Thursday Cable Ratings: CNN Nearly Doubles MSNBC in Primetime Demo

After coming in first place in the 25-54 demo on Wednesday night, CNN dropped to second behind Fox News Thursday as news continued to break surrounding the Paris terror attack. But with an average 276K viewers in the demo during primetime, CNN nearly doubled MSNBC’s average of 140K.

CNN’s ratings peaked during the 8 p.m. hour when Anderson Cooper 360 had 363K viewers in the demo compared to 493K for Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor and just 121K for MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes.

In total viewers, Fox News was far out in the lead with 1.931M in primetime. CNN came in second place with 772K and MSNBC was third with 658K.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  215	New Day  195	Morning Joe  90
5 pm	The Five  284	Blitzer  201	Schultz  103
6 pm	Baier  280	Blitzer  205	Sharpton  124
7 pm	Van Susteren  273	Burnett  298	Matthews  198
8 pm	O’Reilly  493	Cooper  363	Hayes  121
9 pm	Kelly  341	Cooper  290	Maddow  166
10 pm	Hannity  287	Tonight  175	O’Donnell  126
11 pm	O’Reilly  241	Tonight  145	Hayes  91
PRIME TIME	374	276	140
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  898	New Day  541	Morning Joe  385
5 pm	The Five  2.057	Blitzer  757	Schultz  592
6 pm	Baier  1.980	Blitzer  688	Sharpton  564
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.757	Burnett  813	Matthews  838
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.742	Cooper  974	Hayes  564
9 pm	Kelly  1.873	Cooper  770	Maddow  865
10 pm	Hannity  1.170	Tonight  563	O’Donnell  540
11 pm	O’Reilly  936	Tonight  410	Hayes  286
PRIME TIME	1.931	772	658
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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