Wednesday Cable Ratings: CNN’s New Day Nearly Doubles Morning Joe in Demo
Aug 28th, 2014, 6:46 pm

With 166K viewers in the 25-54 demo Wednesday morning, CNN’s New Day nearly doubled MSNBC’s Morning Joe, which had 84K viewers. New Day also beat Morning Joe in the total viewers, though by a smaller margin, 440K to 368K.
Fox News’ Fox & Friends was #1 in both categories with 305K in the demo and 1.016M total viewers.
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
305 |
New Day
166 |
Morning Joe
84 |
Express
132 |
| 5 pm | The Five
249 |
Blitzer
153 |
Schultz
60 |
Files
23 |
| 6 pm | Baier
320 |
Blitzer
141 |
Sharpton
125 |
Files
44 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
290 |
Burnett
128 |
Matthews
126 |
Velez-Mitchell
66 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
498 |
Cooper
181 |
Hayes
161 |
Grace
74 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
467 |
Cooper
237 |
Maddow
199 |
Dr. Drew
54 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
412 |
Tonight
212 |
O’Donnell
158 |
Files
126 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
245 |
Tonight
186 |
Hayes
96 |
Files
255 |
| PRIME TIME | 459 | 210 | 172 | 85 |
| 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
1.016 |
New Day
440 |
Morning Joe
368 |
Express
250 |
| 5 pm | The Five
1.817 |
Blitzer
471 |
Schultz
490 |
Files
66 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1.945 |
Blitzer
438 |
Sharpton
477 |
Files
136 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.670 |
Burnett
443 |
Matthews
695 |
Velez-Mitchell
180 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.659 |
Cooper
536 |
Hayes
604 |
Grace
297 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.270 |
Cooper
626 |
Maddow
818 |
Dr. Drew
211 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.639 |
Tonight
545 |
O’Donnell
703 |
Files
312 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.018 |
Tonight
518 |
Hayes
326 |
Files
541 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.189 | 569 | 708 | 274 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



