Friday Cable Ratings: Megyn Kelly Beat O’Reilly in Demo 3 out of 5 Nights Last Week

With its ratings win Friday night, Fox News’ The Kelly File beat The O’Reilly Factor in the 25-54 demo for the third time last week. On Monday, Thursday and Friday of last week, Megyn Kelly’s show was the highest rated cable news show in the demo.

On Friday, Kelly’s show had 346K viewers in the demo to Bill O’Reilly’s 305K. In total viewers, O’Reilly was #1 with 2.664M, followed by The Five with 1.997M and Kelly with 1.989M.

Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  181	New Day  156	Morning Joe  68	Express  103
5 pm	The Five  253	Blitzer  146	Schultz  90	Files  41
6 pm	Baier  216	Blitzer  137	Sharpton  89	Files  87
7 pm	Van Susteren  163	Burnett  155	Matthews  137	Velez-Mitchell  85
8 pm	O’Reilly  305	Cooper  107	Hayes  117	Grace  108
9 pm	Kelly  346	Sixties  119	Maddow  120	Files  86
10 pm	Hannity  253	Lemon  157	Investigates  212	Files  130
11 pm	O’Reilly  240	Walsh  111	Investigates  256	Files  166
PRIME TIME	301	128	150	108
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  859	New Day  394	Morning Joe  302	Express  235
5 pm	The Five  1.997	Blitzer  613	Schultz  484	Files  93
6 pm	Baier  1.773	Blitzer  520	Sharpton  460	Files  154
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.559	Burnett  491	Matthews  739	Velez-Mitchell  224
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.264	Cooper  461	Hayes  569	Grace  303
9 pm	Kelly  1.989	Sixties  453	Maddow  632	Files  312
10 pm	Hannity  1.330	Lemon  487	Investigates  382	Files  378
11 pm	O’Reilly  953	Walsh  335	Investigates  451	Files  529
PRIME TIME	1.862	467	528	331
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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