Wednesday Cable Ratings: Fox’s Bret Baier #2 for All Cable News in Demo

Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier was the second highest rated show in the primetime, 25-54 demo Wednesday night, besting all other cable news programs besides Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor. Bret Baier had 281K viewers in the demo at 6 p.m., while Bill O’Reilly had 428K at 8 p.m.

In total viewers, O’Reilly was also #1 with 2.531M. The Five came in second with 1.931M and Baier was third with 1.914M. During his 6 p.m. time slot, Baier beat his CNN and MSNBC competition combined in both the demo and total viewers.

Here are the rest of your Wednesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  186	New Day  96	Morning Joe  128	Express  128
5 pm	The Five  247	Blitzer  219	Schultz  148	Detective  24
6 pm	Baier  281	Blitzer  175	Sharpton  130	Detective  19
7 pm	Van Susteren  276	Burnett  155	Matthews  157	Velez-Mitchell  39
8 pm	O’Reilly  428	Cooper  200	Hayes  150	Grace  96
9 pm	Kelly  273	Smerconish  147	Maddow  219	Dr. Drew  92
10 pm	Hannity  273	Lemon  155	O’Donnell  165	Files  105
11 pm	O’Reilly  202	Cooper  142	Hayes  109	Files  112
PRIME TIME	324	170	178	97
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.039	New Day  322	Morning Joe  340	Express  285
5 pm	The Five  1.931	Blitzer  705	Schultz  595	Detective  86
6 pm	Baier  1.914	Blitzer  510	Sharpton  555	Detective  162
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.709	Burnett  498	Matthews  793	Velez-Mitchell  164
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.531	Cooper  590	Hayes  586	Grace  287
9 pm	Kelly  1.698	Smerconish  412	Maddow  772	Dr. Drew  294
10 pm	Hannity  1.273	Lemon  399	O’Donnell  594	Files  318
11 pm	O’Reilly  925	Cooper  320	Hayes  330	Files  335
PRIME TIME	1.834	470	650	300
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data