Tuesday Cable News Ratings: MSNBC’s Matthews Beats Fox’s Van Susteren in Demo

Hardball with Chris Matthews was #1 in the 25-54 demo in his 7pm time slot Tuesday night, topping Fox’s On The Record with Greta Van Susteren. Matthews pulled in 280K viewers in the demo while Van Susteren had 274K. CNN’s Out Front with Erin Burnett was third with 104K.

Van Susteren was #1 in total viewers at 7pm with 2.023M, followed by Matthews with 952K and Burnett with 409K. In addition to winning his time slot, Matthews was the highest-rated show across MSNBC’s lineup in the demo.

Here are the rest of your Tuesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  304	New Day  76	Morning Joe  119	Express  118
5 pm	The Five  442	Blitzer  154	Schultz  121	WWYD  60
6 pm	Baier  399	Blitzer/Crossfire  146/119	Sharpton  193	Showbiz  60
7 pm	Van Susteren  274	Burnett  104	Matthews  280	Velez-Mitchell  83
8 pm	O’Reilly  467	Cooper  126	Hayes  240	Grace  99
9 pm	Kelly  474	Morgan  185	Maddow  258	Dr. Drew  110
10 pm	Hannity  406	Ted Turner  160	O’Donnell  273	WWYD  69
11 pm	O’Reilly  459	Burnett  113	Hayes  119	Showbiz  42
PRIME TIME	450	157	257	93
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.241	New Day  285	Morning Joe  397	Express  219
5 pm	The Five  2.367	Blitzer  604	Schultz  648	WWYD  157
6 pm	Baier  2.350	Blitzer/Crossfire  513/337	Sharpton  706	Showbiz  147
7 pm	Van Susteren  2.023	Burnett  409	Matthews  952	Velez-Mitchell  191
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.099	Cooper  519	Hayes  753	Grace  317
9 pm	Kelly  2.586	Morgan  513	Maddow  1.026	Dr. Drew  273
10 pm	Hannity  2.063	Ted Turner  489	O’Donnell  816	WWYD  131
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.608	Burnett  317	Hayes  418	Showbiz  117
PRIME TIME	2.590	507	865	240
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data