Wednesday Cable Ratings: Fox’s Kelly #1 in Demo, No CNN Prime Show Breaks 100

Fox News’ The Kelly File was the highest-rated show in the 25-54 demo Wednesday night for all of cable news. With 445K viewers in the demo, Megyn Kelly beat out Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, which had 433K. Bill O’Reilly came out ahead of Kelly in total viewers, bringing in 2.962M to her 2.350M.
During the 8pm hour, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 came in last place in both the demo and total viewers, with 66K and 323K respectively. O’Reilly was #1 at 8pm, followed by MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, who had 107K in the demo and 560K total. HLN’s Nancy Grace was third with 94K in the demo and 374K total.
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
317 |
New Day
91 |
Morning Joe
140 |
Express
98 |
| 5 pm | The Five
353 |
Blitzer
61 |
Schultz
129 |
Express
58 |
| 6 pm | Baier
352 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
75/96 |
Sharpton
142 |
Express
63 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
294 |
Burnett
82 |
Matthews
163 |
Velez-Mitchell
60 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
433 |
Cooper
66 |
Hayes
107 |
Grace
94 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
445 |
Morgan
83 |
Maddow
136 |
Dr. Drew
88 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
305 |
Cooper
52 |
O’Donnell
139 |
After Dark
96 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
381 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
47/50 |
Hayes
78 |
Showbiz
104 |
| PRIME TIME | 396 | 67 | 127 | 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
1.194 |
New Day
256 |
Morning Joe
437 |
Express
212 |
| 5 pm | The Five
2.467 |
Blitzer
372 |
Schultz
682 |
Express
281 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.370 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
421/334 |
Sharpton
706 |
Express
281 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.980 |
Burnett
336 |
Matthews
829 |
Velez-Mitchell
215 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.962 |
Cooper
323 |
Hayes
560 |
Grace
374 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.350 |
Morgan
340 |
Maddow
810 |
Dr. Drew
258 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.590 |
Cooper
193 |
O’Donnell
679 |
After Dark
211 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.315 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
132/153 |
Hayes
322 |
Showbiz
202 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.312 | 285 | 683 | 281 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



