Tuesday Cable Ratings: Piers Morgan Posts His Second-Lowest Demo Rating Ever

With just 50K viewers in the 25-54 demo Tuesday night, CNN’s Piers Morgan had his second-lowest demo rating since his show debuted in January 2011. His lowest ratings remains the 39K viewers he had in the demo on May 15, 2012.
Morgan came in fourth place in both the demo and total viewers in his 9pm time slot. Fox’s The Kelly File was #1 with 354K in the demo and 2.068M total viewers. MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show was #2 with 227K in the demo and 906K total. And HLN’s Dr. Drew came in third with 131K in the demo and 377K total. Morgan’s CNN show had 270K 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
234 |
New Day
77 |
Morning Joe
99 |
Express
88 |
| 5 pm | The Five
423 |
Blitzer
111 |
Schultz
164 |
WWYD
32 |
| 6 pm | Baier
396 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
116/69 |
Sharpton
209 |
WWYD
63 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
386 |
Burnett
78 |
Matthews
196 |
Velez-Mitchell
61 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
418 |
Cooper
80 |
Hayes
146 |
Grace
103 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
354 |
Morgan
50 |
Maddow
227 |
Dr. Drew
131 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
280 |
Cooper
63 |
O’Donnell
216 |
Minute
28 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
230 |
Burnett
56 |
Hayes
151 |
Files
130 |
| PRIME TIME | 351 | 64 | 197 | 87 |
| 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
1.037 |
New Day
235 |
Morning Joe
307 |
Express
223 |
| 5 pm | The Five
2.201 |
Blitzer
569 |
Schultz
612 |
WWYD
88 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1.992 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
408/268 |
Sharpton
706 |
WWYD
125 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.841 |
Burnett
293 |
Matthews
866 |
Velez-Mitchell
229 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.451 |
Cooper
324 |
Hayes
616 |
Grace
402 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.068 |
Morgan
270 |
Maddow
906 |
Dr. Drew
377 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.377 |
Cooper
228 |
O’Donnell
705 |
Minute
164 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
946 |
Burnett
152 |
Hayes
335 |
Files
295 |
| PRIME TIME | 1.969 | 274 | 742 | 314 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



