Monday Cable Ratings: Fox’s O’Reilly #1 for All Cable News with Bob Costas as Guest

Monday night, Bill O’Reilly welcomed NBC Sports’ Bob Costas as his guest on The O’Reilly Factor and delivered some even stronger than usual ratings for Fox News. O’Reilly averaged 458K viewers in the 25-54 demo, beating CNN and MSNBC combined at 8pm.

In total viewers, O’Reilly had 3.057M, this time beating CNN, MSNBC and HLN combined by more than 1 million viewers. Fox’s The Five was the second-highest rated show overall with 2.179M, followed by Special Report with 2.098M.

Here are the rest of your Monday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  214	New Day  60	Morning Joe  141	Express  93
5 pm	The Five  318	Blitzer  170	Schultz  128	WWYD  34
6 pm	Baier  271	Blitzer/Crossfire  202/154	Sharpton  165	WWYD  44
7 pm	Van Susteren  255	Burnett  154	Matthews  266	Velez-Mitchell  68
8 pm	O’Reilly  458	Cooper  166	Hayes  250	Grace  121
9 pm	Kelly  274	Morgan  150	Maddow  293	Dr. Drew  75
10 pm	Hannity  287	Cooper  144	O’Donnell  170	Minute  37
11 pm	O’Reilly  290	Burnett  90	Hayes  80	Files  127
PRIME TIME	340	153	238	77
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.059	New Day  218	Morning Joe  339	Express  242
5 pm	The Five  2.179	Blitzer  651	Schultz  556	WWYD  127
6 pm	Baier  2.098	Blitzer/Crossfire  688/507	Sharpton  680	WWYD  167
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.820	Burnett  503	Matthews  937	Velez-Mitchell  190
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.057	Cooper  594	Hayes  854	Grace  400
9 pm	Kelly  1.906	Morgan  476	Maddow  1.132	Dr. Drew  267
10 pm	Hannity  1.328	Cooper  509	O’Donnell  720	Minute  148
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.051	Burnett  333	Hayes  319	Files  295
PRIME TIME	2.098	526	903	271
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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