Thursday Cable Ratings: Hannity #1 in Primetime Demo for All Cable News

Fox News’ Sean Hannity had the highest rated show in the 25-54 demo across all of cable news in primetime Thursday night, drawing 256K viewers at 10 p.m. The Kelly File, also on Fox, came in second place with 238K in the demo. The O’Reilly Factor with fill-in host Laura Ingraham had 214K.

In total viewers, The O’Reilly Factor was #1 overall with 1.891M, followed by The Kelly File with 1.761M. At 6 p.m., Special Report with Bret Baier had 1.730M viewers.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  263	New Day  67	Morning Joe  114	Express  93
5 pm	The Five  220	Blitzer  56	Schultz  126	Detective  39
6 pm	Baier  237	Blitzer/Crossfire  90/64	Sharpton  110	Detective  16
7 pm	Van Susteren  201	Burnett  89	Matthews  111	Velez-Mitchell  40
8 pm	O’Reilly  214	Cooper  86	Hayes  127	Grace  64
9 pm	Kelly  238	Weir  89	Maddow  151	Dr. Drew  70
10 pm	Hannity  256	Lemon  88	O’Donnell  115	Files  74
11 pm	O’Reilly  193	Cooper  58	Hayes  60	Files  101
PRIME TIME	236	88	131	69
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.035	New Day  275	Morning Joe  360	Express  188
5 pm	The Five  1.617	Blitzer  370	Schultz  482	Detective  81
6 pm	Baier  1.730	Blitzer/Crossfire  335/237	Sharpton  454	Detective  60
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.540	Burnett  337	Matthews  688	Velez-Mitchell  131
8 pm	O’Reilly  1.891	Cooper  454	Hayes  560	Grace  249
9 pm	Kelly  1.761	Weir  314	Maddow  646	Dr. Drew  199
10 pm	Hannity  1.227	Lemon  228	O’Donnell  473	Files  183
11 pm	O’Reilly  834	Cooper  172	Hayes  285	Files  262
PRIME TIME	1.627	332	559	210
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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