With 112K viewers in the 25-54 demo Friday evening, Hardball with Chris Matthews came out ahead of MSNBC’s primetime offering, All In with Chris Hayes and The Rachel Maddow Show. Those shows had 84K and 96K demo viewers, respectively. Note that this is the second time so far this year that Rachel Maddow has delivered less than 100K viewers in the demo, and the 7th lowest demo in the history of her show (which debuted on 9/8/08).
However, in total viewers Maddow had the highest rated show on MSNBC’s schedule with 731K, followed by Chris Hayes with 644K and then Chris Matthews with 608K.
Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:
TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
246 |
New Day
101 |
Morning Joe
77 |
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5 pm | The Five
223 |
Blitzer
148 |
Schultz
52 |
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6 pm | Baier
258 |
Blitzer
172 |
Sharpton
66 |
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7 pm | Van Susteren
226 |
Burnett
138 |
Matthews
112 |
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8 pm | O’Reilly
307 |
Cooper
142 |
Hayes
84 |
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9 pm | Kelly
286 |
Weir
62 |
Maddow
96 |
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10 pm | ISIS Special
201 |
Jesus
93 |
Investigates
131 |
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11 pm | O’Reilly
198 |
Ling
125 |
Investigates
168 |
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PRIME TIME | 265 | 99 | 104 | |
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. |
TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
949 |
New Day
303 |
Morning Joe
307 |
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5 pm | The Five
1.950 |
Blitzer
412 |
Schultz
450 |
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6 pm | Baier
1.934 |
Blitzer
431 |
Sharpton
441 |
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7 pm | Van Susteren
1.665 |
Burnett
346 |
Matthews
608 |
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8 pm | O’Reilly
2.131 |
Cooper
427 |
Hayes
644 |
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9 pm | Kelly
1.898 |
Weir
249 |
Maddow
731 |
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10 pm | ISIS Special
1.205 |
Jesus
262 |
Investigates
320 |
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11 pm | O’Reilly
828 |
Ling
362 |
Investigates
326 |
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PRIME TIME | 1.745 | 312 | 565 | |
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data |
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