Thursday Cable Ratings: The Five Ratings Tower Over 5PM Competition in Total and Demo

The Five won the 5PM ratings race on Thursday, raking in hundreds of thousands of more viewers than The Ed Show, The Situation Room, and HLN News combined. The Five got 2.07 million viewers in total, while Ed Schultz came in second with just 0.56 million.

In the demo, The Five raked in 351K viewers, while Schultz got 163K, HLN News took in 142K, and Wolf Blitzer only got 94K.

Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  253	New Day  94	Morning Joe  101	Express  50
5 pm	The Five  351	Blitzer  94	Schultz  163	News  142
6 pm	Baier  292	Blitzer/Crossfire  160/101	Sharpton  174	Velez-Mitchell  158
7 pm	Van Susteren  273	Burnett  129	Matthews  207	Velez-Mitchell  140
8 pm	O’Reilly  353	Cooper  152	Hayes  238	Grace  181
9 pm	Kelly  329	Morgan  121	Maddow  280	Dr. Drew  180
10 pm	Smith  255	Cooper  139	O’Donnell  253	Minute  88
11 pm	O’Reilly  205	Burnett  104	Hayes  141	Files  80
PRIME TIME	312	137	257	150
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.142	New Day  261	Morning Joe  339	Express  138
5 pm	The Five  2.074	Blitzer  378	Schultz  559	News  375
6 pm	Baier  1.983	Blitzer/Crossfire  435/267	Sharpton  728	Velez-Mitchell  355
7 pm	Van Susteren  1.885	Burnett  443	Matthews  967	Velez-Mitchell  373
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.749	Cooper  502	Hayes  736	Grace  434
9 pm	Kelly  2.296	Morgan  320	Maddow  935	Dr. Drew  401
10 pm	Smith  1.455	Cooper  306	O’Donnell  815	Minute  230
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.051	Burnett  234	Hayes  388	Express  188
PRIME TIME	2.169	376	830	355
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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