Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for October 19, 2009
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,302,000 viewers
CNN – 462,000 viewers
MSNBC –386,000 viewers
CNBC – 222,000 viewers
HLN –306,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,511,000viewers
CNN— 620,000 viewers
MSNBC –810,000 viewers
CNBC – a scratch w/ 117,000 viewers
HLN – 523,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC –366,000 viewers
CNN –150,000 viewers
MSNBC –143,000 viewers
CNBC – 76,000 viewers
HLN- 156,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 658,000 viewers
CNN – 196,000 viewers
MSNBC –253,000 viewers
CNBC – a scratch w/52,000 viewers
HLN – 204,000 viewers
35-64 Total Day
FNC – 621,000 viewers
CNN – 217,000 viewers
MSNBC – 197,000 viewers
CNBC – 113,000 viewers
HLN - 177,000 viewers
35-64 Prime Time
FNC –1,155,000 viewers
CNN – 317,000 viewers
MSNBC –402,000 viewers
CNBC –66,000 viewers
HLN –280,000 viewers
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 954,000 viewers (458,000) (654,000)
American Morning- 358,000 viewers (167,000) (231,000)
Morning Joe- 285,000 viewers (96,000) (158,000)
Squawk Box- 173,000 viewers (66,000) (96,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 315,000 viewers (235,000) (262,000)
5PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,614,000 viewers (765,000) (1,268,000)
Situation Room—696,000 viewers (167,000) (280,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—459,000 viewers (135,000) (223,000)
Fast Money—324,000 viewers (115,000) (183,000)
Prime News--228,000 viewers (92,000) (127,000)
6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier– 2,227,000 viewers (482,000) (990,000)
Situation Room—542,000 viewers (160,000) (242,000)
Ed Show—557,000 viewers (207,000) (292,000)
Mad Money —221,000 viewers (87,000) (113,000)
Prime News -- 260,000 viewers (73,000) (121,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The Fox Report w/ Shep –2,068,000 viewers (459,000) (869,000)
Lou Dobbs Tonight—458,000 viewers (139,000) (216,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews—601,000 viewers (205,000) (330,000)
Kudlow Report --- 164,000 viewers (69,000) (93,000)
Issues– 463,000 viewers (132,000) (196,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor– 3,323,000 viewers (829,000) (1,501,000)
Campbell Brown - 547,000 viewers (168,000) (251,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 975,000 viewers (280,000) (515,000)
Business of Innovation – a scratch w/98,000 viewers (a scratch w/42,000) (54,000)
Nancy Grace – 838,000 viewers (306,000) (425,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity –2,403,000 viewers (620,000) (1,092,000)
Larry King Live —668,000 viewers (204,000) (332,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —864,000 viewers (285,000) (407,000)
Bio: Ray Kroc – 164,000 viewers (69,000) (89,000)
Joy Behar- 385,000 viewers (133,000) (211,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On The Record w/ Greta Van Susteren —1,806,000 viewers (524,000) (870,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 —644,000 viewers (217,000) (368,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 590,000 viewers (193,000) (285,000)
Entrepreneurs – a scratch w/88,000 viewers (a scratch w/46,000) (55,000)
Nancy Grace –393,000 viewers (189,000) (230,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor —1,302,000 viewers (444,000) (682,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 —345,000 viewers (158,000) (207,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —444,000 viewers (185,000) (246,000)
Mad Money – a scratch w/103,000 viewers (a scratch w/49,000) (64,000)
Showbiz Tonight-- 269,000 viewers (158,000) (155,000)
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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 September, 2009)
CNN/HLN: 99.098 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.
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Doesn’t nearly a 1 million viewer dropoff from O’Reilly to Hannity tell Fox News something? It should scream – put Glenn Beck in Hannity’s slot!!!
Not bad numbers for Fox considering MNF was copetition last night.
It’s time to put the Ed Show and Hardball out to pasture. There is no hope for these shows to ever bring any significance to MSNBC’s ratings.
MSNBC and CNN are tanking. Maybe they should try a new format. CARTOONS! ROTF LMAO !!!
Fox News is still demolishing its competition. Those crybabies at the white house and their cheeleaders at MSLSD will have to live with it whether they like it or not. Having Olberwoman and Madcow recite far left talking points night after night along with Chris Matthews having a thrill up his leg about the president and Mr. Ed braying about the president all the time shows they are more interested in preaching to the choir who drinks their kool-aid all the time.
I suspect Olberman’s ratings reflect only people who detest him not actual viewers. Matthews ratings like Matthews him self continues to constantly “GO DOWN”!
In sum; FOX semploys attractive staffers with personalities while MSNBC features what can only be considered a FREAKING FREAK SHOW.
Cartoons sure seem to work for Fox News! I’m sorry, I meant buffoons! :^)
Bruce…..the left is loosing it’s grip on the media and you guys on the left can’t handle it. Just desserts.
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I agree with 1:41pm, put Glenn Beck in Hannity’s slot. How can people actually buy what this Administration is doing? I’m surprised Beck does not have 6 million viewers!
LOL !!!! Robin Meade is beating Morning Joe. I love it !!
It’s over Joe and Mika
gbd you are funny but don’t give up your day job.
Ha Ha. Olberman went under a million. His ratings are continueing to decline.
Put Beck in primetime
How long do think it will take MSNBC to replace Morning Joe.
Beck beat the entire MSNBC primtime line up COMBINED… from the 2 pm slot .. too funny.
Fox news is not a legitimate news organization
scarborough is the last and only conservative on pmsnbc…he deserves better than to be on that propaganda tool network.
Tony,
I’m not so sure Joe is that conservative any longer. He seems to be siding with libs quite often.
He rarely takes Obama to “task” for anything.
Mass Comm Student says:
Fox news is not a legitimate news organization
But they sure are kicking all the legit “news” organizations collective asses. LMAO
Actuall it is MSNBC that resembles cartoons. You have Foghorn Leghorn-Ed Schultz, Beavis-Chris Mathhews, Butthead-Keith Olbermann, and Daffy Duck-Rachal Maddow.
Fox does not report what Obama, Axelrod and Rahm Emmanuel tell them to report.
This means they are not a legitimate news organization.
If you do not agree 100% with every holy word from Obama’s mouth, you are a racist.
If you stand up for your beliefs, and exercise your constitutional right to disagree and protest, you are a swastika carrying, unAmerican evildoer.
HOWEVER- If you drug and rape a 13 year old girl, then run from the law to Switzerland, you did not commit “rape rape”
1984 visits 2009, and Atlas shrugs as he weeps over the Animal Farm. Welcome to the insane, upside down, evil-filled world of the ObamaNation.
Cable news rating are a joke over all. O’Reilly getting 3 million is still very small when you real think about it. 2 million came to see Obama in the cold LOL !
We live in nation with 300 million people a million or 3 is a drop in the bucket.