Wednesday Ratings: Fox News #1 In Demo And Total Viewers For Daytime And Primetime

On a very busy news day that included the Benghazi hearings, the Jodi Arias murder trial verdict and new developments in the Cleveland kidnapping case, Fox News won both the 25-54 demo and total viewers. In the demo, Fox had 321K total day and 471K primetime viewers, with CNN a close second in both cases. In total viewers, Fox handily beat its cable competition with 1.773M total day and 2.795M primetime viewers.

In addition to the numbers below, during the 4pm hour when the Arias verdict was read live, Fox had 2.785M total viewers, beating 2nd place HLN, which came in at 2.198M.

Here are the rest of your Wednesday night ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The Five  438	Blitzer  505	Matthews  134	Grace  482
6 pm	Baier  343	Blitzer  348	Sharpton  146	Grace  377
7 pm	Smith  332	Burnett  366	Matthews  157	Velez-Mitchell  320
8 pm	O’Reilly  508	Cooper  537	Hayes  124	Grace  329
9 pm	Hannity  482	Morgan  403	Maddow  233	Dr. Drew  364
10 pm	Van Susteren  423	Cooper  422	O’Donnell  161	After Dark  381
11 pm	O’Reilly  442	Burnett  332	Hayes  147	After Dark  291
TOTAL DAY	321	309	108	262
PRIME TIME	471	454	173	358
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The Five  2.937	Blitzer  1.382	Matthews  703	Grace  1.576
6 pm	Baier  2.638	Blitzer  916	Sharpton  624	Grace  1.194
7 pm	Smith  2.240	Burnett  944	Matthews  674	Velez-Mitchell  1.031
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.383	Cooper  1.391	Hayes  573	Grace  918
9 pm	Hannity  2.628	Morgan  1.085	Maddow  877	Dr. Drew  940
10 pm	Van Susteren  2.363	Cooper  1.149	O’Donnell  826	After Dark  806
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.524	Burnett  817	Hayes  402	Showbiz  668
TOTAL DAY	1.773	824	405	689
PRIME TIME	2.795	1.208	758	888
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data