With Fox News far out ahead in first place, CNN nearly doubled MSNBC in the primetime demo Wednesday night. CNN averaged 156K viewers in the 25-54 demo between 8 and 11 p.m. while MSNBC had just 81K, with no show rating higher than 100K. With 159K, Anderson Cooper 360 out-rated All In with Chris Hayes by more than 100K viewers in the demo.
Meanwhile, in total viewers MSNBC’s 661K in primetime was far ahead of CNN’s 388K. Fox News was #1 in both the demo and total with 434K and 2.467M respectively.
Here are the rest of your Wednesday ratings:
TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
226 |
New Day
83 |
Morning Joe
93 |
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5 pm | The Five
269 |
Blitzer
168 |
Schultz
60 |
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6 pm | Baier
366 |
Blitzer
163 |
Sharpton
101 |
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7 pm | Van Susteren
344 |
Burnett
146 |
Matthews
89 |
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8 pm | O’Reilly
518 |
Cooper
159 |
Hayes
58 |
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9 pm | Kelly
460 |
Bourdain
168 |
Maddow
99 |
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10 pm | Hannity
324 |
Tonight
130 |
O’Donnell
88 |
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11 pm | O’Reilly
219 |
Cooper
81 |
Hayes
48 |
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PRIME TIME | 434 | 156 | 81 | |
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. |
TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends
993 |
New Day
321 |
Morning Joe
348 |
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5 pm | The Five
2.098 |
Blitzer
493 |
Schultz
435 |
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6 pm | Baier
2.120 |
Blitzer
471 |
Sharpton
494 |
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7 pm | Van Susteren
1.903 |
Burnett
450 |
Matthews
603 |
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8 pm | O’Reilly
3.067 |
Cooper
399 |
Hayes
626 |
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9 pm | Kelly
2.630 |
Bourdain
416 |
Maddow
809 |
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10 pm | Hannity
1.695 |
Tonight
341 |
O’Donnell
549 |
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11 pm | O’Reilly
1.033 |
Cooper
317 |
Hayes
254 |
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PRIME TIME | 2.467 | 388 | 661 | |
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data |
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