Thursday Cable Ratings: Kelly Tops O’Reilly in Demo and Total Viewers

For the third time this week last night, Fox News’ The Kelly File came out ahead of The O’Reilly Factor in the 25-54 demo. But this time, Megyn Kelly also beat Bill O’Reilly in total viewers, making her show the most-watched cable news show overall in primetime. Kelly, who hosted six of Bowe Bergdahl’s platoon-mates for an exclusive interview, averaged 469K viewers in the demo and 2.980M total viewers.

O’Reilly came in second with 434K in the demo and 2.658M total viewers. This marked only the second time ever that Kelly has gotten more total viewers than O’Reilly.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The Five  246	Blitzer  45	Schultz  68	WWYD  69
6 pm	Baier  287	Blitzer/Crossfire  59/63	Sharpton  126	Dr. Drew  60
7 pm	Van Susteren  229	Burnett  85	Matthews  151	Velez-Mitchell  87
8 pm	O’Reilly  434	Cooper  143	Hayes  131	Grace  93
9 pm	Kelly  469	Sixties  265	Maddow  180	Dr. Drew  109
10 pm	Hannity  361	Sixties  121	O’Donnell  140	Files  144
11 pm	O’Reilly  339	Cooper  149	Hayes  98	Files  200
PRIME TIME	422	176	150	116
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The Five  1.874	Blitzer  259	Schultz  468	WWYD  116
6 pm	Baier  1.925	Blitzer/Crossfire  257/207	Sharpton  599	Dr. Drew  108
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.548	Burnett  285	Matthews  813	Velez-Mitchell  148
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.658	Cooper  491	Hayes  613	Grace  277
9 pm	Kelly  2.980	Sixties  866	Maddow  724	Dr. Drew  279
10 pm	Hannity  1.797	Sixties  587	O’Donnell  554	Files  306
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.411	Cooper  436	Hayes  308	Files  385
PRIME TIME	2.479	648	630	287
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data