Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for November 24, 2009
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,322,000 viewers
CNN – 425,000 viewers
MSNBC –349,000 viewers
CNBC – 178,000 viewers
HLN –298,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,542,000 viewers
CNN – 634,000 viewers
MSNBC –764,000 viewers
CNBC – a scratch w/102,000 viewers
HLN –532,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC –376,000 viewers
CNN –107,000 viewers
MSNBC –93,000 viewers
CNBC – 59,000 viewers
HLN- 137,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 728,000 viewers
CNN – 135,000 viewers
MSNBC –197,000 viewers
CNBC – 63,000 viewers
HLN – 188,000 viewers
35-64 Total Day
FNC – 636,000 viewers
CNN – 168,000 viewers
MSNBC – 183,000 viewers
CNBC – 95,000 viewers
HLN - 172,000 viewers
35-64 Prime Time
FNC –1,163,000 viewers
CNN – 253,000 viewers
MSNBC –378,000 viewers
CNBC – 71,000 viewers
HLN –302,000 viewers
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 928,000 viewers (379,000) (592,000)
American Morning- 306,000 viewers (103,000) (137,000)
Morning Joe- 329,000 viewers (101,000) (203,000)
Squawk Box- 157,000 viewers (49,000) (93,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 234,000 viewers (163,000) (181,000)
5PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,677,000 viewers (759,000) (1,228,000)
Situation Room—500,000 viewers (102,000) (181,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—555,000 viewers (133,000) (326,000)
Fast Money—158,000 viewers (43,000) (69,000)
Prime News--233,000 viewers (93,000) (46,000)
6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier– 2,364,000 viewers (557,000) (1,066,000)
Situation Room—449,000 viewers (104,000) (162,000)
Ed Show—526,000 viewers (146,000) (291,000)
Mad Money —134,000 viewers (55,000) (77,000)
Prime News -- 210,000 viewers (74,000) (111,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The Fox Report w/ Shep –2,101,000 viewers (514,000) (962,000)
CNN Tonight—528,000 viewers (113,000) (202,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews—510,000 viewers (115,000) (279,000)
Kudlow Report --- 125,000 viewers (45,000) (71,000)
Issues– 474,000 viewers (153,000) (252,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor– 3,800,000 viewers (1,092,000) (1,758,000)
Campbell Brown – 653,000 viewers (134,000) (236,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 1,011,000 viewers (267,000) (520,000)
Coca-Cola: The Real Story – 156,000 viewers (107,000) (109,000)
Nancy Grace – 701,000 viewers (218,000) (373,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity –2,162,000 viewers (625,000) (1,007,000)
Larry King Live —815,000 viewers (159,000) (341,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —709,000 viewers (141,000) (309,000)
Executive Vision 4—a scratch w/ 79,000 viewers (a scratch w/47,000) (57,000)
Joy Behar- 530,000 viewers (175,000) (297,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On The Record w/ Greta —1,659,000 viewers (466,000) (724,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 429,000 viewers (111,000) (181,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 572,000 viewers (185,000) (304,000)
Bio: Enzo Ferrari – a scratch w/70,000 viewers (a scratch w/35,000) (a scratch w/46,000)
Nancy Grace –412,000 viewers (185,000) (254,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor —1,450,000 viewers (465,000) (761,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 344,000 viewers (96,000) (174,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —348,000 viewers (93,000) (182,000)
Mad Money – a scratch w/102,000 viewers (a scratch w/44,000) (82,000)
Showbiz Tonight-- 400,000 viewers (171,000) (234,000)
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For other days cable news ratings click here.
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.
Ohhh! First reply!
Fox rules! If you don’t agree, then you are a socialist!
Fox sucks! If you don’t agree then you are a redneck Neocon!
Did I cover everything?
To Kathy: I loved your note – you made me laugh out loud! Yes, we’re a very polarized country, and it’s often reflected here, too. But it is amazing how far ahead Fox is now when compared with CNN and MSNBC, no matter what political view you hold. In some time slots, they are more than double the other 2 combined!
Have a terrific Thanksgiving weekend everyone! Let’s all take a break from ratings and enjoy time with our families and friends!
