Friday Cable News Ratings: CNN’s Cooper, Morgan Drop Below 60K in Demo

Friday night, CNN’s Piers Morgan Live at 9pm and Anderson Cooper 360 at 10pm both dropped below 60K viewers in the 25-54 demo. Piers Morgan had 58K in the demo with Anderson Cooper pulled in just 46K. At 10pm, Cooper even lost to MSNBC Investigates, which replaced Up Late with Alec Baldwin at the last minute after the network suspended Alec Baldwin for two weeks.
Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
336 |
New Day
92 |
Morning Joe
121 |
Express
112 |
| 5 pm | The Five
427 |
Blitzer
84 |
Schultz
167 |
WWYD
47 |
| 6 pm | Baier
460 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
95/69 |
Sharpton
201 |
WWYD
76 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
351 |
Burnett
96 |
Matthews
225 |
Velez-Mitchell
67 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
366 |
Cooper
69 |
Hayes
217 |
Grace
88 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
343 |
Morgan
58 |
Maddow
210 |
Mysteries
93 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
315 |
Cooper/Nichols
46/52 |
Investigates
81 |
Mysteries
161 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
367 |
Bourdain
106 |
Investigates
199 |
Grace
127 |
| PRIME TIME | 344 | 59 | 169 | 114 |
| 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
1.274 |
New Day
278 |
Morning Joe
424 |
Express
196 |
| 5 pm | The Five
2.465 |
Blitzer
462 |
Schultz
740 |
WWYD
111 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.456 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
441/239 |
Sharpton
709 |
WWYD
165 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.902 |
Burnett
304 |
Matthews
870 |
Velez-Mitchell
160 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.490 |
Cooper
373 |
Hayes
659 |
Grace
358 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.371 |
Morgan
402 |
Maddow
877 |
Mysteries
321 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.590 |
Cooper/Nichols
279/152 |
Investigates
248 |
Mysteries
353 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.174 |
Bourdain
213 |
Investigates
335 |
Grace
276 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.157 | 331 | 595 | 344 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



