Tuesday Ratings: Matthews Gets Blitzed, Situation Room Tops Hardball In Demo

With its standout coverage of the dramatic developments in the Trayvon Martin case with — in Jeffrey Toobin‘s words — one of the wackiest press conferences ever seen with George Zimmerman‘s former lawyers, Wolf Blitzer‘s The Situation Room topped Hardball in the demo Tuesday night. Blitzer beat Matthews (164,000 to 117,000) though Hardball had more total viewers.

Here are the rest of your Tuesday night ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  371	Blitzer  164	Matthews  117	Special  115
6 pm	Baier  355	King, USA  88	Sharpton  203	Prime  100
7 pm	Shep  409	Burnett  88	Matthews  176	Velez-Mitchell  166
8 pm	O’Reilly  624	Cooper  150	Schultz  193	Grace  211
9 pm	Hannity  535	Morgan  13o	Maddow  350	Dr. Drew  98
10 pm	Van Susteren  460	Cooper  169	O’Donnell  318	Grace  85
11 pm	O’Reilly  499	Burnett  145	Schultz  195	Showbiz  66
TOTAL DAY	343	120	160	92
PRIME TIME	540	150	287	129
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  1.710	Blitzer  676	Matthews  733	Special  250
6 pm	Baier  1.901	King, USA  331	Sharpton  770	Prime  264
7 pm	Smith  1.821	Burnett  307	Matthews  808	Velez-Mitchell  442
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.693	Cooper  520	Schultz  880	Grace  531
9 pm	Hannity  2.191	Morgan  523	Maddow  1.124	DrDrew  301
10 pm	Greta  1.753	Cooper  577	O’Donnell  1.062	Grace  267
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.274	Burnett  377	Schultz  505	Showbiz  214
TOTAL DAY	1.376	411	547	231
PRIME TIME	2.217	540	1.022	359
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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