Wednesday Cable Ratings: Chris Hayes #1 in Demo on MSNBC

All In with Chris Hayes was the most-watched show across MSNBC’s prime time schedule in the 25-54 demo Wednesday night with 211K viewers. Hardball with Chris Matthews was a close second with 209K and PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton was third with 198K. Perennial frontrunner The Rachel Maddow Show was fourth with 195K.
Rachel Maddow maintained the top spot in total viewers with 839K, followed by Chris Matthews with 833K and then Chris Hayes with 737K.
Here are the rest of your Wednesday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
268 |
New Day
64 |
Morning Joe
73 |
Express
51 |
| 5 pm | The Five
365 |
Blitzer
77 |
Schultz
165 |
WWYD
33 |
| 6 pm | Baier
305 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
73/83 |
Sharpton
198 |
WWYD
68 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
289 |
Burnett
84 |
Matthews
209 |
Velez-Mitchell
84 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
434 |
Cooper
111 |
Hayes
211 |
Grace
129 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
382 |
Morgan
103 |
Maddow
195 |
Dr. Drew
113 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
233 |
Cooper
96 |
O’Donnell
182 |
Minute
48 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
182 |
Burnett
79 |
Hayes
54 |
Files
105 |
| PRIME TIME | 350 | 103 | 198 | 97 |
| 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
1.088 |
New Day
208 |
Morning Joe
335 |
Express
173 |
| 5 pm | The Five
2.019 |
Blitzer
298 |
Schultz
606 |
WWYD
119 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1.881 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
318/261 |
Sharpton
592 |
WWYD
139 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.665 |
Burnett
320 |
Matthews
833 |
Velez-Mitchell
267 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.772 |
Cooper
427 |
Hayes
737 |
Grace
438 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.278 |
Morgan
413 |
Maddow
839 |
Dr. Drew
343 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.272 |
Cooper
339 |
O’Donnell
622 |
Minute
144 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
941 |
Burnett
260 |
Hayes
243 |
Files
233 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.233 | 320 | 942 | 308 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



