Tuesday Cable Ratings: Fox’s Kelly Reaches New High in Demo on Election Night

As election results were coming in Tuesday night, Fox News remained the highest-rated cable news network on TV and Megyn Kelly’s The Kelly File reached new heights in the 25-54 demo since its launch last month. Kelly’s 9pm show, during which she was joined by Bret Baier, was the #1 show in the demo on cable news with 654K, followed by Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor with 624K and Hannity with 498K.

During the primetime hours of 8-11pm ET, as the polls closed and election results were coming in, Fox News beat CNN, MSNBC and HLN combined with 593K in the demo and 2.729M total viewers.

Here are the rest of your Tuesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  308	New Day  64	Morning Joe  109	Express  127
5 pm	The Five  401	Blitzer  101	Schultz  148	Express  77
6 pm	Baier  436	Blitzer/Crossfire  119/125	Sharpton  168	Express  85
7 pm	Van Susteren  419	Burnett  147	Matthews  231	Velez-Mitchell  91
8 pm	O’Reilly  624	Cooper  212	Hayes  201	Grace  119
9 pm	Kelly  654	Morgan  239	Maddow  313	Dr. Drew  102
10 pm	Hannity  498	Cooper  221	O’Donnell  218	After Dark  54
11 pm	O’Reilly  400	Election/Crossfire  106/74	Hayes  120	Showbiz  50
PRIME TIME	593	224	244	91
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.287	New Day  281	Morning Joe  444	Express  250
5 pm	The Five  2.419	Blitzer  456	Schultz  743	Express  214
6 pm	Baier  2.472	Blitzer/Crossfire  369/317	Sharpton  789	Express  208
7 pm	Van Susteren  2.005	Burnett  424	Matthews  1.119	Velez-Mitchell  217
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.407	Cooper  659	Hayes  873	Grace  373
9 pm	Kelly  2.870	Morgan  734	Maddow  1.267	Dr. Drew  278
10 pm	Hannity  1.894	Cooper  597	O’Donnell  964	After Dark  159
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.269	Election/Crossfire  404/322	Hayes  487	Showbiz  126
PRIME TIME	2.729	664	1.035	270
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data