CNN’s Don Lemon had an exclusive interview with a man who claimed to be Donald Sterling’s pimp last night at 10 p.m., but it did not do much to help the network’s ratings. CNN Special Report came in last place in the 25-54 demo with 102K viewers. In total viewers, the hour came in third with 399K.
Fox News’ Hannity was #1 at 10 p.m. in both the demo (226K) and total viewers (1.292M). MSNBC’s The Last Word with fill-in host Ari Melber came in second with 152K in the demo and 621K total.
Here are the rest of your Wednesday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends 231 | New Day 73 | Morning Joe 81 | Express 79 |
| 5 pm | The Five 270 | Blitzer 91 | Schultz 99 | Detective 16 |
| 6 pm | Baier 265 | Blitzer/Crossfire 119/115 | Sharpton 107 | Detective 21 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren 218 | Burnett 123 | Matthews 115 | Velez-Mitchell 64 |
| 8 pm | O& 315 | Cooper 195 | Hayes 120 | Grace 82 |
| 9 pm | Kelly 270 | Weir 136 | Maddow 208 | Dr. Drew 99 |
| 10 pm | Hannity 226 | Lemon 102 | O’Donnell 152 | Files 111 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly 160 | Cooper 107 | Hayes 59 | Files 120 |
| PRIME TIME | 273 | 144 | 160 | 97 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
| 6 – 9 am | Fox & Friends 1.099 | New Day 250 | Morning Joe 295 | Express 141 |
| 5 pm | The Five 1.657 | Blitzer 406 | Schultz 453 | Detective 86 |
| 6 pm | Baier 1.736 | Blitzer/Crossfire 352/236 | Sharpton 502 | Detective 139 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren 1.412 | Burnett 309 | Matthews 661 | Velez-Mitchell 163 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly 2.368 | Cooper 519 | Hayes 561 | Grace 261 |
| 9 pm | Kelly 1.844 | Weir 451 | Maddow 771 | Dr. Drew 336 |
| 10 pm | Hannity 1.292 | Lemon 399 | O’Donnell 621 | Files 312 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly 841 | Cooper 365 | Hayes 189 | Files 307 |
| PRIME TIME | 1.839 | 456 | 654 | 303 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||