Friday Cable Ratings: Fox’s Bret Baier #1 in Demo for All Cable News

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly was off Friday night, which helped Special Report with Bret Baier become the highest-rated cable news show in the 25-54 demo with 386K viewers. Fox’s The Five was #2 with 314K and The O’Reilly Factor with guest host Eric Bolling was #3 with 291K.

In total viewers, The Five was #1 overall with 2.079M, followed by Bret Baier with 2.053M. The Kelly File at 9 p.m. came in third with 1.924M 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  95	Morning Joe  138	Express  110
5 pm	The Five  314	Blitzer  177	Schultz  110	Files  33
6 pm	Baier  386	Blitzer  213	Sharpton  128	Files  63
7 pm	Van Susteren  239	Burnett  170	Matthews  142	Velez-Mitchell  124
8 pm	O’Reilly  291	Cooper  154	Hayes  148	Grace  105
9 pm	Kelly  263	Bourdain  123	Maddow  191	Files  87
10 pm	Hannity  223	Spotlight  143	Investigates  143	Files  96
11 pm	O’Reilly  164	Death Row  127	Investigates  238	Files  156
PRIME TIME	259	137	161	96
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.094	New Day  316	Morning Joe  382	Express  245
5 pm	The Five  2.079	Blitzer  539	Schultz  517	Files  93
6 pm	Baier  2.053	Blitzer  573	Sharpton  511	Files  185
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.618	Burnett  513	Matthews  705	Velez-Mitchell  273
8 pm	O’Reilly  1.881	Cooper  494	Hayes  543	Grace  268
9 pm	Kelly  1.924	Bourdain  359	Maddow  776	Files  250-
10 pm	Hannity  1.320	Spotlight  331	Investigates  345	Files  311
11 pm	O’Reilly  825	Death Row  261	Investigates  355	Files  344
PRIME TIME	1.708	389	556	276
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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