There were some requests recently in our cable news ratings comments for a comparison of the Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly ratings since Beck joined Fox News. I think the comparison is extremely apples to oranges because of the different timeslots (plus, they're not competing with each other, except perhaps in an A-Rod/Jeter way), but Reader Dave was motivated to produce the chart, so take it for what it's worth.
The trend lines above are 30 day moving averages.
This is a collaboration between two of our readers. Reader Dave created the chart using the data patiently assembled by reader MikeS.
For complete information on all cable news ratings check our daily cable news ratings posts.
Anybody else wanting to produce trend charts of any of our other data, drop me an email.
Nielsen Cable Network Coverage Estimates (as of September, 2009)
CNN/HLN: 99.10 million HHs
CNBC: 96.78 million HHs
FNC: 96.26 million HHs
MSNBC: 92.64 million HHs
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
I think they are both a wonderful assest to the Fox News Channel, and it is so nice to see that they both have enormous respect for one another. Go Fox!
Wow, Thanks. Does anyone think its possible Glenn can pass O’Reilly?
Oh, and Karen, you need to stop watchnig MSNBC. lol.
I forgot to ask, do you guys have the numbers for Friday? I’m curious to see what effect the whole “war on Fox” did for Fox’s ratings.
@ Bluto, it’s a hilarious hypocrisy that you say “why don’t you libs try to form an actual argument instead of name-calling” and you end your rant by saying liberals live in their mom’s basement ‘waiting for that first date”.
Hypocrisy is everywhere.
I forgot to ask, do you guys have the numbers for Friday? I’m curious to see what effect the whole “war on Fox” did for Fox’s ratings.
Friday’s ratings won’t be available until Monday afternoon.
@ Mick
Pew research did a study of cable news viewers a while back, and guess what they found.
O’Reilly’s viewers were the most knowledgable. FOX viewers in general edged just ahead of CNN, while MSNBC was found to have the least knowledgable viewers. Go to their website and look it up yourself.
And of course you’ll get alot of hits. Most liberals are people under 30 who seem to think that by spammin websites like this one, it’ll help your cause. And Jon Stewart? Really? And I thought libs were supposed to hate stereotypism.
Some forget that Jon Stewart’s show is joke news. Beck is saying what needs to be said and that’s why his ratings are so high. He refuses to lie or tow the party line like most commentators on the other networks and it’s paying off.
Mick,
By “googling” your “Fox news, most uninformed,”…. all you’re doing is reading liberal talking points.
We need to go to sites that are NOT, in any way partisan.
Fox: Fairly Unbalanced! Seriously, it appears both O’s and Beck’s ratings trends follow one another? Like Bill said, “apples to oranges” but nice to know none the less. I’m sure the radical Conservatives will twist this latest info to suit their irrational justifications. Fun to watch!
Brady Bunch ratings on tvland?
Lucy ratings on hallmark?
Any airing is fine.
Just curious not the end of my life.
From all the studies I have seen it is age and sex that seems to make the most informed viewers.
Who Knows News? What You Read or View Matters, but Not Your Politics
Pew Research Center tested the public’s political knowledge earlier this year, the best-informed news audiences crossed the ideological spectrum. Nearly half of regular readers of The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Harper’s Magazine (48%) answered three political knowledge questions correctly. Regular listeners of NPR (44% three correct), and regular viewers of Hardball (43%) and Hannity & Colmes (42%) also fared well compared with other news audiences.
While majorities in most news audiences knew that the Democrats have a majority in the House, regular viewers of Hannity & Colmes (84%), and listeners of Rush Limbaugh’s radio program (83%) scored best on this question.Large proportions of regular Hannity & Colmes viewers (73%) and Limbaugh listeners (71%) also identified Rice as the secretary of state; regular NPR listeners (72%) and readers of The New Yorker and other elite magazines (71%) also did well on this question.
Seems you can watch Fox or listen to Rush and end up knowing as much as the viewers of NPR.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/993/who-knows-news-what-you-read-or-view-matters-but-not-your-politics
Do you have any data for the Beck rebroadcast at 2:00 am east, 11:00 pm pacific?
RUKidding, we post all the daily cable news ratings we get.
CNN can be fun watched on Fox watched on Youtube
Cool! What would be *really* interesting is to do a chart comparing Beck’s ratings when he was on CNN and Beck’s ratings on FNC. No idea if you guys have those numbers – and I’m not aware of his timeslot on CNN, so that comparison might be too iffy – but it’d be interesting to look at his performance at CNN vs. FNC.
There certainly seems to be a sharp upward trend as of August. Was that just the healthcare issue?
I also wonder if the Beck-O’Reilly cross-pollination has an appreciable effect. I think Beck is on O’Reilly’s show almost every week; I wonder if that sends O’Reilly viewers his way.
lynn said “fox viewers are misinformed”
Yeah, and all republicans are dumb racist rednecks, and conservatives are simply mentally retarded. *droll*
I contend that since FOX is the ONLY network that report ALL the news – good or bad for the president – that FOX viewers are the most informed. If you watch CNN or MSNBC, you didn’t hear about the massive ACORN corruption until 5 days after FOX viewers (when the census droped them and the senate defunded them). In fact CNN/MSNBC went after the journalists who exposed ACORN.
CNN/MSNBC viewers didn’t even know who Van Jones was until after he resigned. CNN/MSNBC viewers probably still don’t know who Anita Dunn ideolizes. They don’t know about Mark Sustien, Rahm Emanuel, Goerge Sorros($$$), Mark Lloyed….; should I go on? All they know is that potente Obama won the peace prize, those “EVIL REPUBLICANS” want you to die from no health care, and balloon boy in the attic.
Billkid, I call BS.
Where’d you get that? mediamatters?
Glenn said that Anita ideolizing Moa would be like me saying one of my favorite political philosophers is adolf hitler, have you read mien komph?
Headline on mediamatters was something like: “Does Glenn Beck ideolize Adolf Hitler?”
lol. That’s what the left does best.
I see the White House staffers have joined the ranks here!
Thank you for the chart Bill and Reader Dave! It does seem that the trends for Beck were unusually good for news but appear to be leveling off to nearly the same increases/decreases as O’Reilly toward the end. Due to the time slot, only if Beck does something particularly interesting (his analysis of Obama appointees in their own speeches/books/interviews/etc) vs. a normal O’Reilly day, that looks like his best chance to beat O’Reilly.
But that’s not entirely impossible. In fact, given his extensive coverage of video recordings of little-known speeches by Obama’s appointees as they praise mass murdering communists, that alone is enough of a shock that he could build serious ratings juice. “Guess who in Obama’s team praised Chairman Mao” is becoming a recurring thing, and (at least with Van Jones) Beck had been getting results.
Watching Glenn Beck has been like watching the political topics that will be covered by the mainstream media next month. The more he gets to catch big people in their own words, the closer Beck will be to beating O’Reilly.
Mick,
You’ve taken poll results from April 15, 2007. Long before Beck came unto the Fox scene. If you’re going to research polls, Fox, data, etc. please try to be current. All you do is make a fool of yourself. Especially when you post the link for readers.