On a night dominated by Maine Senator Olympia Snowe’s planned retirement and the contraception controversy, The Rachel Maddow Show notched an impressive 292,000 viewers in the demo on Wednesday night. Rachel Maddow‘s program was the highest rated show on MSNBC for the night and also beat out CNN’s Piers Morgan handily in demo and total viewers.
In other Wednesday highlights, Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor very nearly tied with NBC’s Rock Center in total viewers with 2.7 million last night. Rock Center had 2,748,000, while O’Reilly’s show racked up 2,682,000 total viewers.
Wednesday night’s full ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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 |
 |
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| 5 pm | The5
386 |
Blitzer
145 |
Matthews
145 |
Special
37 |
| 6 pm | Baier
366 |
King, USA
88 |
Sharpton
198 |
Prime
48 |
| 7 pm | Shep
323 |
Burnett
89 |
Matthews
235 |
Velez-Mitchell
82 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
534 |
Cooper
134 |
Schultz
247 |
Grace
94 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
355 |
Morgan
127 |
Maddow
292 |
Dr. Drew
89 |
| 10 pm | Van Susteren
327 |
Cooper
114 |
O’Donnell
231 |
Grace
126 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
439 |
Burnett
72 |
Schultz
144 |
Showbiz
133 |
| TOTAL DAY | 310 | 123 | 153 | 89 |
| PRIME TIME | 406 | 125 | 257 | 103 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | The5
1.695 |
Blitzer
614 |
Matthews
781 |
Special
134 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1.763 |
King, USA
450 |
Sharpton
829 |
Prime 217 |
| 7 pm | Shep
1.632 |
Burnett
361 |
Matthews
845 |
Velez-Mitchell
328 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.682 |
Cooper
493 |
Schultz
1.051 |
Grace
476 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
1.725 |
Morgan
456 |
Maddow
1.023 |
DrDrew
297 |
| 10 pm | Greta
1.577 |
Cooper
500 |
O’Donnell 908 |
Grace
264 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.154 |
Burnett
284 |
Schultz 467 |
Showbiz
311 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1.282 | 440 | 568 | 264 |
| PRIME TIME | 1.928 | 484 | 999 | 340 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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