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) | ||||
| 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 | ||||