Friday Cable Ratings: MSNBC’s Ed Show Last in Demo with 58K

With 58K viewers in the 25-54 demo at 5 p.m., MSNBC’s The Ed Show was the lowest rated hour across all of cable news on on Wednesday afternoon (Ari Melber guest-hosted). In the same time slot, Fox News’ The Five was #1 with 253K and CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer came in second with 96K.

In total viewers, The Ed Show beat out Wolf Blitzer, 486K to 412K while The Five was again #1 with 1.710M.

Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  255	New Day  108	Morning Joe  107
5 pm	The Five  253	Blitzer  96	Schultz  58
6 pm	Baier  235	Blitzer  138	Sharpton  68
7 pm	Van Susteren  240	Burnett  105	Matthews  106
8 pm	O’Reilly  310	Cooper  161	Hayes  109
9 pm	Kelly  336	Seventies  182	Maddow  172
10 pm	Santorum Special  270	Special  204	Investigates  122
11 pm	O’Reilly  195	Special  261	Investigates  231
PRIME TIME	306	185	134
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  968	New Day  307	Morning Joe  391
5 pm	The Five  1.710	Blitzer  412	Schultz  486
6 pm	Baier  1.571	Blitzer  398	Sharpton  454
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.344	Burnett  407	Matthews  569
8 pm	O’Reilly  1.833	Cooper  658	Hayes  548
9 pm	Kelly  1.786	Seventies  570	Maddow  781
10 pm	Santorum Special  1.009	Special  665	Investigates  337
11 pm	O’Reilly  738	Special  655	Investigates  422
PRIME TIME	1.543	633	556
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data