Thursday Cable News Ratings: Fox’s Kelly #1 in Demo for All of Cable News

For the second time in her premiere week in primetime, Fox’s Megyn Kelly held the top spot in all of cable news for the 25-54 demo last night, besting fellow Fox hosts Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. The Kelly File brought in 376K in the demo, beating not only her 9pm competition of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow (288K) and CNN’s Piers Morgan (157K) but also the rest of the cable news schedule.

Overall in the demo, Hannity at 10pm was #2 with 372K and The O’Reilly Factor at 8pm was #3 with 343K. In total viewers, O’Reilly was on top with 2.755M, Kelly was second with 2.400M and Bret Baier was third at 6pm with 2.118M.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  276	New Day  105	Morning Joe  158	Express  108
5 pm	The Five  311	Blitzer  212	Schultz  134	Express  45
6 pm	Baier  348	Blitzer/Crossfire  291/235	Sharpton  152	Express  59
7 pm	Van Susteren  292	Burnett  188	Matthews  255	Velez-Mitchell  56
8 pm	O’Reilly  343	Cooper  249	Hayes  179	Grace  98
9 pm	Kelly  376	Morgan  157	Maddow  288	Dr. Drew  107
10 pm	Hannity  372	Cooper  133	O’Donnell  255	After Dark  94
11 pm	O’Reilly  262	Tapper/Crossfire  88/89	Hayes  153	Showbiz  78
PRIME TIME	364	180	241	100
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.147	New Day  271	Morning Joe  505	Express  206
5 pm	The Five  2.083	Blitzer  711	Schultz  882	Express  183
6 pm	Baier  2.118	Blitzer/Crossfire  850/682	Sharpton  846	Express  148
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.783	Burnett  631	Matthews  1.172	Velez-Mitchell  139
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.755	Cooper  734	Hayes  850	Grace  243
9 pm	Kelly  2.400	Morgan  530	Maddow  1.136	Dr. Drew  322
10 pm	Hannity  1.767	Cooper  414	O’Donnell  1.005	After Dark  249
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.080	Tapper/Crossfire  298/363	Hayes  478	Showbiz  241
PRIME TIME	2.311	559	1.001	272
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data