Friday Cable Ratings: Bret Baier Tops the Ratings on Fox News
Bret Baier topped the ratings on Fox News last Friday with a whopping 2.468K total viewers for Special Report. Eric Bolling subbing in for Bill O’Reilly received only 2.331K viewers (still overtaking the CNN and MSNBC competition by a long shot).
Baier came in second on Fox News in the 25-54 demo. He received 365K viewers in the demo, but Greta Van Susteren took in 387K. Bolling received 355K.
Meanwhile, the highest-rated program on CNN last Friday––Anderson Cooper in the 8 pm hour with 916K––still fell behind Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow with, respectively, 932K and 951K viewers.
Correction: An earlier version of this post said O’Reilly was hosting his program last Friday. He was not; Bolling guest-hosted.
Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | The Five
326 |
Blitzer
211 |
Todd
73 |
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| 6 pm | Baier
365 |
Blitzer
222 |
MSNBC Live
104 |
|
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
387 |
Burnett
280 |
Matthews
166 |
|
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
355 |
Cooper
316 |
Hayes
155 |
|
| 9 pm | Kelly
331 |
Cooper
277 |
Maddow
196 |
|
| 10 pm | Hannity
287 |
Lemon
266 |
O’Donnell
110 |
|
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
232 |
Blindsided
306 |
Hayes
77 |
|
| PRIME TIME | 325 | 286 | 154 | |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | The Five
2.376 |
Blitzer
885 |
Todd
584 |
|
| 6 pm | Baier
2.468 |
Blitzer
821 |
MSNBC Live
583 |
|
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
2.299 |
Burnett
728 |
Matthews
932 |
|
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.331 |
Cooper
916 |
Hayes
833 |
|
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.140 |
Cooper
821 |
Maddow
951 |
|
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.511 |
Lemon
711 |
O’Donnell
552 |
|
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.019 |
Blindsided
715 |
Hayes
274 |
|
| PRIME TIME | 1.994 | 817 | 779 | |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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