Wednesday’s Cable Ratings

On the strength of the final (maybe?!) GOP debate, Anderson Cooper’s AC360, featuring post-debate commentary from political veterans David Gergen and Donna Brazile, muscling out all of his cable news competition combined in the demo (besting HLN, Fox News and MSNBC combined).

Though it wasn’t all good news for CNN Wednesday night, according to Nielsen final data, the Arizona GOP debate was the least-watched on the network since November averaging 4.734 million Total Viewers and 1.358 million in the demo.

Wednesday night’s full ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The5 288	Blitzer 139	Matthews 175	Special 28
6 pm	Baier 241	King, USA 128	Sharpton 187	Prime 37
7 pm	Shep 483	Burnett 166	Matthews 236	Velez-Mitchell 85
8 pm	O’Reilly 456	Debate 1.358	Schultz 162	Grace 193
9 pm	Hannity 306	Debate —	Maddow 186	Dr. Drew 100
10 pm	Van Susteren 344	Cooper 740	O’Donnell 213	Grace 125
11 pm	O’Reilly 401	Debate 438	Schultz 157	Showbiz 131
TOTAL DAY	278	308	158	94
PRIME TIME	500	203	260	144
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The5 1.467	Blitzer 508	Matthews 829	Special 134
6 pm	Baier 1.561	King, USA 416	Sharpton 735	Prime 234
7 pm	Shep 1.728	Burnett 563	Matthews 826	Velez-Mitchell 268
8 pm	O’Reilly 2.267	Cooper 534	Schultz 753	Grace 515
9 pm	Hannity 1.208	Debate 4.734	Maddow 925	DrDrew 284
10 pm	Greta 1.577	Cooper 2.134	O’Donnell 1.036	Grace 319
11 pm	O’Reilly 1.247	Debate 947	Schultz 619	Showbiz 292
TOTAL DAY	1.188	965	546	234
PRIME TIME	1.685	3.873	905	366
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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