The breaking news coverage of the California wildfires lifted the cable networks' ratings across the board yesterday. CNN was the big winner in the P25-54 demo. Their total day average (3a-3aET) was 297,000 viewers. FNC averaged 282,000. MSNBC: 150,000.

In Primetime (8-11pmET), perhaps boosted by the oft-promoted Planet in Peril, CNN also came in first. CNN averaged 540,000 viewers in P25-54. FNC averaged 518,000. And MSNBC averaged 311,000.

In total viewers, FNC was the big winner, with the 8pmET version of The O'Reilly Factor leading the pack with 2.75M viewers.

MSNBC chose to stick with its doc block (10p-12M ET).