Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for December 7, 2009
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,271,000 viewers
CNN – 411,000 viewers
MSNBC –335,000 viewers
CNBC – 184,000 viewers
HLN –336,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,511,000 viewers
CNN – 597,000 viewers
MSNBC –787,000 viewers
CNBC – 154,000 viewers
HLN –710,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC –349,000 viewers
CNN –105,000 viewers
MSNBC –98,000 viewers
CNBC – 64,000 viewers
HLN- 154,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 713,000 viewers
CNN – 183,000 viewers
MSNBC –266,000 viewers
CNBC – 82,000 viewers
HLN – 267,000 viewers
35-64 Total Day
FNC – 631,000 viewers
CNN – 163,000 viewers
MSNBC – 166,000 viewers
CNBC – 101,000 viewers
HLN - 181,000 viewers
35-64 Prime Time
FNC –1,187,000 viewers
CNN – 236,000 viewers
MSNBC –406,000 viewers
CNBC – 95,000 viewers
HLN –372,000 viewers
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 940,000 viewers (336,000) (584,000)
American Morning- 264,000 viewers (77,000) (118,000)
Morning Joe- 338,000 viewers (92,000) (193,000)
Squawk Box- 143,000 viewers (60,000) (81,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 409,000 viewers (252,000) (227,000)
5PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,706,000 viewers (693,000) (1,271,000)
Situation Room—548,000 viewers (113,000) (180,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—470,000 viewers (94,000) (210,000)
Fast Money—237,000 viewers (73,000) (153,000)
Prime News —237,000 viewers (91,000) (152,000)
6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier – 2,271,000 viewers (492,000) (1,052,000)
Situation Room—529,000 viewers (120,000) (198,000)
Ed Show—511,000 viewers (98,000) (219,000)
Mad Money —232,000 viewers (82,000) (128,000)
Prime News – 275,000 viewers (114,000) (184,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The Fox Report w/ Shep –2,155,000 viewers (543,000) (963,000)
CNN Tonight—501,000 viewers (133,000) (187,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—625,000 viewers (192,000) (319,000)
Kudlow Report --- 160,000 viewers (a scratch w/38,000) (76,000)
Issues– 455,000 viewers (176,000) (251,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor – 3,553,000 viewers (1,008,000) (1,682,000)
Campbell Brown – 585,000 viewers (167,000) (232,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 1,031,000 viewers (328,000) (551,000)
American Original: Budweiser – 146,000 viewers (67,000) (93,000)
Nancy Grace – 764,000 viewers (274,000) (378,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity –2,181,000 viewers (633,000) (1,015,000)
Larry King Live —647,000 viewers (221,000) (249,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —799,000 viewers (253,000) (410,000)
New Age of Wal-Mart — 156,000 viewers (85,000) (83,000)
Joy Behar- 824,000 viewers (249,000) (437,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On The Record w/ Greta —1,787,000 viewers (492,000) (852,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 560,000 viewers (160,000) (228,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 532,000 viewers (218,000) (257,000)
Marijuana Inc. – 160,000 viewers (95,000) (111,000)
Nancy Grace –589,000 viewers (288,000) (324,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor —1,278,000 viewers (424,000) (691,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 450,000 viewers (156,000) (210,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —351,000 viewers (116,000) (174,000)
Mad Money – a scratch w/54,000 viewers (a scratch w/16,000) (a scratch w/31,000)
Showbiz Tonight-- 394,000 viewers (174,000) (236,000)
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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.
I knew the top story of Tiger would be enough to push Big Keith over a million. Incredible! AND he beat Fox and Friends again. And his rerun hit half a million. The list goes on and on….
This was a difficult show for Big Keith given that MNF was on, he must’ve been so torn not giving expert analysis on the Packers and Ravens. Well, just wait until Sunday.
Ray Maddow is in trouble. When you cant beat that vile, loudmouthed shrew, Joy Behar, it’s time to hit the road.
Bill O once again gives olberazzwipe a butt kicking . LOL
Becks back at his usual numbers again. Greta is lower than usual. She normally gets over 2,000,000
I don’t see how there are so many idiots who watch fox news. I’m not a partisan hack. I’m a conservative but come on. Nothing but newt gingrich who wanted a communist to run in new york, karl rove who wanted to give amnesty to illegals and dick morris who i don’t mind as much even though he was a political hack for the clintons. Can’t they find anyone else. There are many brilliant conservatives who write for the american thinker and other websites. Its always the same washed up tired hacks going over pathetic talking points. Its a joke.
I live about twenty miles from where the four lakewood police officers were killed. Today is the memorial service. Police from all over the country and world are in attendance. There is over one hundred thousand people. Not a mention of it on fox news. I saw that fat gas bag neil cavuto interview the guy who paroled the cop killer about a completely different topic.
Must be fun being Keith Olbermann. You can spend an hour every night taking cheap shots at people you would never dare interview. You never need to give anyone a chance to respond to your over-the-top claims. And you can spend a whole year on TV without ever having to answer a hard question yourself.
