Tuesday Cable Ratings: Megyn Kelly #1 in Demo for All of Cable News

The Kelly File was the highest-rated show in the 25-54 demo Tuesday night both on Fox News and cable news as a whole with 496K viewers. Megyn Kelly’s 9pm show beat Bill O’Reilly at 8pm, which had 452K viewers in the demo. In total viewers, The O’Reilly Factor was on top with 2.816M, followed by Kelly with 2.549M.

Also of note Tuesday night, CNN fell back into 3rd place in both the demo and total viewers after beating MSNBC for much of March. In prime time, CNN averaged 209K in the demo and 672K in total, while MSNBC had 255K in the demo and 934K total. Fox was #1 with 446K in the demo and 2.360M total.

Here are the rest of your Tuesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  237	New Day  117	Morning Joe  118	Express  57
5 pm	The Five  324	Blitzer  111	Schultz  159	Files  34
6 pm	Baier  357	Blitzer  199	Sharpton  195	Files  54
7 pm	Van Susteren  245	Burnett  212	Matthews  232	Velez-Mitchell  89
8 pm	O’Reilly  452	Cooper  219	Hayes  212	Grace  102
9 pm	Kelly  496	Smerconish  152	Maddow  303	Dr. Drew  123
10 pm	Hannity  391	Lemon  255	O’Donnell  249	Files  136
11 pm	O’Reilly  430	Cooper  232	Hayes  96	Files  134
PRIME TIME	446	209	255	120
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.009	New Day  354	Morning Joe  339	Express  145
5 pm	The Five  2.018	Blitzer  565	Schultz  696	Files  92
6 pm	Baier  1.909	Blitzer  604	Sharpton  691	Files  133
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.599	Burnett  529	Matthews  981	Velez-Mitchell  194
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.816	Cooper  681	Hayes  749	Grace  311
9 pm	Kelly  2.549	Smerconish  605	Maddow  1.149	Dr. Drew  324
10 pm	Hannity  1.707	Lemon  730	O’Donnell  904	Files  289
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.268	Cooper  615	Hayes  347	Files  275
PRIME TIME	2.360	672	934	308
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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