Tuesday Cable News Ratings: Fox Leads Obama Syria Speech Coverage with 4 Million+ Total Viewers

More Americans watched President Obama’s prime time Syria address on Fox News than on any other cable network. From 9-9:17pm ET, when the president was speaking, Fox had 939K viewers in the 25-54 demo and 4.042M total viewers. CNN was second with 722K in the demo and 1.999M total.

MSNBC did not break out the numbers for the address vs. post-speech analysis, but either way came in third place with 411K in the demo and 1.527M during the 9pm hour.

Here are the rest of your Tuesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  248	New Day  98	Morning Joe  126	Express  105
5 pm	The Five  401	Blitzer  137	Schultz  155	Express  119
6 pm	Baier  385	Blitzer/Crossfire  165/173	Sharpton  131	Express  78
7 pm	Smith  385	Burnett  215	Matthews  221	Velez-Mitchell  70
8 pm	O’Reilly  531	Cooper  251	Obama Preview  209	Grace  113
9 pm	Obama/Coverage  939/830	Obama/Coverage  722/565	Obama/Coverage  411	Dr. Drew  131
10 pm	Van Susteren  559	Cooper  409	O’Donnell  272	After Dark  139
11 pm	The Five  465	Tapper  225	Hayes  116	Showbiz  90
PRIME TIME	651	434	297	128
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.207	New Day  271	Morning Joe  423	Express  211
5 pm	The Five  2.449	Blitzer  569	Schultz  660	Express  310
6 pm	Baier  2.257	Blitzer/Crossfire  570/473	Sharpton  599	Express  242
7 pm	Smith  1.805	Burnett  543	Matthews  771	Velez-Mitchell  289
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.070	Cooper  838	Obama Preview  865	Grace  349
9 pm	Obama/Coverage  4.042/3.591	Obama/Coverage  1.999/1.564	Obama/Coverage  1.527	Dr. Drew  348
10 pm	Van Susteren  2.428	Cooper  998	O’Donnell  942	After Dark  305
11 pm	The Five  1.615	Tapper  571	Hayes  406	Showbiz  201
PRIME TIME	3.078	1.205	1.112	334
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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