Tuesday Cable Ratings: Hannity #1 in Demo with Trump Interview

With his hour-long, in-person interview with Donald Trump Tuesday night, Sean Hannity scored a rare win in the 25-54 demo over Fox’s Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly.
The 10 p.m. program was #1 for all of cable news with 628K in the demo, compared to 503K for The Kelly File and 421K for The O’Reilly Factor (with fill-in host Eric Bolling.) In total viewers, Kelly was #1 overall with 2.678M, followed by O’Reilly with 2.479M and then Hannity with 2.232M.
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
248 |
New Day
126 |
Morning Joe
123 |
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| 5 pm | The Five
244 |
Blitzer
136 |
MSNBC Live
61 |
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| 6 pm | Baier
302 |
Blitzer
155 |
Sharpton
99 |
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| 7 pm | Van Susteren
273 |
Burnett
212 |
Matthews
194 |
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| 8 pm | O’Reilly
421 |
Cooper
204 |
Hayes
176 |
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| 9 pm | Kelly
503 |
Cooper
145 |
Maddow
146 |
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| 10 pm | Hannity
628 |
Lemon
170 |
O’Donnell
101 |
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| 11 pm | O’Reilly
238 |
Cooper
145 |
Hayes
100 |
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| PRIME TIME | 517 | 173 | 141 | |
| 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
1.044 |
New Day
391 |
Morning Joe
534 |
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| 5 pm | The Five
2.128 |
Blitzer
525 |
MSNBC Live
470 |
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| 6 pm | Baier
2.194 |
Blitzer
565 |
Sharpton
624 |
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| 7 pm | Van Susteren
2.090 |
Burnett
772 |
Matthews
975 |
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| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.479 |
Cooper
781 |
Hayes
727 |
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| 9 pm | Kelly
2.678 |
Cooper
537 |
Maddow
757 |
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| 10 pm | Hannity
2.232 |
Lemon
548 |
O’Donnell
614 |
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| 11 pm | O’Reilly
933 |
Cooper
447 |
Hayes
369 |
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| PRIME TIME | 2.463 | 622 | 699 | |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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