He came in second on CNN in total viewers, however, with a total of 729K to Wolf Blitzer‘s 738K in the 5 pm hour of The Situation Room.
In the 8 pm timeslot, Cooper came in #2 to The O’Reilly Factor––guest-hosted by Eric Bolling––which received 2.243K total viewers––while Chris Hayes came in third with 639K viewers.
Correction: An earlier version of this post said O’Reilly was hosting his program last Friday. He was not; Bolling guest-hosted.
Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
| 5 pm | The Five 309 | Blitzer 203 | Todd 49 | |
| 6 pm | Baier 306 | Blitzer 161 | MSNBC Live 56 | |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren 278 | Burnett 223 | Matthews 84 | |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly 388 | Cooper 274 | Hayes 76 | |
| 9 pm | Kelly 286 | Lemon 186 | Special 98 | |
| 10 pm | Hannity 302 | Blindsided 240 | Investigates 84 | |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly 251 | Special 239 | Investigates 169 | |
| PRIME TIME | 325 | 233 | 86 | |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
| 5 pm | The Five 2.264 | Blitzer 738 | Todd 453 | |
| 6 pm | Baier 2.401 | Blitzer 612 | MSNBC Live 430 | |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren 1.915 | Burnett 612 | Matthews 747 | |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly 2.243 | Cooper 729 | Hayes 639 | |
| 9 pm | Kelly 1.750 | Lemon 589 | Special 540 | |
| 10 pm | Hannity 1.453 | Blindsided 576 | Investigates 244 | |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly 998 | Special 532 | Investigates 342 | |
| PRIME TIME | 1.817 | 631 | 474 | |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||