On Tuesday night, which included the 2013 State of the Union, CNN beat all other cable news networks in average demo for the evening.
In the key 25-54 demo, CNN racked up an average 1.29M viewers during the primetime hours, beating out Fox’s 869k and MSNBC’s 790k. During the actual State of the Union address, CNN had 1.44M demo viewers, compared to MSNBC’s 1.03M and Fox’s 957k.
In total viewership, however, Fox won the night with an average of 3.83M, defeating CNN’s 3.37M and MSNBC’s 2.40M totals.
CNN experienced the largest growth from the 2012 State of the Union ratings, increasing 36% in both the demo and total viewership. MSNBC experienced a 26% increase in the demo, and an 8% boost in the demo. Fox News, however, experienced a decline: viewership decreased 16% in the demo and 3% in total.
Here are the rest of your Tuesday night ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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 |
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| 5 pm | The5
518 |
Blitzer
464 |
Matthews
224 |
Express
116 |
| 6 pm | Baier
531 |
Blitzer
648 |
Sharpton
271 |
Express
124 |
| 7 pm | Shep
687 |
Burnett
1.035 |
Matthews
276 |
Velez-Mitchell
162 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
764 |
Cooper
1.326 |
Breaking News
549 |
Grace
159 |
| 9 pm | SOTU 2013
954 |
SOTU 2013
1.452 |
SOTU 2013
1.025 |
Grace
318 |
| 10 pm | SOTU 2013
962 |
Cooper
1.401 |
O’Donnell
1.036 |
Grace
305 |
| 11 pm | Hannity
640 |
SOTU
625 |
SOTU
423 |
Showbiz
128 |
| TOTAL DAY | 378 | 382 | 228 | 112 |
| PRIME TIME | 869 | 1.286 | 790 | 261 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | The5
2.453 |
Blitzer
1.540 |
Matthews
876 |
Express
513 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.553 |
Blitzer
2.053 |
Sharpton
804 |
Express
499 |
| 7 pm | Smith
3.003 |
Burnett
2.657 |
Matthews
973 |
Velez-Mitchell
432 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
3.975 |
Cooper
3.646 |
SOTU
2.158 |
Grace
555 |
| 9 pm | SOTU
3.669 |
SOTU
3.672 |
SOTU
3.007 |
Grace
871 |
| 10 pm | SOTU
3.719 |
SOTU
3.545 |
SOTU
3.116 |
Grace
870 |
| 11 pm | Hannity
2.445 |
SOTU
2.211 |
SOTU
1.343 |
Showbiz
336 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1.575 | 1.062 | 739 | 332 |
| PRIME TIME | 3.833 | 3.366 | 2.396 | 765 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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