Thursday Cable Ratings: Fox’s Megyn Kelly Beats O’Reilly, Hannity in Demo

With ongoing coverage of the Baltimore unrest, Fox News’ The Kelly File came out ahead of The O’Reilly Factor in the primetime demo ratings Thursday night, coming in at #1 for all of cable news with 457K viewers. Hannity came in second place with 439K and Bill O’Reilly‘s 8 p.m. broadcast was third with 433K.

In total viewers, O’Reilly was #1 overall with 2.505M, followed by Megyn Kelly with 2.196M and then Special Report with Bret Baier with 2.014M.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  236	New Day  161	Morning Joe  80
5 pm	The Five  295	Blitzer  220	Schultz  63
6 pm	Baier  312	Blitzer  296	Sharpton  76
7 pm	Van Susteren  241	Burnett  240	Matthews  98
8 pm	O’Reilly  433	Cooper  313	Hayes  125
9 pm	Kelly  457	Cooper  308	Maddow  164
10 pm	Hannity  439	Tonight  347	O’Donnell  116
11 pm	O’Reilly  314	Tonight  251	Hayes  115
PRIME TIME	443	323	135
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.062	New Day  478	Morning Joe  353
5 pm	The Five  1.990	Blitzer  733	Schultz  452
6 pm	Baier  2.014	Blitzer  799	Sharpton  464
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.578	Burnett  700	Matthews  654
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.505	Cooper  762	Hayes  621
9 pm	Kelly  2.196	Cooper  796	Maddow  670
10 pm	Hannity  1.792	Tonight  947	O’Donnell  527
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.156	Tonight  679	Hayes  356
PRIME TIME	2.165	835	606
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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