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) | ||||
| 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) | ||||
| 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 | ||||