Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for October 10, 2008
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,420,000 viewers
CNN –970,000 viewers
MSNBC –748,000 viewers
CNBC – 492,000 viewers
HLN – 334,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,794,000 viewers
CNN –1,800,000 viewers
MSNBC--1,636,000 viewers
CNBC –274,000 viewers
HLN – 666,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC – 364,000 viewers
CNN –326,000 viewers
MSNBC – 277,000 viewers
CNBC –167,000 viewers
HLN- 132,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 657,000 viewers
CNN –612,000 viewers
MSNBC –572,000 viewers
CNBC –121,000 viewers
HLN – 262,000 viewers
35-64 Total Day
FNC – 664,000 viewers
CNN – 486,000 viewers
MSNBC – 366,000 viewers
CNBC – 285,000 viewers
HLN – 175,000 viewers
35-64 Prime Time
FNC – 1,196,000 viewers
CNN – 895,000 viewers
MSNBC –850,000 viewers
CNBC –172,000 viewers
HLN --361,000 viewers
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends –1,203,000 viewers (330,000) (698,000)
American Morning-608,000 viewers (224,000) (353,000)
Morning Joe- 662,000 viewers (251,000) (322,000)
Squawk Box- 412,000 viewers (159,000) (257,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 310,000 viewers (138,000) (181,000)
6PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Brit Hume – 1,862,000 viewers (392,000) (755,000)
Situation Room- 1,079,000 viewers (291,000) (583,000)
Race/White House w/d Gregory- 1,047,000 viewers (311,000) (498,000)
Fast Money– 478,000 viewers (204,000) (322,000)
Prime News-286,000 viewers (157,000) (186,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Fox Report w/ Shepard Smith – 1,759,000 viewers (382,000) (732,000)
Lou Dobbs–1,284,000 viewers (376,000) (601,000)
Hardball w/Chris Matthews—1,296,000 viewers (479,000) (693,000)
**Is Your Money Safe (7PM-11PM)— 302,000 viewers (131,000) (184,000)
Glenn Beck – 335,000 viewers (136,000) (166,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor—3,511,000 viewers (740,000) (1,399,000)
Election Center—1,380,000 viewers (442,000) (705,000)
Countdown w/Keith Olbermann– 1,824,000 viewers (591,000) (969,000)
Nancy Grace –1,164,000 viewers (439,000) (625,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity & Colmes—2,971,000 viewers (758,000) (1,326,000)
Larry King Live—2,014,000 viewers (645,000) (970,000)
Rachel Maddow--1,941,000 viewers (684,000) (981,000)
Glenn Beck- 431,000 viewers (181,000) (225,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On the Record w/Greta —1,900,000 viewers (472,000) (864,000)
Anderson Cooper 360—1,991,000 viewers (749,000) (1,010,000)
Countdown w/Keith Olbermann—1,143,000 viewers (442,000) (599,000)
Nancy Grace –457,000 viewers (187,000) (259,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor—1,672,000 viewers (539,000) (853,000)
Anderson Cooper 360—1,263,000 viewers (606,000) (749,000)
Rachel Maddow Show–837,000 viewers (347,000) (461,000)
Mad Money- 243,000 viewers (127,000) (153,000)
Showbiz Tonight– 368,000 viewers (123,000) (169,000)
P2+ = viewers over the age of 2
(25-54) = Adults 25-54 viewing
(35-64) = Adults 35-64 viewing
Prime Time = 8-11pm
LIVE+SD: The number that watched a program either while it was broadcast OR watched via DVR on the same day [through 3AM the next day] the program was broadcast. For more information see Numbers 101.
Scratch = when a show's audience fails to meet minimum Nielsen reporting levels. For more information go here.
Nielsen Cable Network Coverage Estimates (as of March, 2008)
CNN/HLN: 96.93 million HHs
CNBC: 95.13 million HHs
FNC: 94.55 million HHs
MSNBC: 91.59 million HHs
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
I see that Keith O. and Rachel Maddow are wiping the asses of Fox if you take an in person survey in my neighborhood. I’ve gotten many to change to MSNBC by being persistant and they haven’t said anything to me so I assume they made the switch to MSNBC.
I’m hoping President Obama does something about Fox News. He’s our ONLY hope!!!
Pink Bear, some of your earlier posts were better disguised. This one I’d rate a 9/10 on the Troll-O-Meter.
Pinko Bear
Im sure Olberpuke and Madcow are popular in Greenwich Village and Chelsea.
No amount of hope and wishing will get MSNBC ahead of Fox–ever!
Keith O. and Rachel Maddow will get higher ratings once President Obama is installed. Mark my Words!!
Why would anyone watch anything other than Fox? I guess you liberals enjoy lying to each other. SO sad.
Can we please just drop this partisan mud slinging and focus on the numbers here?
Honestly, its like a bunch of 5 year olds recently.
Liberals don’t like Fox (totally justified), Conservatives don’t like MSNBC (totally justified) or CNN (much less justified). We get it. how about some new number trend that no one else posted?
I wish our weekly Olbermann V O’Reilly graph was posed for each time slot and all networks. I’m sure some of the longer term trends would prove interesting
Chris, I used to do something like that when we started the site about a year ago, but it was just way too much work. The O’Reilly v. Olbermann chart is 4 numbers per day to chart. If I did all the numbers in this post, I could spend all day doing these charts
i find it interesting that fox continues to rake in many more viewers then cnn and msnbc. i wondered if its a indicative of the fact that fox really is the only right leaning major cable network on tv or could it be that this country….like bobby jindal said is a “right leaning country”. I guess we’ll get another clue after november 4th.
This year will be a center (slightly left) leaning county. Yes!!! Obama ’08
We must be viligant and keep the Democrats in office two years from now too. Election for congress & senate starts again on November 5, 2008.
Rachel Maddow is a cow. Stupid hater dyke.
I think, as Hillary Clinton has said, that Fox News is the most “Fair and Balanced” meaning that though they do lean closer to the right, they will not shy away at all from letting left oppinions on their programs.