But it’s not so much fun having to watch Keith Olbermann, which is why his ratings continue to tank. Again O’Reilly gets more viewers for his 11 PM rerun than KO attracts in prime time.
KO Lover, You have to realize that olberman beat fox and friends by 100,000, and fox and friends is at 9am!, Countdown Is on Prime time 8PM!! So what if their best show on primetime beats some morning news show?
I have been comparing packages from all the satellite/cable providers in my area (central Florida) and none of the companies offer MSNBC with a basic package. People in this area have to pay $10 to $20 a month more to get an upgraded package with MSNBC. However, Fox is offered with all of the programming packages. I imagine that it is the same across the country. Many people today are trying to cut monthly expenses, and the first thing to go is often upgraded cable. Therefore, comparing ratings between Fox and MSNBC is NOT comparing apples to apples.
tyler, you are a bald faced lier! you are no more conservative then that loonytoon at daily kos, what an idiot you are, you expect us to believe that you are a conservative bashing FOX NEWS, right!!!! and any other libs here dont even try to say that you are conservatives also and you hate FOX NEWS. PLEASEEEEEEEEE!!!FOX NEWS beats the other obama networks cnn and msnbc combined, they are losers now, and so is obama, his poll numbers are tanking so fast, finally people are waking up to what an empty suit he is, those are clintons words not mine, but so true, but he can read a telepromter.
Sandra, my elderly, religious, SOUTHERN Dad is as conservative as they come. Hell would freeze over before he would EVER vote Democrat for ANY office and he is completely turned off by FOX’s turn to the extreme fringe of the right wing party. When I heard him bad mouthing Huckabee AND Beck? I had to rethink my perception of him. When HE won’t watch FOX? I know plenty of Conservatives that are as turned off by Fox as Progressives that are turned off by MSNBC. Until these fringe groups of the two political parties loosen their grip I doubt he’ll ever vote again and I don’t remember a time he hasn’t voted. The world is not as black and white as the media, conservative nor liberal, would have us believe.
@terri
MSNBC has droped in the number of households because no one watches them. For the longest time Fox was in last place in terms of households that had access, and they still clobbered the competition. CNN has the most (see top) and they are nearing dead last. Stop making excuses.
For Terri – you must be new to the site… right under the ratings you will see the total number of households that get each channel. In his case, Fox = 96.26 million and MSNBC 92.64 million. So a difference of 3.62 million or about 4% (3.63/92.64). So you are right, MSNBC is available in 4% fewer households so one should adjust the numbers… but really, Fox beats MSNBC by 2-4x depending on the show/time slot, so adjusting MSNBC up by 4% (or Fox down by 4%) is really not going to make much of a difference.
Tyler, I watched FOX most of the day, until 1pm PST, and I saw on several occasion FOX have on the funeral for the four slain heroes. Not sure what yuo were watchjing on those times, you must not have been paying attention!
Wake up teabaggers on here,Fox is falling star.Beck is losing all the young veiwers.I know Republicans who say they can’t believe anything what Fox have to say when you have Karl Rove,Cheney,Dana Perino,and the rest of the Bush regime on there every night so tyler and gbd are not lying. Fox just keep it simple and stupid because their viewers are slow and uneducated.That’s why you never hear Fox talking bad about the finacial insitutions because the their viewers are to dumb to understand it and the Repulicans got us in this mess.
Hey skillshoe, Beck still has more than twic the younger viewers than OB who interviews all the communists, socialist, and marxist workers of Obama.
maddow used to have trouble hitting a mil now 800k is a good night
skillshoe, all you simply did was insult millions of people who choose a different news station. Apparantley liberals only care about choice in terms of abortion.
You simply showed the immaturity o0f those on the left by calling us all dumb.
Teri people should be happy they dont get MSNBC that way its one less channel to have to scan by when your looking for real news.
Tyler when you rant you should check your facts Huckabee didnt Parole the cop killer he granted him clemency. Big difference!
Terri, not a big difference between number of HH
CNN/HLN: 99.098 million HHs
CNBC: 96.78 million HHs
FNC: 96.26 million HHs
MSNBC: 92.64 million HHs
So what Fox news high rating. We Dems WON the White House and all you GOPers got is high Fox news ratings. We Dems have careers and/or college to go to. We’re not in our trailer watching FNC, smoking Marlboros, waiting for the mailman to drop off your government welfare check. You RightWingers ever heard of “the big tent”? How many Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Gays and young college age White kids, in your party???? The GOP is nothing but a bunch of gumpy old White men. The DNC has all has all colors in it “big tent. As the days goes on the GOP is getting smaller and the Dems are adding more members. HaHaHaHa…Time is on the Dems side.
p.ness–just want to clear up a few things,,,, i smoke true cigarettes, my mail carrier is a female (does that gender violation get you thrown out of the club?)also, I apologize for being white but I’m not old and i’m even in a good mood,,,UNLIKE vitriolic, intolerant, no fact lefties like you