Thursday Ratings: Piers Morgan Wins The Night At CNN

Thursday evening, Piers Morgan won the night at CNN, beating all his colleagues’ programming in both the demo and total viewership.

In the key demo of 25-54 year olds, Morgan (283k) beat out the next-best demo ratings in Anderson Cooper (225k). And in total viewership, Morgan’s 894k outranked Cooper’s 689k total viewers at 10 p.m.

Over at MSNBC, Rachel Maddow beat all her colleagues in both the demo and total viewership. Her 726k viewers in the demo was enough to beat Lawrence O’Donnell‘s 584k in the demo. Additionally, her 1.84M total viewers won the night at MSNBC, beating out the next-best viewership in O’Donnell’s 1.56M.

And then on Fox News, Sean Hannity won the night in demo, while Bill O’Reilly won in total viewers.

Here are the rest of your Thursday night ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  496	Blitzer  117	Matthews  271	Express  37
6 pm	Baier  481	Blitzer  134	Sharpton  324	Express   42
7 pm	Shep  428	Burnett  176	Matthews  336	Velez-Mitchell  35
8 pm	O’Reilly  733	Cooper  225	Schultz  542	Grace  100
9 pm	Hannity  886	Morgan  283	Maddow  726	Dr. Drew  104
10 pm	Van Susteren  639	Cooper  195	O’Donnell  584	Grace  42
11 pm	O’Reilly  563	Burnett  130	Schultz  359	Showbiz  60
TOTAL DAY	473	142	261	68
PRIME TIME	753	235	588	82
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  2.242	Blitzer  412	Matthews  1.020	Express   118
6 pm	Baier  2.567	Blitzer  393	Sharpton  1.092	Express   108
7 pm	Smith  2.355	Burnett  472	Matthews  1.119	Velez-Mitchell  174
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.865	Cooper  662	Schultz  1.394	Grace  353
9 pm	Hannity  3.729	Morgan  894	Maddow  1.839	DrDrew  268
10 pm	Greta  2.753	Cooper  689	O’Donnell  1.557	Grace  168
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.758	Burnett  438	Schultz  911	Showbiz  192
TOTAL DAY	1.931	431	803	184
PRIME TIME	3.457	748	1.582	263
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data