Wednesday Ratings: Rachel Maddow Wins The Night, Beats O’Reilly, Hannity In Demo

Rachel Maddow beat all of cable news in the demo on Wednesday, including Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren. In total viewers, she fell behind Fox News, but drew in higher ratings than the rest of MSNBC, as well as CNN and HLN.

Fellow MSNBC-er Lawrence O’Donnell also beat Hannity in the demo, as he did on Tuesday also. Elsewhere, Anderson Cooper brought in CNN’s highest ratings in both the demo and total viewers.

Here are the rest of your Wednesday night ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  363	Blitzer  177	Matthews  339	Express  33
6 pm	Baier  378	Blitzer  161	Sharpton  336	Express   54
7 pm	Shep  432	Burnett  198	Matthews  304	Velez-Mitchell  72
8 pm	O’Reilly  431	Cooper  248	Schultz  333	Grace  102
9 pm	Hannity  366	Morgan  150	Maddow  492	Dr. Drew  114
10 pm	Van Susteren  401	Cooper  156	O’Donnell  423	Grace  48
11 pm	O’Reilly  386	Burnett  140	Schultz  198	Showbiz  34
TOTAL DAY	321	152	249	90
PRIME TIME	399	184	416	104
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  2.433	Blitzer  672	Matthews  1.353	Express   126
6 pm	Baier  2.598	Blitzer  635	Sharpton  1.231	Express   178
7 pm	Smith  2.295	Burnett  609	Matthews  1.172	Velez-Mitchell  242
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.426	Cooper  882	Schultz  1.445	Grace  276
9 pm	Hannity  2.432	Morgan  675	Maddow  1.835	DrDrew  270
10 pm	Greta  2.035	Cooper  561	O’Donnell  1.680	Sandy  170
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.448	Burnett  370	Schultz  765	Sandy  132
TOTAL DAY	1.733	522	906	191
PRIME TIME	2.638	706	1.657	239
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data