Friday Cable Ratings: Fox’s Bret Baier #2 Overall in Total Viewers

Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier topped 2 million total viewers on Friday, making it the second-highest rated show in cable news behind The O’Reilly Factor, which had 2.047M total viewers at 8 p.m. with fill-in host Eric Bolling.

In the 25-54 demo, The O’Reilly Factor also came in first with 397K viewers, followed by The Kelly File at 9 p.m. with 343K.

Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  231	New Day  107	Morning Joe  97
5 pm	The Five  286	Blitzer  108	MSNBC Live  34
6 pm	Baier  297	Blitzer  114	Sharpton  65
7 pm	Van Susteren  293	Burnett  154	Matthews  107
8 pm	O’Reilly  397	Cooper  166	Hayes  131
9 pm	Kelly  343	Lemon  152	Maddow  146
10 pm	Hannity  303	Bourdain  142	Investigates  128
11 pm	O’Reilly  221	Bourdain  190	Investigates  195
PRIME TIME	347	153	135
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.017	New Day  345	Morning Joe  398
5 pm	The Five  1.900	Blitzer  546	MSNBC Live  392
6 pm	Baier  2.006	Blitzer  448	Sharpton  415
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.576	Burnett  510	Matthews  739
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.047	Cooper  482	Hayes  740
9 pm	Kelly  1.586	Lemon  511	Maddow  739
10 pm	Hannity  1.375	Bourdain  348	Investigates  321
11 pm	O’Reilly  961	Bourdain  387	Investigates  433
PRIME TIME	1.672	447	600
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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