Thursday Cable Ratings: Mike Rowe’s Season 2 Premiere #1 in Demo on CNN

With the premiere of its second season Thursday night, Mike Rowe’s Somebody’s Gotta Do It was the highest-rated show across CNN’s primetime schedule in both the 25-54 demo and total viewers. In the demo, Mike Rowe had 316K viewers, nearly beating Fox News’ The Kelly File, which had 317K. For all of cable news, the CNN show came in third in the demo behind The O’Reilly Factor (with guest host Eric Bolling) and The Kelly File.

In total viewers, Rowe’s show came in third place during it’s 9 p.m. time slot with 651K, but still rated higher than every other show on CNN except Anderson Cooper 360, which had 656K viewers at 8 p.m. However, Somebody’s Gotta Do It did see a 38% drop in the demo and a 31% decrease in total viewers compared to its first season debut.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  262	New Day  103	Morning Joe  75
5 pm	The Five  292	Blitzer  142	Schultz  38
6 pm	Baier  318	Blitzer  164	Sharpton  63
7 pm	Van Susteren  279	Burnett  168	Matthews  146
8 pm	O’Reilly  399	Cooper  223	Hayes  96
9 pm	Kelly  317	Rowe  316	Maddow  164
10 pm	Hannity  270	Tonight  220	O’Donnell  116
11 pm	O’Reilly  203	Cooper  191	Hayes  80
PRIME TIME	330	253	125
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.005	New Day  337	Morning Joe  383
5 pm	The Five  1.622	Blitzer  561	Schultz  476
6 pm	Baier  1.840	Blitzer  531	Sharpton  568
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.672	Burnett  606	Matthews  837
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.096	Cooper  656	Hayes  589
9 pm	Kelly  1.999	Rowe  651	Maddow  813
10 pm	Hannity  1.026	Tonight  512	O’Donnell  503
11 pm	O’Reilly  709	Cooper  425	Hayes  321
PRIME TIME	1.708	606	635
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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