Wednesday Cable Ratings: CNN’s New Day Beats MSNBC’s Morning Joe in Demo and Total
For the third consecutive day this week, CNN’s New Day beat MSNBC’s Morning Joe in both the 24-54 demo and total viewer ratings. With near-continuous coverage of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 plane, New Day averaged 154K in the demo and 457K total viewers Wednesday morning while Morning Joe had 137K in the demo and 349K total viewers. Fox & Friends remained in first place from 6-9am with 275K in the demo and 1.140M total viewers.
For the second night in a row, Fox News was on top through the full prime time schedule in the demo and total, though CNN made gains starting at 11pm when news regarding a possible break in the missing plane story out of Australia began to take shape. By the midnight hour, CNN was averaging 446K in the demo and 1.130M total viewers to Fox’s 357K and 1.062M.
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
275 |
New Day
154 |
Morning Joe
137 |
Express
80 |
| 5 pm | The Five
405 |
Blitzer
289 |
Schultz
110 |
Files
42 |
| 6 pm | Baier
372 |
Blitzer
277 |
Sharpton
177 |
Files
63 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
267 |
Burnett
248 |
Matthews
170 |
Velez-Mitchell
87 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
426 |
Cooper
383 |
Hayes
171 |
Grace
112 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
421 |
Morgan
379 |
Maddow
252 |
Dr. Drew
95 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
410 |
Lemon
291 |
O’Donnell
183 |
Files
100 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
373 |
MH370
487 |
Hayes
116 |
Files
138 |
| PRIME TIME | 421 | 351 | 204 | 102 |
| 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
1.140 |
New Day
457 |
Morning Joe
349 |
Express
169 |
| 5 pm | The Five
2.309 |
Blitzer
901 |
Schultz
540 |
Files
91 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.172 |
Blitzer
857 |
Sharpton
422 |
Files
181 |
| 7 pm | Van Susteren
1.531 |
Burnett
820 |
Matthews
885 |
Velez-Mitchell
213 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.712 |
Cooper
943 |
Hayes
686 |
Grace
351 |
| 9 pm | Kelly
2.206 |
Morgan
913 |
Maddow
987 |
Dr. Drew
376 |
| 10 pm | Hannity
1.547 |
Lemon
845 |
O’Donnell
641 |
Files
195 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.286 |
MH370
1.145 |
Hayes
393 |
Files
304 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.158 | 900 | 774 | 37 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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