Friday Cable Ratings: The Five #1 in Demo and Total for All Cable News

On a night in which Fox News played mostly best of compilations and reruns in primetime, The Five at 5 p.m. ET was the highest rated show in both the 25-54 demo and total viewers across all of cable news.

The Five had 267K viewers in the demo and 1.631M total viewers, topping the entire cable news primetime lineup on Fox, CNN and MSNBC.

Here are the rest of your Friday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  180	New Day  95	Morning Joe  66
5 pm	The Five  267	Blitzer  196	Schultz  53
6 pm	Baier  249	Blitzer  207	Sharpton  41
7 pm	Van Susteren  151	Burnett  174	Matthews  54
8 pm	O’Reilly  230	Cooper  205	Hayes  66
9 pm	Kelly  163	Special  138	Maddow  94
10 pm	The Five  170	Bourdain  132	Investigates  66
11 pm	O’Reilly  160	Bourdain  179	Investigates  160
PRIME TIME	188	159	75
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  847	New Day  332	Morning Joe  329
5 pm	The Five  1.631	Blitzer  548	Schultz  365
6 pm	Baier  1.577	Blitzer  514	Sharpton  353
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.194	Burnett  511	Matthews  473
8 pm	O’Reilly  1.629	Cooper  582	Hayes  413
9 pm	Kelly  1.151	Special  455	Maddow  394
10 pm	The Five  848	Bourdain  347	Investigates  175
11 pm	O’Reilly  625	Bourdain  393	Investigates  265
PRIME TIME	1.209	466	327
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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