Thursday Cable Ratings: O’Reilly Hits Yearly High in Demo During Obama Speech

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly got his highest ratings of the 2014 in the 25-54 demo Thursday night. And he has President Barack Obama to thank.

The president’s immigration speech aired on Fox from 8-8:15 p.m., followed by the rest of The O’Reilly Factor and during the hour O’Reilly averaged 885K viewers in the 25-54 demo. CNN’s coverage, with Anderson Cooper hosting, came in second with 578K in the demo and MSNBC was third (322K during Obama’s speech and 282K for the rest of the hour).

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  284	New Day  100	Morning Joe  96	Express  70
5 pm	The Five  355	Blitzer  189	Schultz  62	WWYD  58
6 pm	Baier  359	Blitzer  183	Sharpton  100	Files  48
7 pm	Van Susteren  330	Burnett/Cooper  260/415	Matthews/Coverage  134/205	Files  55
8 pm	O’Reilly  885	Cooper  578	Obama/Coverage  322/282	Grace  93
9 pm	Kelly  708	Films  258	Maddow  274	Dr. Drew  95
10 pm	Hannity  485	Films/Cooper  243/210	O’Donnell  179	Files  168
11 pm	O’Reilly  270	Cooper  143	Coverage  142	Files  177
PRIME TIME	693	358	250	119
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.264	New Day  325	Morning Joe  382	Express  197
5 pm	The Five  2.353	Blitzer  599	Schultz  476	WWYD  146
6 pm	Baier  2.291	Blitzer  582	Sharpton  519	Files  108
7 pm	Van Susteren  2.180	Burnett/Cooper  644/925	Matthews/Coverage  820/1.014	Files  212
8 pm	O’Reilly  4.153	Cooper  1.652	Obama/Coverage  1.763/1.450	Grace  305
9 pm	Kelly  3.201	Films  734	Maddow  1.234	Dr. Drew  296
10 pm	Hannity  1.964	Films/Cooper  675/564	O’Donnell  772	Files  462
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.204	Cooper  438	Coverage  456	Files  479
PRIME TIME	3.109	1.017	1.180	354
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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