Thursday Cable News Ratings: CNN’s Blitzer/Crossfire Beat Fox’s The Five/Baier in Demo

Wednesday afternoon between the hours of 5 and 7pm, CNN came out ahead of Fox News in the 25-54 demo. At 5pm, CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer had 490K in the demo while Fox’s The Five had 433K. At 6pm, Blitzer 484K for the first half-hour and Crossfire had 327K for the second. Fox’s Special Report with Bret Baier had 325K.

The Fox programs were #1 in total viewers with The Five scoring 2.116M and Baier at 1.918M.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The Five  433	Blitzer  490	Schultz  207	Express  36
6 pm	Baier  325	Blitzer/Crossfire  484/327	Sharpton  154	Express  33
7 pm	Smith  258	Burnett  321	Matthews  279	Velez-Mitchell  51
8 pm	O’Reilly  485	Cooper  368	Hayes  258	Grace  97
9 pm	Hannity  467	Morgan  265	Maddow  344	Dr. Drew  111
10 pm	Van Susteren  278	Cooper  226	O’Donnell  236	After Dark  98
11 pm	O’Reilly  296	Tapper/Crossfire  173/220	Hayes  144	Showbiz  82
PRIME TIME	410	286	280	102
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The Five  2.116	Blitzer  1.384	Schultz  919	Express  100
6 pm	Baier  1.918	Blitzer/Crossfire  1.321/897	Sharpton  765	Express  68
7 pm	Smith  1.650	Burnett  780	Matthews  1.101	Velez-Mitchell  134
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.876	Cooper  1.084	Hayes  975	Grace  235
9 pm	Hannity  2.209	Morgan  917	Maddow  1.310	Dr. Drew  330
10 pm	Van Susteren  1.616	Cooper  651	O’Donnell  891	After Dark  235
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.248	Tapper/Crossfire  538/544	Hayes  474	Showbiz  330
PRIME TIME	2.244	884	1.059	262
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data