Tuesday Cable Ratings: CNN’s Blitzer More Than Doubles Sharpton in Demo

MSNBC’s PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton came in distant third place in the 25-54 demo ratings Tuesday afternoon, averaging just 82K viewers. CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer more than doubled Sharpton’s numbers with 200K and Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier more than tripled them with 292K.
In total viewers, Bret Baier was #1 with 2.295M while Wolf Blitzer was #2 with 550K and Al Sharpton was third with 471K.
Here are the rest of your Tuesday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
279 |
New Day
131 |
Morning Joe
64 |
Express
125 |
| 5 pm | The Five
316 |
Blitzer
153 |
Schultz
67 |
WWYD
29 |
| 6 pm | Baier
292 |
Blitzer
200 |
Sharpton
82 |
Files
53 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
231 |
Burnett
193 |
Matthews
181 |
Special Report
54 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
411 |
Cooper
205 |
Hayes
147 |
Grace
91 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
372 |
Special Report
203 |
Maddow
187 |
Dr. Drew
67 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
338 |
Tonight
151 |
O’Donnell
147 |
Files
179 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
275 |
Cooper
137 |
Hayes
86 |
Files
236 |
| PRIME TIME | 374 | 186 | 160 | 112 |
| 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
1.062 |
New Day
315 |
Morning Joe
296 |
Express
235 |
| 5 pm | The Five
2.307 |
Blitzer
541 |
Schultz
444 |
WWYD
91 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.295 |
Blitzer
550 |
Sharpton
471 |
Files
131 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.895 |
Burnett
607 |
Matthews
822 |
Special Report
126 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.942 |
Cooper
529 |
Hayes
675 |
Grace
281 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.362 |
Special Report
526 |
Maddow
996 |
Dr. Drew
204 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.590 |
Tonight
394 |
O’Donnell
682 |
Files
417 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.099 |
Cooper
311 |
Hayes
260 |
Files
545 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.300 | 483 | 784 | 301 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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