Friday Ratings: Rachel Maddow Top Cable News Show In Demo

On Friday, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow brought in not only her network’s highest ratings — but also beat the primetime lineups on each competing network (Fox News, CNN, HLN) in the demo. That didn’t hold true for total viewers, however, where Fox remained number one.

While MSNBC’s primetime hosts have been beating their Fox News counterparts recently, Fox remains at the top of primetime cable news ratings. Monday through Friday of last week, Fox news averaged 509,000 viewers in the demo and 2.540 million total viewers — while MSNBC averaged 489,000 viewers in the demo and 1.587 million total viewers.

Here are the rest of your Monday night ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  430	Blitzer  104	Matthews  293	Express
6 pm	Baier  418	Blitzer  109	Sharpton  361	Express  71
7 pm	Smith  414	Burnett  87	Matthews  324	Velez-Mitchell  82
8 pm	O’Reilly  561	Cooper  129	Schultz  455	Grace  95
9 pm	Hannity  408	Morgan  153	Maddow  587	Velez-Mitchell  78
10 pm	Greta   324	Cooper  154	SNL Special   306	Grace  144
11 pm	O’Reilly  370	Burnett  112	Schultz   231	Showbiz  70
TOTAL DAY	282	105	239	74
PRIME TIME	431	146	449	105
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  1.908	Blitzer  502	Matthews  1.177	Express
6 pm	Baier  2.153	Blitzer  450	Sharpton  1.146	Express  238
7 pm	Smith  1.844	Burnett  391	Matthews  1.009	Velez-Mitchell  232
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.958	Cooper  494	Schultz  1.430	Grace  334
9 pm	Hannity  2.321	Morgan  543	Maddow  1.731	Velez-Mitchell  221
10 pm	Greta   1.927	Cooper  484	SNL Special   915	Grace  284
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.306	Burnett  311	Schultz  452	Showbiz  194
TOTAL DAY	1.267	388	682	193
PRIME TIME	2.410	507	1.359	280
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data