Friday Ratings: Your Weekend Is Ushered In By Fox News And MSNBC

Fox News routinely wins the cable news prime time ratings, and MSNBC has a string of second-place finishes under its belt, but it’s rare to get a night with both channels snagging all of the first and second-place finishes in the 25-54 year-old demo. That was the case Friday night, as the networks ran the table in the ratings. Ed Schultz‘s second-place finish at 8 p.m. — his 166,000 demo viewers just eked by Anderson Cooper‘s 162,000 — was the closest MSNBC got to dipping into third place on the night.

Some other fun facts from Friday:

Average time slot finish:

FOX: 1
MSNBC: 2
CNN: 3.14
HLN: 3.86

The rest of your Friday night ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  327	Blitzer  118	Matthews  180	Special  57
6 pm	Baier  441	King, USA  64	Sharpton  147	Prime  107
7 pm	Shep  320	Burnett  119	Matthews  200	Issues  73
8 pm	O’Reilly  588	Cooper  162	Schultz  166	Grace  151
9 pm	Hannity  444	Piers  152	Maddow  278	Dr. Drew  66
10 pm	Greta  382	Cooper  157	MSNBC Inv.  187	Behar  91
11 pm	O’Reilly  260	Burnett  145	MSNBC Inv.  155	Showbiz  105
TOTAL DAY	287	118	129	84
PRIME TIME	471	157	211	101
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  1,454	Blitzer  643	Matthews  816	Special  219
6 pm	Baier  1,765	King, USA  390	Sharpton  749	Prime  329
7 pm	Shep  1.402	Burnett  498	Matthews  856	Issues 320
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.723	Cooper  586	Schultz  861	Grace  542
9 pm	Hannity  1.960	Piers  612	Maddow  1,018	DrDrew  309
10 pm	Greta  1323	Cooper  602	MSNBC Inv.  441	Behar  310
11 pm	O’Reilly  926	Burnett  449	MSNBC Inv.  349	Showbiz  264
TOTAL DAY	1,113	437	466	234
PRIME TIME	2,007	601	773	379
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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