Cooper
366 |
Hayes
142 |
Grace
45 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
354 |
Morgan
351 |
Maddow
240 |
Dr. Drew
60 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
336 |
Lemon
324 |
O’Donnell
215 |
Minute
67 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
339 |
Cooper
348 |
Hayes
133 |
Files
96 |
| PRIME TIME | 367 | 347 | 200 | 57 |
| 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
1.146 |
New Day
459 |
Morning Joe
363 |
Express
214 |
| 5 pm | The Five
2.154 |
Blitzer
793 |
Schultz
540 |
Files
139 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.051 |
Blitzer
701 |
Sharpton
590 |
Files
80 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.720 |
Burnett
883 |
Matthews
750 |
Velez-Mitchell
176 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.797 |
Cooper
963 |
Hayes
600 |
Grace
276 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
1.982 |
Morgan
784 |
Maddow
962 |
Dr. Drew
240 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.621 |
Lemon
856 |
O’Donnell
744 |
Minute
162 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.343 |
Cooper
743 |
Hayes
363 |
Files
282 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.137 | 868 | 769 | 226 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



