Wednesday Ratings: CNN’s The Situation Room Beats MSNBC’s Matthews And Shaprton In Demo And Total Viewers

Wednesday afternoon from 5-7pm ET, CNN’s The Situation Room beat MSNBC’s Hardball and PoliticsNation in both the 25-54 demo and total viewers. Wolf Blitzer pulled in 360k demo viewers over the two hours, while Chris Matthews and Al Sharpton combined had only 178k.

The difference in total viewers from 5-7pm between the two networks was somewhat slimmer, with CNN at 1.398M and MSNBC at 1.288M. Both networks trailed first place Fox, which pulled in 4.08M total viewers from 5-7pm.

Here are the rest of your Wednesday night ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The Five  330	Blitzer  163	Matthews  94	Express  163
6 pm	Baier  287	Blitzer  197	Sharpton  84	Express  222
7 pm	Shep  255	Burnett  183	Matthews  114	Velez-Mitchell  290
8 pm	O’Reilly  441	Cooper  202	Hayes  133	Grace  303
9 pm	Hannity  276	Morgan  135	Maddow  186	Dr. Drew  244
10 pm	Van Susteren  207	Cooper  180	O’Donnell  161	After Dark  244
11 pm	O’Reilly  273	Burnett  138	Hayes  120	Showbiz  233
TOTAL DAY	220	149	104	173
PRIME TIME	308	172	160	264
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The Five  2.121	Blitzer  711	Matthews  692	Express  611
6 pm	Baier  1.959	Blitzer  687	Sharpton  596	Express  684
7 pm	Smith  1.872	Burnett  571	Matthews  518	Velez-Mitchell  847
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.145	Cooper  773	Hayes  510	Grace  963
9 pm	Hannity  1.995	Morgan  608	Maddow  842	Dr. Drew  903
10 pm	Greta  1.600	Cooper  562	O’Donnell  786	After Dark  722
11 pm	O’Reilly  1.268	Burnett  366	Hayes  345	Showbiz  647
TOTAL DAY	1.272	463	396	510
PRIME TIME	2.252	648	716	863
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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