Wednesday Cable Ratings: CNN’s Cooper Beats Fox’s O’Reilly in Demo
By covering the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 for the full 8pm hour Wednesday night, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 beat Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor in the 25-54 demo for the first time in nearly a year. Anderson Cooper drew 431K viewers in the demo while Bill O’Reilly had 386K. The last time Cooper beat O’Reilly when both men were hosting was on Wednesday, May 8th, 2013, in which Cooper’s exclusive interview with Cleveland kidnapper hero Charles Ramsey propelled him to beat O’Reilly by 29k demo viewers.
In total viewers, O’Reilly’s show remained well ahead of Cooper with 2.810M to CNN’s 972K. Overall Wednesday night, CNN’s 309K average in the prime time demo beat MSNBC’s 213K. Fox was #1 in the demo with 360K. CNN was third in total viewers with 778K, behind Fox’s 2.385M and MSNBC’s 854K.
Here are the rest of your Wednesday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
268 |
New Day
126 |
Morning Joe
132 |
Express
96 |
| 5 pm | The Five
396 |
Blitzer
310 |
Schultz
166 |
Files
71 |
| 6 pm | Baier
352 |
Blitzer
286 |
Sharpton
186 |
Files
50 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
344 |
Burnett
289 |
Matthews
218 |
Velez-Mitchell
68 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
386 |
Cooper
431 |
Hayes
158 |
Grace
114 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
326 |
Morgan
297 |
Maddow
282 |
Dr. Drew
108 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
368 |
Death Row
200 |
O’Donnell
198 |
Minute
57 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
282 |
Cooper
223 |
Hayes
48 |
Files
138 |
| PRIME TIME | 360 | 309 | 213 | 93 |
| 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
1.059 |
New Day
347 |
Morning Joe
348 |
Express
209 |
| 5 pm | The Five
2.064 |
Blitzer
913 |
Schultz
513 |
Files
140 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.070 |
Blitzer
786 |
Sharpton
621 |
Files
125 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.815 |
Burnett
786 |
Matthews
815 |
Velez-Mitchell
195 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.810 |
Cooper
972 |
Hayes
637 |
Grace
348 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.444 |
Morgan
833 |
Maddow
1.099 |
Dr. Drew
329 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.900 |
Cooper
525 |
O’Donnell
826 |
Minute
242 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.073 |
Cooper
565 |
Hayes
231 |
Files
311 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.385 | 778 | 854 | 306 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
