Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for December 4, 2009
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,252,000 viewers
CNN – 525,000 viewers
MSNBC –344,000 viewers
CNBC – 214,000 viewers
HLN –340,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,265,000 viewers
CNN – 832,000 viewers
MSNBC –596,000 viewers
CNBC – 210,000 viewers
HLN –591,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC –352,000 viewers
CNN –146,000 viewers
MSNBC –111,000 viewers
CNBC – 71,000 viewers
HLN- 149,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 560,000 viewers
CNN – 217,000 viewers
MSNBC –147,000 viewers
CNBC – 127,000 viewers
HLN – 209,000 viewers
35-64 Total Day
FNC – 600,000 viewers
CNN – 230,000 viewers
MSNBC – 173,000 viewers
CNBC – 112,000 viewers
HLN - 194,000 viewers
35-64 Prime Time
FNC –953,000 viewers
CNN – 322,000 viewers
MSNBC –291,000 viewers
CNBC – 119,000 viewers
HLN –283,000 viewers
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 1,089,000 viewers (417,000) (678,000)
American Morning- 338,000 viewers (127,000) (180,000)
Morning Joe- 365,000 viewers (105,000) (204,000)
Squawk Box- 180,000 viewers (56,000) (110,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 400,000 viewers (231,000) (271,000)
5PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 1,992,000 viewers (526,000) (889,000)
Situation Room—621,000 viewers (128,000) (202,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—479,000 viewers (83,000) (237,000)
Fast Money—251,000 viewers (a scratch w/41,000) (113,000)
Prime News —296,000 viewers (132,000) (156,000)
6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier – 1,891,000 viewers (392,000) (837,000)
Situation Room—721,000 viewers (170,000) (263,000)
Ed Show—489,000 viewers (116,000) (227,000)
Mad Money —171,000 viewers (57,000) (90,000)
Prime News – 260,000 viewers (98,000) (168,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The Fox Report w/ Shep –1,733,000 viewers (402,000) (709,000)
CNN Tonight—626,000 viewers (117,000) (226,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—610,000 viewers (165,000) (295,000)
Kudlow Report --- 136,000 viewers (a scratch w/30,000) (61,000)
Issues– 322,000 viewers (103,000) (165,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor – 3,077,000 viewers (723,000) (1,245,000)
Campbell Brown – 793,000 viewers (174,000) (291,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 884,000 viewers (212,000) (451,000)
Fast Money (8:00 – 8:30PM). – a scratch w/69,000 viewers (a scratch w/23,000) (a scratch w/45,000)
Options Action (8:30 – 9:00PM) – a scratch w/107,000 viewers (a scratch w/40,000) (64,000)
Nancy Grace – 772,000 viewers (247,000) (357,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity –2,075,000 viewers (501,000) (886,000)
Larry King Live —893,000 viewers (245,000) (350,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —643,000 viewers (147,000) (315,000)
Inside the Mind of Google — 186,000 viewers (110,000) (109,000)
Joy Behar- 555,000 viewers (188,000) (267,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On The Record w/ Greta —1,640,000 viewers (454,000) (727,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 809,000 viewers (236,000) (325,000)
MSNBC Investigates – 261,000 viewers (83,000) (108,000)
Bio: Bill Gates – 344,000 viewers (227,000) (183,000)
Nancy Grace –498,000 viewers (204,000) (249,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor —1,420,000 viewers (485,000) (656,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 606,000 viewers (201,000) (316,000)
MSNBC Investigates —255,000 viewers (137,000) (129,000)
Mad Money – 125,000 viewers (82,000) (76,000)
Showbiz Tonight-- 365,000 viewers (123,000) (185,000)
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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.
Uh oh, Glenn Beck’s under a 2 million.
MSNBC was clobbered by HLN in the A25-54 demo.
wow Fox News had a bad evening friday Glenn Beck couldnt hit 2 million along with Shep Smith,,Bret Baier, and Greta ,,all 4 host were under 2 million viewers ,,,while at msnbc ed shultz is suffering badly in the month on december along with rachel ,,without keith as a lead in her ratings are terrible
Looks like everyone was down on Friday, Fox and Friends out performed Oberdork.
yo Gary ..Keith wasnt even hosting countdown on friday night.david shuster was the host ..everytime Keith actually host countdown his viewers are always over a million
All the numbers were just a bad Friday. Will rebound to their normal FOX domination numbers. Which is funny because FOX was way low and still dominated.
