With Don Lemon at the helm as Baltimore’s 10 p.m. curfew went into effect Tuesday night, CNN had the highest-rated hour in the 25-54 demo across all of cable news with 1.144M viewers. During that same hour, Fox News’ Hannity came in second with 853K and MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell was third with 280K. CNN beat Fox News in the primetime demo for the second consecutive night, 769K to 767K.
In total viewers, Lemon’s 2.719M came close to beating Sean Hannity‘s 2.782M, but overall Fox’s primetime average of 2.938M far outpaced CNN’s 1.854M. However, during the 11 p.m. hour, CNN did beat Fox, 1.712M to 1.598M in total viewers.
Here are the rest of your Tuesday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends 372 | New Day 254 | Morning Joe 125 | |
| 5 pm | The Five 454 | Blitzer 376 | Schultz 97 | |
| 6 pm | Baier 372 | Blitzer 392 | Sharpton 137 | |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren 416 | Burnett 459 | Matthews 202 | |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly 661 | Cooper 517 | Hayes 163 | |
| 9 pm | Kelly 786 | Cooper 639 | Maddow 222 | |
| 10 pm | Hannity 853 | Tonight 1.144 | O’Donnell 280 | |
| 11 pm | Hannity 532 | Tonight 829 | O’Donnell 181 | |
| PRIME TIME | 767 | 769 | 222 | |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends 1.309 | New Day 658 | Morning Joe 472 | |
| 5 pm | The Five 2.257 | Blitzer 1.195 | Schultz 546 | |
| 6 pm | Baier 2.137 | Blitzer 1.100 | Sharpton 700 | |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren 1.899 | Burnett 1.207 | Matthews 772 | |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly 3.020 | Cooper 1.264 | Hayes 495 | |
| 9 pm | Kelly 2.990 | Cooper 1.561 | Maddow 648 | |
| 10 pm | Hannity 2.782 | Tonight 2.719 | O’Donnell 717 | |
| 11 pm | Hannity 1.598 | Tonight 1.712 | O’Donnell 463 | |
| PRIME TIME | 2.938 | 1.854 | 620 | |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||