Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for September 1, 2009
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,428,000 viewers
CNN – 563,000 viewers
MSNBC –398,000 viewers
CNBC – 213,000 viewers
HLN – 351,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,773,000viewers
CNN— 939,000 viewers
MSNBC –1009,000 viewers
CNBC – 139,000 viewers
HLN – 672,000viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC –388,000 viewers
CNN –144,000 viewers
MSNBC –120,000 viewers
CNBC – 78,000 viewers
HLN- 181,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 754,000 viewers
CNN – 225,000 viewers
MSNBC –280,000 viewers
CNBC – 56,000 viewers
HLN – 301,000 viewers
35-64 Total Day
FNC – 667,000 viewers
CNN – 240,000 viewers
MSNBC – 197,000 viewers
CNBC – 114,000 viewers
HLN - 208,000 viewers
35-64 Prime Time
FNC –1,298,000 viewers
CNN – 365,000 viewers
MSNBC –513,000 viewers
CNBC –87,000 viewers
HLN –364,000 viewers
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 948,000 viewers (393,000) (649,000)
American Morning- 435,000 viewers (124,000) (249,000)
Morning Joe- 346,000 viewers (118,000) (195,000)
Squawk Box- 164,000 viewers (77,000) (115,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 264,000 viewers (214,000) (226,000)
5PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck– 2,778,000 viewers (629,000) (1,151,000)
Situation Room—614,000 viewers (103,000) (231,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—498,000 viewers (108,000) (231,000)
Fast Money—270,000 viewers (a scratch w/ 49,000) (104,000)
Prime News--263,000 viewers (138,000) (174,000)
6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier– 2,104,000 viewers (446,000) (896,000)
Situation Room—570,000 viewers (126,000) (219,000)
Ed Show—527,000 viewers (155,000) (269,000)
Mad Money—226,000 viewers (68,000) (106,000)
Prime News -- 274,000 viewers (144,000) (164,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The Fox Report w/ Shep –2,069,000 viewers (447,000) (894,000)
Lou Dobbs Tonight—420,000 viewers (81,000) (134,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews—616,000 viewers (144,000) (313,000)
Kudlow Report ---186,000 viewers (63,000) (70,000)
Issues– 470,000 viewers (195,000) (274,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor – 3,439,000 viewers (901,000) (1,595,000)
Campbell Brown - 838,000 viewers (151,000) (250,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 1,271,000 viewers (351,000) (666,000)
CNBC Reports– 126,000 viewers (a scratch w/ 42,000) (54,000)
Nancy Grace – 957,000 viewers (435,000) (583,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity –2,632,000 viewers (695,000) (1,244,000)
Larry King Live —1,113,000 viewers (300,000) (479,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —968,000 viewers (257,000) (490,000)
House of Cards – 145,000 viewers (62,000) (104,000)
Issues- 531,000 viewers (197,000) (249,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On The Record w/ Greta Van Susteren —2,242,000 viewers (660,000) (1,050,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 —866,000 viewers (223,000) (365,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 788,000 viewers (232,000) (382,000)
House of Cards – 145,000 viewers (62,000) (104,000)
Nancy Grace –566,000 viewers (292,000) (285,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor —1,420,000 viewers (510,000) (740,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 —641,000 viewers (239,000) (292,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —501,000 viewers (191,000) (296,000)
Mad Money – a scratch w/ 79,000 viewers (a scratch w/ 43,000) (61,000)
Showbiz Tonight-- 393,000 viewers (177,000) (195,000)
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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 October, 2008)
CNN/HLN: 98.63 million HHs
CNBC: 97.13 million HHs
FNC: 94.82 million HHs
MSNBC: 93.00 million HHs
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
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May I be the first to wish this policy change be a courteous, informative, and interesting one without all of the vicious commentary about biases (whatever they are), politics (save that for CSPAN and conventions, please), and mean-spirited attacks. Here’s hoping.
Good luck with that, Nightstar!
The Glenn Beck boycott is totally backfiring. People are actually more interested in his show now, and there will always be advertisers wanting to reach several millions people.
1337…..I’d only add that it backfired in a stunning fashion. By my reckoning they’ve added 30 or 40% to his audience. He’s getting 2.5 to 3.0 million people AT 5PM EST!!
My question is: how long can Fox really keep him in that time slot? Why not replace the 11PM O’Reilly rerun with Beck…or better still, move him to 10PM and move out Gretta an hour. I have to think he’d even top O’Reilly numbers in Prime Time – hell he’s almost doing it at 5PM!
Fox is so far out in front. Other networks are going crazy cuz they can’t figure it out!
As far as Becks’ audience increasing, everybody gathers around to watch a guy threaten to jump off a building!!!!
Except Beck is never going to leave Fox. After the Michael Savage debacle on MSNBC, I doubt Beck is going to say anything too stupid.
Guess we’ll just have to tune in and see!!
Wednesday’s Larry King will have high ratings with the Chris Brown Interview
Even with Laura Ingraham’s more conservative viewpoint, I’m amazed she can draw nearly 3.5 million viewers while Bill O’Reilly is on vacation. It demonstrates the strong demand for conservative cable news programming.
Looks like everyone except those in the West Wing are watching FOX!!
Hardball should be called screwball
Ignatz,, Glenn is up tweeting @ 5am!!! He’s so busy in the am, with his radio show, meetings & once a week visits to fox & friends, we can’t ask him to come on @ 11pm! Good geez, let the man sleep (when his mind allows him to). He doesn’t like doing a taped show because of the connection of a live audience. He needs the 7pm slot.
Think about it this way ABC CBS NBC CNN all Drinking the Obama kook aid Fox provides a different viewpoint from the state run media and their not liking it
@Cody
And would Fox not have the been the state run programming we got for the last 8 years of Bush?
The Masses are asses. ;^)
Yeah, the whole Murdoch machine (Fox, Weekly Standard) drank the Bush neocon kool-aid like many are doing with Obama now.
Beck is great. Somebody has to take a stand against left-wing totalitarian scum like Obama. Obama will try to pull a Chavez and shut down the opposition media. Luckily there are still decent people willing to stand-up against evil scum like Obama, Pelosi, Van Jones and the rest of the Progressive trash. Obama supporters should be ashamed of themselves.
I don’t know if all of them are doing that. I wouldn’t doubt that there is some biased, but I can recall a fare share of instances where cable networks other than Fox brought on people who have been critical of Obama’s policies, especially with healtcare and the economy, obviously. I firmly think that the biased is no where near as extreme as what we saw and continue to see from Fox news.
But lets be honest here, at the end of the day the news market is like everything else in the entertainment industry, it’s a business. And if that means that Fox will continue show guys like Glenn Beck shouting with insanity and making far more gramatical incorrections than even I do, then they will contiue to show it. Before anything else Fox news is a business. Ten years ago Rupert Murodch saw an audience of conservatives who didn’t get enough attention and capatalized upon them. And in years since, the networks audience has grown for the sake of entertainment, not for information.
Nicely said. Sharon. Now hold on to your britches cause dim rightwingers gonna come at ya hard for what you just said!!!!!!!!