You are right James, Keith usually gets just over a million viewers. And even in the Prime Time slot he has, he sometimes loses to FOX and Friends, which is on at 3am PST, when I sometimes watch it!!
why is are ratings reported low for MSNBC and higher FOX NEWS?. tvnewser is reporting higher numbers for MSNBC and bit lower FOX NEWS
How long will new NBC owner Comcast be patient to send out such one-sided slop as one sees, especially on MSNBC with The Ed Show, Matthews, Olberman and Maddow, but which fewer and fewer actually viewers bother to see. What is perhaps even more important is that although Hannity and Beck are clearly far right conservatives, at least they are ENTERTAINING, while the MSNBC people are not. Perhaps Comcast will scrap boorish losers such as Ed, Matthews, Olberman (please, please get this polluted virus off national TV and back on some San Francisco-only channel where he belongs) and Maddow and get some liberals on who are at least entertaining. Comcast might just do that.
@Akhe, it’s possible the data we received has some errors in it. Unfortunately, I don’t see any reports for December 4 on TV Newser as of 5:40pm PDT. I’m not sure if that’s because they never posted those results or whether they took the post down for some reason.
hey charles Keith Olbermann is going nowhere no time soon .for he is the top star at msnbc with over a million viewers a night lose keith and msnbc will have the same viewers as cnbc
akhe, there is definitely a mistake somewhere. The aggregate Total Day numbers are off between these and TVNewser’s (although the Primetime and individual show numbers seem to be the same).
Mediaite doesn’t have their numbers up yet, so I cannot be sure where the error is.
Simply awesome! Big Keith and Rachelle’s shows had over a combined 1.5 total viewers. On a Friday night no less…..Wow. And when you add in Ed and Chris, that is over 2.5 million viewers for four hours of progressive enlightenment. Amazing.
They all went out cruisin’ for chicks afterwards, Rachel drove.
I wonder if there is any correlation with President Obama’s approval numbers and MSNBCs ratings.
hey Bill sorry for debating you, I will actually looking at Thursday’s numbers. Thank you for all the hard work you do here.
If you really believe this ratings tripe, you need help. Computer guess work. False News ratings are as made up as Palins book sales . Also, I can’t get MSNBC in my area, without buying Comcasts premium package. (The retarded south where they still haven’t heard they lost the civil war.) which I won,t do. It’s the same when I went to a couple of hotels in the south they all had False News, but no MSNBC. I.E The truth is sensored in a lot of markets. As for Glenn Beck, The gays wouldn’t want him, but lets face it, he’s a chubby little Fag. If you want to listen to a right wing chickenhawk who never served in the military because his pussy hurt, be my guest. I’m sure you think he’s a patriot.
Hey, Rob and James, if it was a basketball game between the Nets and the Celtics and the score was 100 to 25 in favor of the Celtics, and the Nets was your team, would you be out crowing that “THE NETS GOT 25 POINTS, GO NETS”. That’s exactly how close Keith Overbite is to Bill O. WAKE UP!!! PMSNBC and everybody over there sucks!!!!!
liberals continue to show how intolerant they are…numbers don’t lie so libs spew hate, insults, vile and venom…even using the fag word…thought gays were under your big umbrella of progressive tolerance–yet you use a word most gays are offended by just to insult Glenn Beck with it.
The worst example is lesbian rachel maddow, who showed a clip on her show of a man being teabagged in a gay bar to show her audience what the term’s origin was. A clip most Americans find offensive and has reincited I’ll feelings and hate speech towards gays again. She threw her gay brothers under the bus just to try and demean the tea party movement. Even the most tolerant American does not want to see a homosexual sexual act that took place in a public bar in primetime tv. It reinforces promiscuous stereotypes the gay community has been fighting for decades. But hey, inflaming intolerance against her own community is no big deal as long as she gets in a cheap shot at tea party goers.
Checking for the military records of msnbc’s primetime lineup….yeah, my computer can’t stop laughing
Olbermann was making comments on Becks ratings on his show tonight. He said that he expected Beck to soon be crying as his ratings are dropping.
Glenn Beck – 1,992,000 viewers @5
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 884,000 viewers @8
Seems like Olbermann is confused about who should be crying.