Wednesday Cable Ratings: O’Reilly’s Return Helps Fox Regain Primetime Demo Lead

Bill O’Reilly returned from vacation last night, and in the process helped Fox News regain its primetime demo lead over CNN, which has seen a surge in viewership with its coverage of Ferguson, Missouri.

Overall Wednesday night, Fox averaged 540K in the 25-54 demo in primetime, beating CNN (362K) and MSNBC (156K) combined. The O’Reilly Factor was the ratings leader for the night with 615K in the demo and 3.329M total viewers.

The only place CNN beat Fox was during the 5 p.m. hour when The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer came out ahead of The Five in the demo, 392K to 390K.

Here are the rest of your Wednesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  199	New Day  149	Morning Joe  87	Express  140
5 pm	The Five  390	Blitzer  392	Schultz  88	Files  64
6 pm	Baier  380	Blitzer  280	Sharpton  169	Files  64
7 pm	Van Susteren  398	Burnett  256	Matthews  169	Velez-Mitchell  158
8 pm	O’Reilly  615	Cooper  346	Hayes  135	Grace  186
9 pm	Kelly  524	Cooper  306	Maddow  178	Dr. Drew  151
10 pm	Hannity  475	Tonight  423	O’Donnell  156	Files  112
11 pm	Smith  479	Tonight  394	Hayes  115	Files  166
PRIME TIME	540	362	156	150
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  929	New Day  469	Morning Joe  347	Express  242
5 pm	The Five  2.278	Blitzer  999	Schultz  540	Files  155
6 pm	Baier  2.215	Blitzer  862	Sharpton  643	Files  123
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.974	Burnett  902	Matthews  763	Velez-Mitchell  296
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.329	Cooper  946	Hayes  637	Grace  423
9 pm	Kelly  2.642	Cooper  773	Maddow  880	Dr. Drew  341
10 pm	Hannity  2.217	Tonight  1.034	O’Donnell  755	Files  353
11 pm	Smith  1.601	Tonight  890	Hayes  429	Files  529
PRIME TIME	2.732	921	757	372
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data