Please note: You can view ALL our cable news ratings data, which is regularly updated daily, Monday-Friday (we get the weekend data, too but usually not until Tuesdays, but we post them then).
Today begins a new cable news rating report philosophy here at TVbytheNumbers. In the past, I'd opted for delaying ratings till the end of the week so I could make a nice chart with weekly and historical data from a few shows. Instead, I've decided it's better to provide all the data as soon as we get it in a somewhat less pretty format.
So without further ado, here are all the cable news shows, and all the cable news networks, for all the time periods we have available.
Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for May 1, 2008
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,053,000 viewers
CNN – 524,000 viewers
MSNBC – 348,000 viewers
CNBC – 268,000 viewers
HLN – 262,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,170,000 viewers
CNN – 892 ,000 viewers
MSNBC- 803,000 viewers
CNBC – 231,000 viewers
HLN – 477,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC – 265,000 viewers
CNN –147,000 viewers
MSNBC – 130,000 viewers
CNBC – 77,000 viewers
HLN- 103,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 496,000 viewers
CNN – 189,000 viewers
MSNBC – 307,000 viewers
CNBC –77,000 viewers
HLN – 169,000 viewers
Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 1,106,000 viewers (335,000)
American Morning- 379,000 viewers (149,000)
Morning Joe – 315,000 viewers (122,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 229,000 viewers (108,000)
6PM - P2+ (25-54)
Special Report with Brit Hume – 1,356,000 viewers (237,000)
Situation Room- 519,000 viewers (125,000)
Race to the White House- 623,000 viewers (244,000)
Mad Money – 262,000 viewers (98,000)
Prime News- 198,000 viewers (89,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54)
Fox Report w/ Shepard Smith – 1,372,000 viewers (290,000)
Lou Dobbs – 708,000 viewers (180,000)
Hardball – 707,000 viewers (280,000)
Kudlow & Company- 246,000 viewers (76,000)
Glenn Beck – 477,000 viewers (181,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54)
The O’Reilly Factor- 3,193,000 viewers (694,000)
CNN Election Center– 561,000 viewers (151,000)
Countdown w/Olbermann – 1,183,000 viewers (452,000)
Fast Money- 180,000 viewers (67,000)
Nancy Grace – 579,000 viewers (171,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54)
Hannity & Colmes – 1,965,000 viewers (461,000)
Larry King – 1,036,000 viewers (158,000)
Verdict w/Dan Abrams – 656,000 viewers (218,000)
Deal or No Deal- 454,000 viewers (137,000)
Glenn Beck- 440,000 viewers (150,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54)
On the Record – 1,353,000 viewers (334,000)
Anderson Cooper– 1,078,000 viewers (258,000)
Countdown w/Olbermann – 570,000 viewers (250,000)
Donny Deutsch- a scratch w/ 59,000 viewers (a scratch w/ 27,000)
Nancy Grace – 451,000 viewers (204,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54)
The O’Reilly Factor (repeat) - 1,227,000 viewers (414,000)
Anderson Cooper – 737,000 viewers (198,000)
MSNBC Special- 251,000 viewers (137,000)
Mad Money- a scratch w/ 62,000 viewers (a scratch with 34,000)
Showbiz Tonight– 419,000 viewers (201,000)
Numbers in parentheses are viewing adults 25-54.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 Nielsen Media Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
I’m always amazed by how well Fox News does.
They even have Democratic opperatives saying that Fox has been more “fair and balanced” in their coverage. A person would have to be deaf and blind not so see how MSNBC is so in the tank for Oboma – Especially that Keith Olbermann clown who purports to be a reporter when he is so obviously a rabid advocate
Hi, is it possible you show these data with graphics like what you did before? Thanks!
Kevin, I will still do a weekly O’Reilly v. Olbermann chart on Friday’s, but for the majority of the cable news ratings information, I’m going with daily text posts with all the data instead of weekly charts with only a fraction of the data.
Oh, I mean can you also provide “daily” graphics (hour-by-hour ratings)? That would be easier and faster to figure out… Thanks!
My vote is this: no, sorry, at least not for daily posts.
I’d rather sacrifice some prettiness for timeliness and not creating extra workloads for something most people on our site don’t actually look at. Bill of course may feel free to agree, or completely overrule me here…
My vote is this: no, sorry, at least not for daily posts.
I’d rather sacrifice some prettiness for timeliness and not creating extra workloads for something most people on our site don’t actually look at. Bill of course may feel free to agree, or completely overrule me here…
My vote is this: no, sorry, at least not for daily posts.
I’d rather sacrifice some prettiness for timeliness and not creating extra workloads for something most people on our site don’t actually look at. Bill of course may feel free to agree, or completely overrule me here…
Let me agree 100%.
I produced daily cable news charts back when we began the site last fall. You can see them if you click on the “Cable News” category and go way back.
They were too much work for far too little traffic, so they won’t be coming back.
Let me agree 100%.
I produced daily cable news charts back when we began the site last fall. You can see them if you click on the “Cable News” category and go way back.
They were too much work for far too little traffic, so they won’t be coming back.
Let me agree 100%.
I produced daily cable news charts back when we began the site last fall. You can see them if you click on the “Cable News” category and go way back.
They were too much work for far too little traffic, so they won’t be coming back.
Oh, ok, so sad, but I still wanna explain: The graphic “I mentioned” is not like what you did before (because they are day-by-day trend), what I want is the day’s hour-by-hour rating graphic (although I know it seems impossible…)
Oh, ok, so sad, but I still wanna explain: The graphic “I mentioned” is not like what you did before (because they are day-by-day trend), what I want is the day’s hour-by-hour rating graphic (although I know it seems impossible…)
Oh, ok, so sad, but I still wanna explain: The graphic “I mentioned” is not like what you did before (because they are day-by-day trend), what I want is the day’s hour-by-hour rating graphic (although I know it seems impossible…)
Kevin, you could always make the chart yourself. We’d probably link to it
Kevin, you could always make the chart yourself. We’d probably link to it
Kevin, you could always make the chart yourself. We’d probably link to it
Oh no, I did hourly charts, here’s one of them
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2007/09/04/cable-news-ratings-for-aug-31/498
Way, way too much work for the payoff.
Oh no, I did hourly charts, here’s one of them
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2007/09/04/cable-news-ratings-for-aug-31/498
Way, way too much work for the payoff.
Oh no, I did hourly charts, here’s one of them
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2007/09/04/cable-news-ratings-for-aug-31/498
Way, way too much work for the payoff.