Thursday Ratings: Rachel Maddow Wins The Night On MSNBC
Thursday evening, Rachel Maddow beat out all of her colleagues at MSNBC in total viewers and the key 25-54 year-old demo.
Racking up 1.59 million total viewers, Maddow beat out second place MSNBCer Lawrence O’Donnell‘s 1.45 million. In the demo, Maddow’s 595k viewers was enough to beat out O’Donnell’s 520k and Ed Schultz‘s 441k.
Over at Fox News, Bill O’Reilly beat out his colleagues in both the demo and total viewership. At CNN, Anderson Cooper secured a network-wide victory in the demo, while Erin Burnett won in total viewership.
Here are the rest of your Thursday night ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | The5
438 |
Blitzer
128 |
Matthews
348 |
Express
41 |
| 6 pm | Baier
468 |
Blitzer
146 |
Sharpton
332 |
Express 52 |
| 7 pm | Shep
489 |
Burnett
172 |
Matthews
375 |
Velez-Mitchell
102 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
755 |
Cooper
183 |
Schultz
441 |
Grace
135 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
683 |
Morgan
181 |
Maddow
595 |
WWYD
77 |
| 10 pm | Van Susteren
654 |
Cooper
169 |
O’Donnell
520 |
WWYD
152 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
575 |
Burnett
164 |
Schultz
313 |
Showbiz
66 |
| TOTAL DAY | 434 | 120 | 291 | 81 |
| PRIME TIME | 697 | 178 | 519 | 121 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | The5
2.368 |
Blitzer
596 |
Matthews
1.202 |
Express 144 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.651 |
Blitzer
470 |
Sharpton
1.141 |
Express 215 |
| 7 pm | Smith
2.401 |
Burnett
533 |
Matthews
1.198 |
Velez-Mitchell
215 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
3.935 |
Cooper
500 |
Schultz
1.370 |
Grace
452 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
3.080 |
Morgan
503 |
Maddow
1.589 |
WWYD
282 |
| 10 pm | Greta
2.867 |
Cooper
389 |
O’Donnell
1.448 |
WWYD
363 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.907 |
Burnett
303 |
Schultz
832 |
Showbiz
223 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1.968 | 395 | 858 | 242 |
| PRIME TIME | 3.302 | 464 | 1.470 | 366 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



