Tuesday Cable Ratings: Maddow Tops All Shows Except O’Reilly in Demo

MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show was the #2 highest rated show across all of cable news in the 25-54 demo Tuesday night with 294K viewers. Only Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor had a higher rating in the demo with 340K.

In her 9 p.m. timeslot, Rachel Maddow was #1 in the demo, beating Fox’s The Kelly File, which had 292K viewers and CNN’s Smerconish, which had 193K. However, in total viewers, Megyn Kelly remained #1 with 1.936M, compared to Maddow’s 970K.

Here are the rest of your Tuesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  210	New Day  92	Morning Joe  150	Express  84
5 pm	The Five  281	Blitzer  185	Schultz  146	Files  44
6 pm	Baier  247	Blitzer  229	Sharpton  125	Files  63
7 pm	Van Susteren  226	Burnett  181	Matthews  211	Velez-Mitchell  100
8 pm	O’Reilly  340	Cooper  196	Hayes  190	Grace  130
9 pm	Kelly  292	Smerconish  193	Maddow  294	Dr. Drew  134
10 pm	Hannity  212	Lemon  173	O’Donnell  198	Files  89
11 pm	O’Reilly  234	Cooper  193	Hayes  83	Files  145
PRIME TIME	281	187	229	118
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  979	New Day  309	Morning Joe  400	Express  195
5 pm	The Five  1.803	Blitzer  612	Schultz  608	Files  71
6 pm	Baier  1.815	Blitzer  705	Sharpton  557	Files  131
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.502	Burnett  678	Matthews  929	Velez-Mitchell  301
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.247	Cooper  585	Hayes  696	Grace  437
9 pm	Kelly  1.936	Smerconish  536	Maddow  970	Dr. Drew  324
10 pm	Hannity  1.094	Lemon  426	O’Donnell  590	Files  311
11 pm	O’Reilly  860	Cooper  336	Hayes  272	Files  409
PRIME TIME	1.767	516	754	357
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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