Wednesday Ratings: HLN’s Grace Beats MSNBC’s Hayes, The Cycle Hits All-Time Series Low In Demo

Wednesday night during the 8pm hour, HLN’s Nancy Grace beat MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in the 25-54 demo and total viewers. Grace’s show had 208K in the demo and 535K total viewers while Hayes had 134K in the demo and 394K total viewers. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly was #1 at 8pm in both categories.

In addition on Wednesday, MSNBC’s The Cycle, which is approaching its one year anniversary on June 25th, had its all-time series low in the demo with 34K viewers. In total viewers, it was the show’s fourth-lowest performance at 233K.

Here are the rest of your Wednesday night ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The Five  294	Blitzer  80	Matthews  70	Express  35
6 pm	Baier  274	Blitzer  93	Sharpton  95	Express  50
7 pm	Smith  273	Burnett  95	Matthews  121	Velez-Mitchell  102
8 pm	O’Reilly  415	Cooper  105	Hayes  134	Grace  208
9 pm	Hannity  278	Morgan  115	Maddow  246	Dr. Drew  170
10 pm	Van Susteren  262	Cooper  123	O’Donnell  168	After Dark  114
11 pm	O’Reilly  384	Burnett  86	Hayes  104	Showbiz  85
TOTAL DAY	249	97	99	98
PRIME TIME	319	115	183	164
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The Five  1.949	Blitzer  405	Matthews  431	Express  226
6 pm	Baier  1.916	Blitzer  280	Sharpton  466	Express  202
7 pm	Smith  1.719	Burnett  307	Matthews  502	Velez-Mitchell  266
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.871	Cooper  496	Hayes  394	Grace  535
9 pm	Hannity  1.957	Morgan  478	Maddow  639	Dr. Drew  452
10 pm	Van Susteren  1.566	Cooper  398	O’Donnell  559	After Dark  318
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.490	Burnett  273	Hayes  297	Showbiz  273
TOTAL DAY	1.398	343	339	270
PRIME TIME	2.139	458	531	435
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data