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 | ||||