Wednesday Cable Ratings: MSNBC’s Last Word with Ari Melber Beats Fox’s Hannity in Demo

Filling in for Lawrence O’Donnell on The Last Word Wednesday night, MSNBC’s Ari Melber drew more viewers in the 25-54 demo than Fox’s Sean Hannity at 10pm. Melber had 303K viewers in the demo while Hannity had 293K.

Hannity, who welcomed Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY) as his guests last night, was #1 in total viewers at 10pm with 1.784M. The Last Word was #2 with 940K total viewers.

Here are the rest of your Wednesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  322	New Day  101	Morning Joe  194	Express  92
5 pm	The Five  431	Blitzer  114	Schultz  193	WWYD  50
6 pm	Baier  324	Blitzer/Crossfire  111/130	Sharpton  229	WWYD  68
7 pm	Van Susteren  370	Burnett  154	Matthews  311	Velez-Mitchell  69
8 pm	O’Reilly  527	Cooper  154	Hayes  300	Grace  145
9 pm	Kelly  425	Morgan  185	Maddow  352	Grace  81
10 pm	Hannity  293	Cooper  167	O’Donnell  303	Grace  73
11 pm	O’Reilly  287	Frozen/Bieber  133/117	Hayes  176	Files  84
PRIME TIME	417	169	321	100
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.294	New Day  258	Morning Joe  461	Express  230
5 pm	The Five  2.471	Blitzer  492	Schultz  794	WWYD  119
6 pm	Baier  2.460	Blitzer/Crossfire  409/323	Sharpton  882	WWYD  184
7 pm	Van Susteren  2.113	Burnett  403	Matthews  1.126	Velez-Mitchell  203
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.257	Cooper  518	Hayes  998	Grace  411
9 pm	Kelly  2.713	Morgan  500	Maddow  1.204	Grace  267
10 pm	Hannity  1.784	Cooper  403	O’Donnell  940	Grace  261
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.102	Frozen/Bieber  365/311	Hayes  422	Files  188
PRIME TIME	2.585	474	1.050	313
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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