Thursday Cable Ratings: CNN Oscar Special Beats MSNBC’s O’Donnell in Demo and Total

CNN scored a rare win over MSNBC on Thursday with the second hour of its Academy Awards special film “And the Oscar Goes To…” During the 10pm ET hour, CNN had 144K viewers in the 25-54 demo and 673K total viewers, beating MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, which drew 132K in the demo and 659K total. Fox’s Hannity was #1 with 230K in the demo and 1.323M total.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow did beat the first hour of the Oscar special with 193K in the demo and 892K total viewers. The CNN film was the highest rated program of the night for that network.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  246	New Day  61	Morning Joe  74	Express  66
5 pm	The Five  300	Blitzer  97	Schultz  138	WWYD  32
6 pm	Baier  243	Blitzer/Crossfire  91/108	Sharpton  147	WWYD  67
7 pm	Van Susteren  260	Burnett  72	Matthews  120	Velez-Mitchell  93
8 pm	O’Reilly  384	Cooper  106	Hayes  125	Grace  113
9 pm	Kelly  304	Oscar Film  116	Maddow  193	Dr. Drew  93
10 pm	Hannity  230	Oscar Film  144	O’Donnell  132	Minute  62
11 pm	O’Reilly  209	Lemon Special  68	Hayes  90	Files  85
PRIME TIME	306	122	150	89
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.085	New Day  207	Morning Joe  330	Express  204
5 pm	The Five  1.893	Blitzer  311	Schultz  520	WWYD  89
6 pm	Baier  1.896	Blitzer/Crossfire  314/308	Sharpton  556	WWYD  124
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.768	Burnett  270	Matthews  707	Velez-Mitchell  293
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.555	Cooper  379	Hayes  607	Grace  389
9 pm	Kelly  1.998	Oscar Film  647	Maddow  892	Dr. Drew  248
10 pm	Hannity  1.323	Oscar Film  673	O’Donnell  659	Minute  193
11 pm	O’Reilly  886	Lemon Special  238	Hayes  312	Files  242
PRIME TIME	1.960	566	720	277
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data