Suprised that GE stockholders allow MSNBC’s Prime Time programing, anchored by Olbermann, Matthews, and Middow, to continue. Having worked for NBC News, during the “glory days” w/Tom Brokaw, Robert Abernathy, David Brinkly, MSNBC News has morphed into the “Gong Show” of cable news!
i am absolutely loving imus in the morning i’d love to see his rating he is really hilarious and was great on hannity last night
“gong show” of cable news…VERY funny, that was…
hey…
does shep smith ever work a full week anymore?
i think he has the lightest schedule of any anchor…and he is not really that good for such a cake walk schedule.
‘The Gong Show of Cable News’ is the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time… and so true!!
To the first post, “fox sucks and if you don’t like it your a neocon.” Thats not true for millions of conservatives like myself. Fox is way to far to the left ninety percent of the time there is no difference between them and cnn on news stories. Fox has two conservative shows big deal. Glenn Beck had a show at cnn and it was way better than what it is at fox but that didn’t make cnn a conservative station. Hannity’s an embarrasment. What am I missing? Has anyone ever watched special report with bret beir that show is nothing but white house talking points from the obamabot major garret. Fox is a joke! I could care less about the suckers who buy into there crap. Trust me there are millions of people who feel like me. Think of how fifty seven million people voted for mccain and according to most fox is the only conservative station so why don’t they have ten million wathcing at any given time.
Tyler, you have to get off the crack pipe. FOX NEWS does rule, but your trying to say they are 90% on the left? That is crazy, watch Fox and Friends, watch Red Eye, even O’Reilly leans to the right and Greta is probably more in the middle.
That’s ok Alex, as you can see, Fox News isn’t going to miss you, they have plenty of people watching them.
Do you notice that the closest MSNBC gets to Fox in ratings is with its Morning Joe show. This is true, whether you look at absolute viewers or percent gap. And, coincidentally, this is the only MSNBC show covered here that doesn’t build every program on Obama cheerleading. Maybe the suits making decisions at MSNBC should pay attention to this fact.
Alex–women are either smart or beautiful? They can’t be both?? Well don’t tell Gretchen Carlson( went to Oxford), Dr. Monica Crowley or Megan Kelly (lawyer). I find most if not all the women at Fox very smart and just happen to be very attractive too. Does the word sexist mean anything to you.
Olby’s lil fishin buddy, Ray Ray is becomin quite a drag on the lineup…which is hard to do when that whole network is suckin on swampwater.
Tyler, can you name all those millions? LOL! If it makes you feel better, watch MSNBC. Fox is doing just fine without you.
FOX news lean to the left? That’s like saying the New York Times leans to the right. If anyting FOX news leans to the right, there are more than just 2 conservatives there, Glenn Beck is not a conservative, he’s a libertarian, they are 2 different things. Just because an independent doesn’t mean he isn’t a little bit to the right. Neil Cavuto is pretty conservative too, there is also Mike Huckabee.
“Just because an independent doesn’t mean he isn’t a little bit to the right.”
Sorry, I was referring to Bill O’reilly but I made a typo.
HEY felixw ..what do you mean “Morning Joe’ gets the closest ratings to fox news that mans show only averages 300,000 viewers he gets the lowest ratings on msnbc ..Keith Olbermann’s the only host on msnbc who averages over 1,000,000 viewers a night followed by rachel maddow who gets 900.000 to 1,000,000 evey week night
James.
He means that “Morning Joe” and “FnF” are separated in ratings by less than 1 million viewers. Which is closer than the prime time shows , KO and TRMS who are behind FOX by over 1 million viewers in their time slots.
I keep reading at the bottom of the post that personal attacks will be deleted or political talk will not be tolerated.
90% of the comments so far appearing fall in theses categories yet they are still on the page.
conservative talking heads are heaviest on the board but I haven’t seen any moderation for their attacks.
@Tim
Well, I haven’t seen moderation on the left either
I think that maybe they’re reserving moderation for personal attacks such as “I’ll kill you,” or similar. If it’s not obviously offensive, i don’t see why moderation is necessary.