Wednesday Cable Ratings: Maddow Last in Primetime Demo for CNN, Fox, MSNBC

The Rachel Maddow Show was the only primetime program that fell below 100K viewers in the 25-54 demo Wednesday night across Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, drawing just 87K during the 9 p.m. hour. Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor was #1 in the primetime demo with 488K viewers.
Rachel Maddow had more success in total viewers, coming in second place in her time slot with 660K, behind The Kelly File’s 2.069M but ahead of CNN’s new Somebody’s Gotta Do It with Mike Rowe, which had 400K.
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
301 |
New Day
117 |
Morning Joe
87 |
Express
87 |
| 5 pm | The Five
341 |
Blitzer
148 |
Schultz
82 |
WWYD
21 |
| 6 pm | Baier
317 |
Blitzer
147 |
Sharpton
104 |
Files
28 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
344 |
Burnett
129 |
Matthews
142 |
Files
77 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
488 |
Cooper
132 |
Hayes
101 |
Grace
88 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
421 |
Rowe
145 |
Maddow
87 |
Dr. Drew
66 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
303 |
Tonight
111 |
O’Donnell
127 |
Files
69 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
269 |
Cooper
102 |
Hayes
69 |
Files
141 |
| PRIME TIME | 404 | 129 | 105 | 74 |
| 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
1.117 |
New Day
373 |
Morning Joe
264 |
Express
175 |
| 5 pm | The Five
2.203 |
Blitzer
468 |
Schultz
574 |
WWYD
72 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.298 |
Blitzer
424 |
Sharpton
581 |
Files
147 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
2.041 |
Burnett
369 |
Matthews
713 |
Files
247 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.794 |
Cooper
481 |
Hayes
521 |
Grace
285 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.069 |
Rowe
400 |
Maddow
660 |
Dr. Drew
267 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.286 |
Tonight
302 |
O’Donnell
537 |
Files
294 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.089 |
Cooper
273 |
Hayes
305 |
Files
380 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.050 | 394 | 573 | 282 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



