The Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash dominated cable news on Thursday, giving ratings boosts to all three networks, but especially CNN, which tends to thrive during big breaking news events. Fox News remained the #1 spot, growing 71% in the 25-54 demo and 52% in total viewers in primetime compared to the average of the previous four Thursdays. CNN came in second, jumping 176% in the demo and 82% in total viewers compared to the previous four Thursdays.
Though it was up 62% in primetime demo and 40% in total viewers compared to the previous weeks, MSNBC fell to third place overall. Fox’s Hannity was the highest-rated show of the night in the demo with 615K viewers, while The O’Reilly Factor was #1 in total with 3.477M. During the 7 p.m. hour, CNN’s Erin Burnett Out Front was #1 in the demo, beating Fox’s On The Record with Greta Van Susteren 412K to 377K.
Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
231 |
New Day
75 |
Morning Joe
44 |
Express
112 |
| 5 pm | Smith
415 |
Blitzer
383 |
Schultz
114 |
Files
81 |
| 6 pm | Baier
481 |
Blitzer/Crossfire
351 |
Sharpton
118 |
Files
76 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
377 |
Burnett
412 |
Matthews
125 |
Velez-Mitchell
84 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
561 |
Cooper
486 |
Hayes
171 |
Grace
112 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
534 |
Cooper
487 |
Maddow
212 |
Dr. Drew
105 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
615 |
Lemon
490 |
O’Donnell
168 |
Files
176 |
| 11 pm | Kelly
548 |
Cooper
362 |
Hayes
156 |
Files
180 |
| PRIME TIME | 570 | 488 | 184 | 131 |
| 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
952 |
New Day
267 |
Morning Joe
250 |
Express
225 |
| 5 pm | Smith
2.367 |
Blitzer
1.320 |
Schultz
658 |
Files
155 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.618 |
Blitzer
1.069 |
Sharpton
540 |
Files
134 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
2.093 |
Burnett
1.124 |
Matthews
748 |
Velez-Mitchell
188 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
3.477 |
Cooper
1.323 |
Hayes
825 |
Grace
325 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
3.185 |
Cooper
1.289 |
Maddow
906 |
Dr. Drew
356 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
2.578 |
Lemon
1.054 |
O’Donnell
744 |
Files
444 |
| 11 pm | Kelly
2.034 |
Cooper
815 |
Hayes
480 |
Files
555 |
| PRIME TIME | 3.081 | 1.222 | 826 | 375 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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