Thursday Cable Ratings: MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Last in Demo with 56K

With just 56K viewers in the 25-54 demo Thursday night, MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell came in last place at 10 p.m. Fox’s Hannity led the way with 271K, followed by CNN Tonight with 184K and HLN’s Forensic Files with 87K.
Overall, MSNBC came in third place in both the demo and total viewers in primetime with 99K and 551K, respectively.
Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
246 |
New Day
149 |
Morning Joe
138 |
Express
118 |
| 5 pm | The Five
337 |
Blitzer
182 |
Schultz
134 |
WWYD
62 |
| 6 pm | Baier
360 |
Blitzer
229 |
Sharpton
146 |
WWYD
53 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
357 |
Burnett
254 |
Matthews
186 |
Velez-Mitchell
66 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
485 |
Cooper
206 |
Hayes
115 |
Grace
96 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
384 |
Cooper
189 |
Maddow
124 |
Dr. Drew
99 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
271 |
Tonight
184 |
O’Donnell
56 |
Files
87 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
241 |
Tonight
148 |
O’Donnell
46 |
Files
106 |
| PRIME TIME | 380 | 193 | 99 | 94 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
982 |
New Day
423 |
Morning Joe
396 |
Express
262 |
| 5 pm | The Five
1.972 |
Blitzer
550 |
Schultz
571 |
WWYD
161 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1.916 |
Blitzer
585 |
Sharpton
606 |
WWYD
126 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.873 |
Burnett
640 |
Matthews
848 |
Velez-Mitchell
157 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.700 |
Cooper
602 |
Hayes
559 |
Grace
274 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.048 |
Cooper
571 |
Maddow
650 |
Dr. Drew
254 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.378 |
Tonight
509 |
O’Donnell
440 |
Files
210 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.010 |
Tonight
440 |
O’Donnell
240 |
Files
297 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.047 | 561 | 551 | 246 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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