Wednesday Ratings: Fox’s Shepard Smith Beats Sean Hannity In The Demo

On Wednesday evening, Fox News’ Shepard Smith beat his colleague Sean Hannity in the key 25-54 demo.

Racking up 375k demo viewers, Smith placed second among all cable news programming, beating out his colleague Hannity, who had 355k in the demo.

In total viewership, however, Smith’s 1.83M was not enough to beat Hannity’s 2.02M total.

Here are the rest of your Wednesday night ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  352	Blitzer  100	Matthews  179	Express  186
6 pm	Baier  286	Blitzer  136	Sharpton  254	Express  183
7 pm	Shep  375	Burnett  135	Matthews  208	Velez-Mitchell  180
8 pm	O’Reilly  438	Cooper  177	Schultz  243	Grace  196
9 pm	Hannity  355	Morgan  155	Maddow  270	Dr. Drew  179
10 pm	Van Susteren  308	Cooper  124	O’Donnell  223	Grace  107
11 pm	O’Reilly  246	Burnett  163	Schultz  121	Showbiz  69
TOTAL DAY	251	122	130	125
PRIME TIME	367	152	245	161
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  1.945	Blitzer  530	Matthews  754	Express  658
6 pm	Baier  1.864	Blitzer  486	Sharpton  810	Express  513
7 pm	Smith  1.827	Burnett  486	Matthews  794	Velez-Mitchell  482
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.095	Cooper  647	Schultz  1.011	Grace  591
9 pm	Hannity  2.024	Morgan  595	Maddow  1.057	Dr. Drew  551
10 pm	Greta  1.392	Cooper  440	O’Donnell  915	Grace  348
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.014	Burnett  362	Schultz  433	Showbiz  262
TOTAL DAY	1.233	386	480	346
PRIME TIME	2.175	561	996	497
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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