Last night’s Al Smith Dinner gave CNN something very rare: a total-viewer ratings win over Fox News in primetime.
In the 9 pm hour last night, when everyone was watching the dinner, 3.583 million people were glued to Fox News, but a whopping 3.851 million watched on CNN.
Sean Hannity‘s post-dinner coverage in the 10 and 11 pm slots, however beat out Don Lemon in both hours (though we should note that Hannity’s 11 pm ratings––1.588 million––was beaten out by Brian Williams––1.618).
But even more remarkably, every single CNN show from Jake Tapper to Lemon last night all beat out Fox News in the 25-54 demo. Yes, all of them.
In that 9 pm hour, 1.337 million in the demo watched CNN compared to 781K for Fox.
Here are the rest of your Thursday ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | The Five
382 |
Blitzer
484 |
Todd
293 |
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| 6 pm | Baier
439 |
Blitzer
456 |
WADR
299 |
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| 7 pm | Hume
465 |
Burnett
633 |
Matthews
336 |
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| 8 pm | O’Reilly
618 |
Cooper
828 |
Hayes
414 |
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| 9 pm | Kelly
781 |
Cooper
1.337 |
Maddow
652 |
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| 10 pm | Hannity
606 |
Lemon
742 |
O’Donnell
493 |
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| 11 pm | Hannity
400 |
Lemon
437 |
Williams
427 |
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| PRIME TIME | 669 | 969 | 521 | |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | The Five
2.253 |
Blitzer
1.640 |
Todd
1.404 |
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| 6 pm | Baier
2.404 |
Blitzer
1.440 |
WADR
1.243 |
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| 7 pm | Hume
2.115 |
Burnett
1.790 |
Matthews
1.751 |
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| 8 pm | O’Reilly
3.306 |
Cooper
2.360 |
Hayes
2.007 |
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| 9 pm | Kelly
3.583 |
Cooper
3.851 |
Maddow
2.875 |
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| 10 pm | Hannity
2.633 |
Lemon
2.052 |
O’Donnell
2.252 |
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| 11 pm | Hannity
1.588 |
Lemon
1.266 |
Williams
1.618 |
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| PRIME TIME | 3.175 | 2.761 | 2.381 | |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||