Prime Time Cable News Ratings June 15-18: Hannity Takes The Top Spot for Wednesday’s Interview with President Trump

The Ratings Junkie

	Network	Day	A25-54	A18-49	A18-34	Total viewers
Hannity	FOX News	Wednesday	0.73	0.47	0.24	4.532
Tucker Carlson Tonight	FOX News	Monday	0.69	0.40	0.17	4.198
Tucker Carlson Tonight	FOX News	Wednesday	0.62	0.41	0.21	4.044
The Ingraham Angle	FOX News	Wednesday	0.59	0.36	0.23	3.624
Tucker Carlson Tonight	FOX News	Tuesday	0.56	0.34	0.15	4.041
Hannity	FOX News	Monday	0.55	0.31	0.16	3.683
Hannity	FOX News	Thursday	0.54	0.32	0.14	3.854
Hannity	FOX News	Tuesday	0.54	0.31	0.15	3.897
The Ingraham Angle	FOX News	Thursday	0.53	0.30	0.17	3.384
Tucker Carlson Tonight	FOX News	Thursday	0.52	0.34	0.17	3.973
The Ingraham Angle	FOX News	Tuesday	0.49	0.28	0.12	3.598
Cuomo Prime Time	CNN	Wednesday	0.47	0.30	0.11	2.010
The Ingraham Angle	FOX News	Monday	0.47	0.23	0.13	3.097
CNN Tonight	CNN	Wednesday	0.44	0.30	0.14	1.762
Cuomo Prime Time	CNN	Thursday	0.40	0.27	0.13	1.896
CNN Tonight	CNN	Monday	0.38	0.26	0.13	1.574
Cuomo Prime Time	CNN	Monday	0.37	0.27	0.14	1.730
CNN Tonight	CNN	Thursday	0.37	0.23	0.13	1.608
Anderson Cooper 360	CNN	Wednesday	0.37	0.22	0.09	1.720
Anderson Cooper 360	CNN	Monday	0.36	0.24	0.09	1.590
Rachel Maddow Show	MSNBC	Thursday	0.36	0.24	0.07	3.180
CNN Global Town Hall	CNN	Thursday	0.36	0.22	0.10	1.641
CNN Tonight	CNN	Tuesday	0.35	0.23	0.10	1.429
Rachel Maddow Show	MSNBC	Tuesday	0.35	0.22	0.07	2.905
Cuomo Prime Time	CNN	Tuesday	0.34	0.22	0.12	1.703
Rachel Maddow Show	MSNBC	Monday	0.33	0.21	0.50	2.748
Rachel Maddow Show	MSNBC	Wednesday	0.31	0.21	0.08	2.616
Anderson Cooper 360	CNN	Tuesday	0.29	0.18	0.10	1.450
Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell	MSNBC	Tuesday	0.26	0.17	0.06	2.202
All In with Chris Hayes	MSNBC	Wednesday	0.25	0.16	0.05	1.809
Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell	MSNBC	Thursday	0.24	0.16	0.04	2.353
Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell	MSNBC	Wednesday	0.23	0.14	0.04	2.214
All In with Chris Hayes	MSNBC	Thursday	0.22	0.14	0.05	1.979
Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell	MSNBC	Monday		0.14		1.997
All In with Chris Hayes	MSNBC	Monday		0.10		1.670

The big story this week, as stated in the headline, is the high ratings Hannity had on Wednesday night’s broadcast, when he interviewed President Trump. The airing won the week across all demographics. In general, it was another great week for FOX News, with all 12 of their hours in the top 13. This was interrupted only by Wednesday's Cuomo Prime Time on CNN, which tied Monday’s Ingraham Angle in the key A25-54 demo and out-rated it in A18-49.

There were clearly ups and downs in MSNBC’s week. Rachel Maddow Show continues to prove to be the night’s tentpole for the network, and higher-rated episodes managed to do better than some of CNN’s programming. Still, seeing blank boxes for Monday’s Last Word and All In is a result of those shows not being in Monday’s cable top 50.

CNN’s top six hours were all broadcasts of Cuomo Prime Time or the Don Lemon-anchored CNN Tonight. Anderson Cooper 360, by far the longest-running show of the trio, often lagged behind a bit. Tuesday’s broadcast was CNN’s lowest-rated prime time hour this week, and lost to all four broadcasts of Rachel Maddow Show.