Thursday Cable Ratings: CNN Wins in Demo with The Sixties

CNN scored big Thursday night with the premiere episode of the new original series The Sixties. The first episode, titled “When Television Came of Age,” came in first place in the 25-54 demo at 9 p.m. with 284K viewers, ahead of Fox News’ The Kelly File, which had 273K. The encore showing at 10 p.m. was also #1 in the demo with 243K, ahead of Fox’s Hannity, which had 239K.

In total viewers, Fox News remained in #1 during the 9 and 10 p.m. hours, but The Sixties still brought far more viewers than CNN typically gets at 9 with the show averaging 1.390M. Overall, CNN came in second place in primetime with 207K in the demo and 914K total viewers.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  221	New Day  67	Morning Joe  69	Express  116
5 pm	The Five  249	Blitzer  66	Schultz  64	WWYD  45
6 pm	Baier  277	Blitzer/Crossfire  50/58	Sharpton  98	Dr. Drew  43
7 pm	Van Susteren  249	Burnett  91	Matthews  121	Velez-Mitchell  97
8 pm	O’Reilly  329	Cooper  95	Hayes  111	Grace  180
9 pm	Kelly  273	Sixties  284	Maddow  115	Dr. Drew  131
10 pm	Hannity  239	Sixties  243	O’Donnell  104	Files  95
11 pm	O’Reilly  247	Cooper  130	Hayes  81	Files  161
PRIME TIME	280	207	110	135
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.048	New Day  232	Morning Joe  284	Express  202
5 pm	The Five  1.758	Blitzer  377	Schultz  432	WWYD  107
6 pm	Baier  1.649	Blitzer/Crossfire  300/236	Sharpton  503	Dr. Drew  104
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.370	Burnett  315	Matthews  687	Velez-Mitchell  238
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.364	Cooper  406	Hayes  586	Grace  411
9 pm	Kelly  1.919	Sixties  1.390	Maddow  723	Dr. Drew  267
10 pm	Hannity  1.428	Sixties  946	O’Donnell  532	Files  209
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.284	Cooper  438	Hayes  323	Files  391
PRIME TIME	1.904	914	614	296
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data