Friday Cable Ratings: Fox’s Kelly Hits Friday Demo High with Duggar Exclusive

Fox News’ The Kelly File more than doubled nearly every other cable news show on Friday in the 25-54 demo with its exclusive interview with two of the young women who were sexually molested by their brother, Josh Duggar. At 9 p.m., Megyn Kelly’s show had 641K viewers in the demo, its highest Friday demo average ever. With 2.222M total viewers, it was second only to The O’Reilly Factor at 8 p.m. with 2.248M.

Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  211	New Day  74	Morning Joe  53
5 pm	The Five  274	Blitzer  91	Schultz  49
6 pm	Baier  213	Blitzer  110	Sharpton  48
7 pm	Van Susteren  192	Burnett  121	Matthews  92
8 pm	O’Reilly  349	Cooper  114	Hayes  84
9 pm	Kelly  641	Bourdain  79	Maddow  102
10 pm	Hannity  277	Bourdain  141	Investigates  86
11 pm	O’Reilly  241	Crimes  84	Investigates  159
PRIME TIME	423	111	91
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  933	New Day  265	Morning Joe  326
5 pm	The Five  1.747	Blitzer  370	Schultz  491
6 pm	Baier  1.565	Blitzer  317	Sharpton  460
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.366	Burnett  421	Matthews  601
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.248	Cooper  430	Hayes  544
9 pm	Kelly  2.222	Bourdain  235	Maddow  643
10 pm	Hannity  1.218	Bourdain  293	Investigates  229
11 pm	O’Reilly  845	Crimes  240	Investigates  293
PRIME TIME	1.898	319	472
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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