Larry & Star Gets Almost 3 Million Viewers

Larry King‘s post-View interview with Star Jones averaged almost 3 million viewers last night, giving CNN a rare win over Fox News in both total viewers and the 25-54 demo.

From 9 to 10pm, King averaged 935,000 demo viewers and 2,984,000 total viewers, tripling his usual nightly numbers. CNN averaged 530,000 demo and 1,600,000 viewers in primetime last night.

CNN has already scheduled an “encore presentation” of Larry and Star for Monday night. The full numbers are below..

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