Thursday Ratings: Al Smith Dinner Gave CNN a Rare Total Ratings Win Over Fox News at 9 PM

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)
5 pm	The Five  382	Blitzer  484	Todd  293
6 pm	Baier  439	Blitzer  456	WADR  299
7 pm	Hume  465	Burnett  633	Matthews  336
8 pm	O’Reilly  618	Cooper  828	Hayes  414
9 pm	Kelly  781	Cooper  1.337	Maddow  652
10 pm	Hannity  606	Lemon  742	O’Donnell  493
11 pm	Hannity  400	Lemon  437	Williams  427
PRIME TIME	669	969	521
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The Five  2.253	Blitzer  1.640	Todd  1.404
6 pm	Baier  2.404	Blitzer  1.440	WADR  1.243
7 pm	Hume  2.115	Burnett  1.790	Matthews  1.751
8 pm	O’Reilly  3.306	Cooper  2.360	Hayes  2.007
9 pm	Kelly  3.583	Cooper  3.851	Maddow  2.875
10 pm	Hannity  2.633	Lemon  2.052	O’Donnell  2.252
11 pm	Hannity  1.588	Lemon  1.266	Williams  1.618
PRIME TIME	3.175	2.761	2.381
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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