Thursday Cable Ratings: Anderson Cooper Helps CNN Beat MSNBC in Primetime Demo

With ongoing coverage of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Thursday night, Anderson Cooper helped lift CNN above MSNBC in the 25-54 demo in prime time. Anderson Cooper 360 was the only CNN to beat MSNBC in prime time, but he did it by enough to put the network’s average in #2, behind Fox News.

Cooper had 287K viewers in the demo compared to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who had 164K. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell beat CNN’s Chicagoland and special coverage of the plane search at 9 and 10pm ET, respectively. In total viewers, Cooper also beat Hayes but it was not enough to keep CNN out of third place there.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  232	New Day  169	Morning Joe  97	Express  112
5 pm	The Five  266	Blitzer  122	Schultz  112	Detective  25
6 pm	Baier  253	Blitzer  168	Sharpton  145	Detective  22
7 pm	Van Susteren  223	Burnett  154	Matthews  171	Velez-Mitchell  45
8 pm	O’Reilly  421	Cooper  287	Hayes  164	Grace  92
9 pm	Kelly  387	Tapper  142	Maddow  198	Dr. Drew  96
10 pm	Boston Special  247	Chicagoland  132	O’Donnell  148	Files  115
11 pm	O’Reilly  254	Lemon  134	Hayes  82	Files  193
PRIME TIME	352	187	170	101
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.003	New Day  502	Morning Joe  310	Express  208
5 pm	The Five  1.683	Blitzer  451	Schultz  510	Detective  110
6 pm	Baier  1.642	Blitzer  549	Sharpton  519	Detective  134
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.495	Burnett  538	Matthews  806	Velez-Mitchell  199
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.560	Cooper  837	Hayes  650	Grace  343
9 pm	Kelly  2.203	Tapper  597	Maddow  877	Dr. Drew  315
10 pm	Boston Special  1.327	Chicagoland  366	O’Donnell  624	Files  369
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.025	Lemon  417	Hayes  251	Files  443
PRIME TIME	2.044	600	717	342
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data