CNN’s ratings in the 25-54 demo during primetime dropped to an average of just 81K Wednesday night, putting the network in last place behind Fox, MSNBC and HLN. With 88K viewers in the demo, Anderson Cooper 360 led off CNN at 8 p.m., followed by CNN Tonight with Bill Weir, which had 71K and CNN Special Report with Don Lemon, which had 83K. Just last Wednesday, CNN was averaging more than double those numbers with 170K in the demo.
Fox News led the primetime demo with 277K, followed by MSNBC with 140K and HLN with 90K. In total viewers, CNN came in third place with 384K during primetime. Fox was #1 with 1.653M and MSNBC was second 614K. HLN came in last in total viewers with 277K.
Here are the rest of your Wednesday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends 226 | New Day 77 | Morning Joe 99 | Express 94 |
| 5 pm | The Five 312 | Blitzer 110 | Schultz 122 | Detective 15 |
| 6 pm | Baier 349 | Blitzer/Crossfire 96/81 | Sharpton 117 | Detective 27 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren 277 | Burnett 77 | Matthews 155 | Velez-Mitchell 79 |
| 8 pm | O& 291 | Cooper 88 | Hayes 117 | Grace 90 |
| 9 pm | Kelly 297 | Weir 71 | Maddow 166 | Dr. Drew 78 |
| 10 pm | Hannity 235 | Lemon 83 | O’Donnell 136 | Files 102 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly 292 | Cooper 109 | Hayes 73 | Files 235 |
| PRIME TIME | 277 | 81 | 140 | 90 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends 938 | New Day 292 | Morning Joe 322 | Express 207 |
| 5 pm | The Five 1.724 | Blitzer 456 | Schultz 481 | Detective 50 |
| 6 pm | Baier 1.778 | Blitzer/Crossfire 421/311 | Sharpton 556 | Detective 107 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren 1.536 | Burnett 298 | Matthews 710 | Velez-Mitchell 217 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly 1.911 | Cooper 438 | Hayes 540 | Grace 335 |
| 9 pm | Kelly 1.812 | Weir 342 | Maddow 728 | Dr. Drew 249 |
| 10 pm | Hannity 1.211 | Lemon 371 | O’Donnell 573 | Files 247 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly 986 | Cooper 342 | Hayes 285 | Files 459 |
| PRIME TIME | 1.653 | 384 | 614 | 277 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||