On Thursday afternoon, Fox News’ The Five was the highest-rated show in the 25-54 demo across all of cable news with 341K viewers. Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor came in second with 297K and The Kelly File, with fill-in host Shannon Bream, was third with 266K.
In total viewers, Bill O’Reilly was out front with 2,248M viewers, while The Five was second with 1.900M and Special Report with Bret Baier was third with 1.804M.
Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends 184 | New Day 93 | Morning Joe 79 | Express 99 |
| 5 pm | The Five 341 | Blitzer 106 | Schultz 128 | Detective 30 |
| 6 pm | Baier 262 | Blitzer/Crossfire 117/115 | Sharpton 157 | Detective 77 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren 170 | Burnett 134 | Matthews 185 | Velez-Mitchell 102 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly 297 | Cooper 137 | Hayes 151 | Grace 119 |
| 9 pm | Kelly 266 | Weir 110 | Maddow 254 | Dr. Drew 92 |
| 10 pm | Hannity 238 | Lemon 134 | O’Donnell 142 | Files 93 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly 245 | Cooper 117 | Hayes 85 | Files 149 |
| PRIME TIME | 268 | 127 | 183 | 101 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL | ||||
| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends 855 | New Day 374 | Morning Joe 336 | Express 219 |
| 5 pm | The Five 1.900 | Blitzer 432 | Schultz 542 | Detective 87 |
| 6 pm | Baier 1.804 | Blitzer/Crossfire 384/286 | Sharpton 546 | Detective 159 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren 1.390 | Burnett 352 | Matthews 765 | Velez-Mitchell 316 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly 2.248 | Cooper 478 | Hayes 576 | Grace 327 |
| 9 pm | Kelly 1.789 | Weir 333 | Maddow 885 | Dr. Drew 236 |
| 10 pm | Hannity 1.115 | Lemon 408 | O’Donnell 599 | Files 207 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly 1.040 | Cooper 267 | Hayes 303 | Files 331 |
| PRIME TIME | 1.718 | 406 | 692 | 257 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||