Tuesday Cable News Ratings: Piers Morgan #1 on CNN, Beats MSNBC’s Maddow in Demo

Piers Morgan’s exclusive interview with Pastor Rick Warren helped him achieve the highest ratings of the night across CNN’s primetime schedule in the 25-54 demo. Morgan had 216K viewers in the demo at 9pm, edging out MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who had 215K.

In total viewers, Maddow beat Morgan 800K to 661K. In both categories, Fox News’ Sean Hannity was #1 at 9pm with 289K in the demo and 1.802M total viewers.

Here are the rest of your Tuesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  288	New Day  133	Morning Joe  140	Express  101
5 pm	The Five  356	Blitzer  129	Schultz  158	Express  33
6 pm	Baier  265	Blitzer/Crossfire  96/97	Sharpton  168	Express  70
7 pm	Smith  259	Burnett  100	Matthews  212	Velez-Mitchell  74
8 pm	O’Reilly  428	Cooper  206	Obama Preview  166	Grace  91
9 pm	Hannity  289	Morgan  216	Maddow  215	Dr. Drew  82
10 pm	Van Susteren  266	Cooper  164	O’Donnell  189	After Dark  67
11 pm	O’Reilly  379	Burnett  101	Hayes  94	Showbiz  84
PRIME TIME	328	195	190	80
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.410	New Day  360	Morning Joe  473	Express  220
5 pm	The Five  1.899	Blitzer  497	Schultz  612	Express  134
6 pm	Baier  1.857	Blitzer/Crossfire  348/370	Sharpton  668	Express  179
7 pm	Smith  1.393	Burnett  394	Matthews  787	Velez-Mitchell  222
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.929	Cooper  716	Hayes  581	Grace  295
9 pm	Hannity  1.802	Morgan  661	Maddow  800	Dr. Drew  265
10 pm	Van Susteren  1.417	Cooper  426	O’Donnell  736	After Dark  200
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.244	Burnett  359	Hayes  331	Showbiz  204
PRIME TIME	2.066	601	710	253
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data