Wednesday Cable News Ratings: Fox’s Bret Baier #2 in Total Viewers for All Cable News

Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier had the second highest number of total viewers Wednesday night across all of cable news with 1.825M. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly was #1 with 2.604M. In his 6pm time slot, Baier was #1 in the 25-54 demo with 343K viewers.

Here are the rest of your Wednesday ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  192	New Day  139	Morning Joe  143	Express  68
5 pm	The Five  252	Blitzer  136	Schultz  148	Express  41
6 pm	Baier  343	Blitzer  155	Sharpton  175	Express  57
7 pm	Smith  351	Burnett  153	Matthews  226	Velez-Mitchell  49
8 pm	O’Reilly  509	Cooper  193	Hayes  323	Grace  78
9 pm	Hannity  390	Morgan  167	Maddow  317	Dr. Drew  96
10 pm	Van Susteren  309	Cooper  176	O’Donnell  263	After Dark  81
11 pm	O’Reilly  290	Burnett  194	Hayes  189	Showbiz  73
PRIME TIME	403	179	301	85
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
6 – 9 am	Fox & Friends  1.033	New Day  383	Morning Joe  440	Express  178
5 pm	The Five  1.627	Blitzer  463	Schultz  648	Express  227
6 pm	Baier  1.825	Blitzer  490	Sharpton  655	Express  167
7 pm	Smith  1.584	Burnett  525	Matthews  749	Velez-Mitchell  227
8 pm	O’Reilly  2.604	Cooper  581	Hayes  947	Grace  242
9 pm	Hannity  1.721	Morgan  542	Maddow  992	Dr. Drew  294
10 pm	Van Susteren  1.473	Cooper  495	O’Donnell  770	After Dark  289
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.230	Burnett  502	Hayes  442	Showbiz  256
PRIME TIME	1.939	541	909	275
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

*Please note that the daily ratings report now contains figures for the 6-9am morning shows.

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