Thursday Cable News Ratings: MSNBC’s O’Donnell Beats Fox’s Van Susteren in Demo

Thursday night during the 10pm hour, MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell beat Fox’s On the Record with Greta Van Susteren in the 25-54 demo. O’Donnell was #1 in his time slot with 223K viewers, while Van Susteren was #2 with 211K. CNN’s AC360 Later was a distant 3rd with 99K in the demo.

O’Donnell was also the highest rated show across MSNBC’s primetime lineup in the demo, ahead of The Rachel Maddow Show, which had 190K viewers. In total viewers at 10pm, Van Susteren came out ahead of O’Donnell with 1.267M viewers to his 808K.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  282	New Day  113	Morning Joe  132	Express  122
5 pm	The Five  368	Blitzer  102	Schultz  166	Express  79
6 pm	Baier  311	Blitzer/Crossfire  98/104	Sharpton  123	Express  54
7 pm	Smith  295	Burnett  111	Matthews  198	Velez-Mitchell  35
8 pm	O’Reilly  371	Cooper  112	Hayes  123	Grace  63
9 pm	Hannity  352	Morgan  108	Maddow  190	Dr. Drew  61
10 pm	Van Susteren  211	Cooper  99	O’Donnell  223	After Dark  87
11 pm	O’Reilly  287	Cooper  79	Hayes  153	Showbiz  80
PRIME TIME	312	107	179	70
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.142	New Day  321	Morning Joe  438	Express  217
5 pm	The Five  1.986	Blitzer  478	Schultz  682	Express  189
6 pm	Baier  1.995	Blitzer/Crossfire  370/282	Sharpton  697	Express  172
7 pm	Smith  1.493	Burnett  360	Matthews  887	Velez-Mitchell  191
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.430	Cooper  492	Hayes  617	Grace  227
9 pm	Hannity  1.688	Morgan  414	Maddow  809	Dr. Drew  214
10 pm	Van Susteren  1.267	Cooper  311	O’Donnell  808	After Dark  194
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.030	Cooper  266	Hayes  448	Showbiz  156
PRIME TIME	1.800	406	748	211
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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