Friday Cable News Ratings: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Beats Fox’s The Five in Demo

Friday afternoon, CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer had a rare victory over Fox News’ The Five in the 25-54 demo. Blitzer’s show had 215K in the demo, while The Five had 193K. MSNBC’s The Ed Show was a distant third with just 97K.

At the same time, with 1.658M total viewers, The Five had nearly three times as many total viewers as The Situation Room, which had 633K. And it nearly quadrupled Ed Schultz’s MSNBC show, which had 443K total viewers.

Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  238	New Day  125	Morning Joe  118	Express  129
5 pm	The Five  193	Blitzer  215	Schultz  97	Express  42
6 pm	Baier  267	Blitzer/Crossfire  132/104	Sharpton  113	Express  57
7 pm	Smith  230	Burnett  114	Matthews  110	Velez-Mitchell  89
8 pm	O’Reilly  375	Cooper  142	Hayes  151	Grace  82
9 pm	Hannity  205	Morgan  90	Maddow  171	Mystery  125
10 pm	Van Susteren  216	Gupta  113	Investigates  142	Mystery  143
11 pm	O’Reilly  242	Cooper  131	Investigates  190	Grace  102
PRIME TIME	267	115	156	123
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.171	New Day  354	Morning Joe  394	Express  259
5 pm	The Five  1.658	Blitzer  633	Schultz  443	Express  141
6 pm	Baier  1.605	Blitzer/Crossfire  399/312	Sharpton  538	Express  160
7 pm	Smith  1.196	Burnett  393	Matthews  618	Velez-Mitchell  260
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.417	Cooper  558	Hayes  573	Grace  251
9 pm	Hannity  1.259	Morgan  421	Maddow  766	Mystery  425
10 pm	Van Susteren  1.112	Gupta  469	Investigates  391	Mystery  424
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.012	Cooper  385	Investigates  454	Grace  293
PRIME TIME	1.601	483	579	377
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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