Thursday Cable Ratings: CNN’s Bill Weir Beats Kelly and Maddow in Demo

With continued coverage of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 plane Thursday night, CNN’s Piers Morgan Live with fill-in host Bill Weir was the highest rated show during the 9pm ET hour in the 25-54 demo, coming out ahead of Fox’s The Kelly File and MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. Weir drew 373K viewers in the demo, while Megyn Kelly had 353K and Rachel Maddow had 187K.

In total viewers, Kelly was on top with 1.988M, followed by Weir with 1.012M and Maddow with 844K. With Morgan ending his show this month, Weir, along with Jake Tapper, are scheduled to alternate as temporary replacements.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  314	New Day  209	Morning Joe  140	Express  70
5 pm	The Five  317	Blitzer  277	Schultz  81	Files  37
6 pm	Baier  303	Blitzer  281	Sharpton  112	Files  61
7 pm	Van Susteren  356	Burnett  347	Matthews  143	Velez-Mitchell  84
8 pm	O’Reilly  486	Cooper  420	Hayes  171	Grace  157
9 pm	Kelly  353	Morgan  373	Maddow  187	Dr. Drew  105
10 pm	Hannity  331	Chicagoland  172	O’Donnell  136	Files  122
11 pm	O’Reilly  277	Cooper  308	Hayes  76	Files  94
PRIME TIME	391	321	166	128
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.161	New Day  558	Morning Joe  364	Express  236
5 pm	The Five  1.982	Blitzer  939	Schultz  419	Files  129
6 pm	Baier  1.850	Blitzer  834	Sharpton  488	Files  181
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.748	Burnett  877	Matthews  675	Velez-Mitchell  220
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.948	Cooper  1.103	Hayes  665	Grace  386
9 pm	Kelly  1.988	Morgan  1.012	Maddow  844	Dr. Drew  272
10 pm	Hannity  1.478	Chicagoland  521	O’Donnell  713	Files  289
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.145	Cooper  840	Hayes  333	Files  311
PRIME TIME	2.140	883	742	315
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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