Thursday Cable Ratings: Matthews’ Obama Interview Beats Greta at 7pm, #2 in Demo Overall
Chris Matthews‘ exclusive interview with President Barack Obama was #1 in the 25-54 demo at 7pm and the second highest-rated show in the demo for all of cable news, despite airing during other network’s live coverage of Nelson Mandela’s death. With 298K viewers in the demo, MSNBC’s Hardball beat Fox’s On The Record with Greta Van Susteren, which had 218K, in the 7pm time slot. The only show with more viewers in the demo than Hardball was Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, which had 405K viewers at 8pm.
With 1.296M total viewers, Matthews came within 3K of Greta Van Susteren, who had 1.299M. The top three highest-rated shows in total viewers were all on Fox: The O’Reilly Factor with 2.430M, The Kelly File with 1.787M and Special Report with Bret Baier with 1.774M.
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
285 |
New Day
75 |
Morning Joe
122 |
Express
110 |
| 5 pm | Mandela
273 |
Blitzer
197 |
Schultz
165 |
WWYD
24 |
| 6 pm | Baier
270 |
Blitzer
181 |
Sharpton
163 |
Showbiz
13 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
218 |
Burnett
180 |
Matthews
298 |
Velez-Mitchell
56 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
405 |
Cooper
175 |
Hayes
181 |
Grace
76 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
232 |
Mandela
229 |
Maddow
196 |
Dr. Drew
64 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
185 |
Cooper
229 |
O’Donnell
148 |
WWYD
65 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
247 |
Mandela
150 |
Hayes
165 |
Showbiz
28 |
| PRIME TIME | 274 | 211 | 175 | 68 |
| 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
1.124 |
New Day
230 |
Morning Joe
388 |
Express
189 |
| 5 pm | Mandela
1.568 |
Blitzer
611 |
Schultz
574 |
WWYD
81 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1.774 |
Blitzer
502 |
Sharpton
590 |
Showbiz
37 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.299 |
Burnett
366 |
Matthews
1.296 |
Velez-Mitchell
149 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.430 |
Cooper
443 |
Hayes
565 |
Grace
187 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
1.787 |
Mandela
515 |
Maddow
717 |
Dr. Drew
207 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.300 |
Cooper
458 |
O’Donnell
565 |
WWYD
184 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.093 |
Mandela
297 |
Hayes
495 |
Showbiz
84 |
| PRIME TIME | 1.842 | 473 | 618 | 192 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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