CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 averaged just 63K viewers in the 25-54 demo and 269K total viewers Wednesday night, marking the show’s second-lowest total viewer rating ever. The only time Cooper’s show dropped lower than that was on December 6, 2013 when the show had 255K total viewers. Overall, CNN averaged 78K viewers in the demo during primetime, putting it in fourth place behind, Fox News, MSNBC and HLN.
Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor was #1 in the demo during the 8 p.m. hour with 305K viewers, nearly five times what CNN’s Anderson Cooper had. MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes came in second with 125K and HLN’s Nancy Grace was third with 82K.
Here are the rest of your Wednesday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends 201 | New Day 57 | Morning Joe 69 | Express 136 |
| 5 pm | The Five 243 | Blitzer 72 | Schultz 67 | WWYD 55 |
| 6 pm | Baier 179 | Blitzer/Crossfire 99/46 | Sharpton 102 | Dr. Drew 22 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren 183 | Burnett 89 | Matthews 104 | Velez-Mitchell 42 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly 305 | Cooper 63 | Hayes 125 | Grace 82 |
| 9 pm | Kelly 241 | Bourdain 86 | Maddow 111 | Dr. Drew 76 |
| 10 pm | Hannity 235 | Lemon 84 | O’Donnell 89 | Files 101 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly 155 | Cooper 81 | Hayes 59 | Files 202 |
| PRIME TIME | 260 | 78 | 108 | 87 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends 963 | New Day 186 | Morning Joe 316 | Express 286 |
| 5 pm | The Five 1.668 | Blitzer 264 | Schultz 410 | WWYD 137 |
| 6 pm | Baier 1.541 | Blitzer/Crossfire 287/219 | Sharpton 560 | Dr. Drew 66 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren 1.260 | Burnett 327 | Matthews 662 | Velez-Mitchell 114 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly 2.195 | Cooper 269 | Hayes 579 | Grace 209 |
| 9 pm | Kelly 1.740 | Bourdain 268 | Maddow 756 | Dr. Drew 172 |
| 10 pm | Hannity 1.162 | Lemon 226 | O’Donnell 400 | Files 223 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly 887 | Cooper 187 | Hayes 283 | Files 359 |
| PRIME TIME | 1.699 | 255 | 578 | 201 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||