Wednesday’s Ratings: MSNBC’s Matthews and Maddow Beat Fox in Demo

On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews and The Rachel Maddow Show were both #1 in the 25-54 demo in their respective time slots, coming out ahead of their Fox News competition. Chris Matthews had 285K viewers in the demo, beating Greta Van Susteren’ss 273K. Rachel Maddow had 351K in the demo while The Kelly File, with fill-in host Martha MacCallum had 304K.

The Fox shows were still on top in total viewers, with Van Susteren pulling in 1.961M viewers to Matthews’ 967K and The Kelly File getting 2.225M to Maddow’s 1.028M.

Here are the rest of your Wednesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  259	New Day  81	Morning Joe  180	Express  89
5 pm	The Five  445	Blitzer  147	Schultz  173	WWYD  43
6 pm	Baier  355	Blitzer/Crossfire  132/97	Sharpton  185	WWYD  56
7 pm	Van Susteren  273	Burnett  109	Matthews  285	Velez-Mitchell  70
8 pm	O’Reilly  451	Cooper  162	Hayes  287	Grace  132
9 pm	Kelly  304	Morgan  77	Maddow  351	Dr. Drew  103
10 pm	Hannity  278	Cooper  127	O’Donnell  247	WWYD  94
11 pm	O’Reilly  263	Cooper  58	Hayes  133	Files  63
PRIME TIME	345	122	295	110
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.144	New Day  217	Morning Joe  453	Express  208
5 pm	The Five  2.330	Blitzer  456	Schultz  575	WWYD  122
6 pm	Baier  2.251	Blitzer/Crossfire  390/247	Sharpton  632	WWYD  154
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.961	Burnett  255	Matthews  967	Velez-Mitchell  242
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.100	Cooper  386	Hayes  822	Grace  397
9 pm	Kelly  2.225	Morgan  269	Maddow  1.028	Dr. Drew  268
10 pm	Hannity  1.370	Cooper  306	O’Donnell  967	WWYD  260
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.051	Cooper  156	Hayes  429	Showbiz  218
PRIME TIME	2.233	320	942	308
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data