Friday Cable Ratings: MSNBC’s Schultz Last in Primetime Demo with 46K
Nov 17th, 2014, 6:24 pm

Between the hours of 5 p.m. and midnight Friday, MSNBC’s The Ed Show was the lowest rated hour on all of cable news in the 25-54 demo with just 46K viewers. During that same hour, Fox News’ The Five was the highest-rated show of the night in the demo with 416K viewers, nearly 10 times Ed Schultz’s total.
Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
263 |
New Day
85 |
Morning Joe
84 |
Express
126 |
| 5 pm | The Five
416 |
Blitzer
124 |
Schultz
46 |
WWYD
53 |
| 6 pm | Baier
385 |
Blitzer
144 |
Sharpton
85 |
Files
48 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
314 |
Burnett
149 |
Matthews
103 |
Files
67 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
386 |
Cooper
166 |
Hayes
126 |
Files
99 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
302 |
Ling
135 |
Engel
112 |
Files
107 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
272 |
Spotlight/Nichols
144/64 |
Investigates
119 |
Files
188 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
235 |
Bourdain
160 |
Investigates
119 |
Files
223 |
| PRIME TIME | 320 | 135 | 120 | 131 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
1.194 |
New Day
313 |
Morning Joe
329 |
Express
225 |
| 5 pm | The Five
2.345 |
Blitzer
390 |
Schultz
468 |
WWYD
163 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.352 |
Blitzer
369 |
Sharpton
452 |
Files
157 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.991 |
Burnett
444 |
Matthews
587 |
Files
197 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.686 |
Cooper
448 |
Hayes
639 |
Files
229 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.234 |
Ling
476 |
Engel
630 |
Files
339 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.440 |
Spotlight/Nichols
431/204 |
Investigates
283 |
Files
637 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
972 |
Bourdain
283 |
Investigates
226 |
Files
583 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.126 | 414 | 519 | 402 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



