Friday Cable Ratings: CNN Beats Every Fox News Primetime Show in Demo

On a very busy news day Friday, CNN beat Fox News across the board in the 25-54 demo for both total day and primetime. Between 5 p.m. and midnight, CNN topped Fox in the demo for every hour, starting with The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, which had 405K compared to The Five’s 277K.

In total viewers, Fox News was #1 with 1.682M, though CNN’s numbers were unusually high with an average of 1.052M. At 10 p.m., CNN Tonight with Don Lemon (1.026M) came very close to beating a Fox terrorism special, which had 1.059M. At 8 p.m., Eric Bolling filled in for Bill O’Reilly, but Megyn Kelly did host her show the following hour.

We should note that in place of Sean Hannity‘s program last Friday, Fox ran a special report about Jordan and terrorism hosted by Bret Baier.

Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  172	New Day  94	Morning Joe  87
5 pm	The Five  277	Blitzer  405	Schultz  113
6 pm	Baier  302	Blitzer  371	Sharpton  87
7 pm	Van Susteren  306	Burnett  376	Matthews  127
8 pm	Special/O’Reilly  321/334	Cooper  336	Hayes  136
9 pm	Kelly  307	Cooper  312	Maddow  264
10 pm	Special  172	Tonight  262	Investigates  149
11 pm	O’Reilly  174	Tonight  239	Investigates  176
PRIME TIME	269	303	183
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  884	New Day  312	Morning Joe  396
5 pm	The Five  1.964	Blitzer  1.418	Schultz  773
6 pm	Baier  2.001	Blitzer  1.030	Sharpton  598
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.807	Burnett  1.070	Matthews  639
8 pm	Special/O’Reilly  1.904/2.084	Cooper  1.167	Hayes  707
9 pm	Kelly  1.977	Cooper  916	Maddow  1.253
10 pm	Special  1.059	Tonight  1.026	Investigates  344
11 pm	O’Reilly  793	Tonight  893	Investigates  345
PRIME TIME	1.682	1.052	770
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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