Wednesday Cable News Ratings: CNN Comes in Under 100K in Demo Across Primetime Lineup

 

CNN’s entire primetime lineup, from 7pm through 11pm, brought in under 100K viewers in the 25-54 demo Wednesday night, putting the network in third place in every hour. Of the four time slots, Anderson Cooper 360 at 8pm had the lowest number of viewers with 73K. That put CNN behind Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor at 487K and MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes at 199K.

Overall in primetime, CNN averaged 79K viewers in the demo, while Fox averaged 415K and MSNBC averaged 244K.


Here are the rest of your Wednesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
Fox News CNN MSNBC CNN Headline News
6 – 9 am Fox & Friends 

280

New Day 

81

Morning Joe 

159

Express 

65

5 pm The Five 

356

Blitzer 

128

Schultz 

184

Express 

15

6 pm Baier 

414

Blitzer/Crossfire 

143/112

Sharpton 

200

Express 

20

7 pm Van Susteren 

378

Burnett 

77

Matthews 

244

Velez-Mitchell 

77

8 pm O’Reilly 

487

Cooper 

73

Hayes 

199

Grace 

73

9 pm Kelly 

395

Morgan 

78

Maddow 

310

Dr. Drew 

74

10 pm Hannity 

362

Cooper 

86

O’Donnell 

224

After Dark 

52

11 pm O’Reilly 

398

Burnett/Crossfire 

74/55

Hayes 

119

Showbiz 

51

PRIME TIME 415 79 244 66
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

 

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
Fox News CNN MSNBC CNN Headline News
6 – 9 am Fox & Friends 

1.223

New Day 

244

Morning Joe 

440

Express 

143

5 pm The Five 

2.156

Blitzer 

501

Schultz 

829

Express 

192

6 pm Baier 

2.224

Blitzer/Crossfire 

450/313

Sharpton 

766

Express 

154

7 pm Van Susteren 

1.909

Burnett 

312

Matthews 

1.028

Velez-Mitchell 

217

8 pm O’Reilly 

2.939

Cooper 

388

Hayes 

739

Grace 

296

9 pm Kelly 

2.262

Morgan 

469

Maddow 

977

Dr. Drew 

258

10 pm Hannity 

1.778

Cooper 

338

O’Donnell 

937

After Dark 

119

11 pm O’Reilly 

1.409

Burnett/Crossfire 

213/183

Hayes 

415

Showbiz 

122

PRIME TIME 2.330 398 884 224
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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