Friday Cable News Ratings: Wolf Blitzer #1 in Demo and Total on CNN

The 5pm broadcast of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer with the highest-rated show on CNN Friday evening with 194K in the 25-54 demo and 754K total viewers. Those numbers were enough to beat MSNBC’s The Ed Show, which had 147K in the demo and 572K total, but not enough to beat Fox News’ The Five, which had 341K in the demo and 2.123M total viewers.

Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  261	New Day  90	Morning Joe  108	Express  132
5 pm	The Five  341	Blitzer  194	Schultz  147	WWYD  52
6 pm	Baier  297	Blitzer/Crossfire  156/108	Sharpton  210	WWYD  95
7 pm	Van Susteren  328	Burnett  107	Matthews  194	Velez-Mitchell  104
8 pm	O’Reilly  349	Cooper  149	Hayes  171	Grace  135
9 pm	Kelly  269	Morgan  118	Maddow  234	Mysteries  142
10 pm	Hannity  235	Cooper/Nichols  83/71	Investigates  225	Mysteries  139
11 pm	O’Reilly  226	Bourdain  135	Investigates  245	Mysteries  133
PRIME TIME	284	115	210	139
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.081	New Day  266	Morning Joe  343	Express  239
5 pm	The Five  2.123	Blitzer  754	Schultz  572	WWYD  112
6 pm	Baier  2.018	Blitzer/Crossfire  564/431	Sharpton  694	WWYD  195
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.845	Burnett  364	Matthews  779	Velez-Mitchell  228
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.321	Cooper  511	Hayes  666	Grace  305
9 pm	Kelly  1.860	Morgan  414	Maddow  817	Mysteries  469
10 pm	Hannity  1.277	Cooper/Nichols  299/231	Investigates  388	Mysteries  438
11 pm	O’Reilly  903	Bourdain  233	Investigates  365	Mysteries  361
PRIME TIME	1.826	397	624	404
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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