Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for December 9, 2009
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,302,000 viewers
CNN – 409,000 viewers
MSNBC –366,000 viewers
CNBC – 220,000 viewers
HLN –351,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,557,000 viewers
CNN – 610,000 viewers
MSNBC –827,000 viewers
CNBC – 192,000 viewers
HLN –723,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC –354,000 viewers
CNN –118,000 viewers
MSNBC –100,000 viewers
CNBC – 60,000 viewers
HLN- 146,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 370,000 viewers
CNN – 154,000 viewers
MSNBC –241,000 viewers
CNBC – 71,000 viewers
HLN – 238,000 viewers
35-64 Total Day
FNC – 629,000 viewers
CNN – 188,000 viewers
MSNBC – 172,000 viewers
CNBC – 116,000 viewers
HLN - 189,000 viewers
35-64 Prime Time
FNC –1,197,000 viewers
CNN – 249,000 viewers
MSNBC –407,000 viewers
CNBC – 106,000 viewers
HLN –349,000 viewers
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 1,003,000 viewers (346,000) (599,000)
American Morning- 248,000 viewers (118,000) (166,000)
Morning Joe- 347,000 viewers (95,000) (167,000)
Squawk Box- 169,000 viewers (39,000) (97,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 337,000 viewers (165,000) (225,000)
5PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,580,000 viewers (694,000) (1,310,000)
Situation Room—573,000 viewers (149,000) (262,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—595,000 viewers (122,000) (266,000)
Fast Money—249,000 viewers (a scratch w/37,000) (108,000)
Prime News —204,000 viewers (68,000) (106,000)
6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier – 2,145,000 viewers (524,000) (950,000)
Situation Room—557,000 viewers (98,000) (202,000)
Ed Show—527,000 viewers (117,000) (237,000)
Mad Money —179,000 viewers (a scratch w/52,000) (93,000)
Prime News – 249,000 viewers (97,000) (145,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The Fox Report w/ Shep –1,890,000 viewers (547,000) (873,000)
CNN Tonight—434,000 viewers (114,000) (194,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—607,000 viewers (174,000) (304,000)
Kudlow Report --- 161,000 viewers (a scratch w/37,000) (71,000)
Issues– 430,000 viewers (132,000) (211,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor – 3,432,000 viewers (867,000) (1,573,000)
Campbell Brown – 450,000 viewers (102,000) (202,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 1,084,000 viewers (313,000) (545,000)
Bio: Bill Gates – 193,000 viewers (56,000) (107,000)
Nancy Grace – 903,000 viewers (275,000) (456,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity –2,452,000 viewers (629,000) (1,142,000)
Larry King Live —853,000 viewers (215,000) (353,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —849,000 viewers (248,000) (408,000)
American Greed — 154,000 viewers (56,000) (73,000)
Joy Behar- 806,000 viewers (250,000) (391,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On The Record w/ Greta —1,788,000 viewers (511,000) (876,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 526,000 viewers (145,000) (192,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 541,000 viewers (163,000) (269,000)
American Greed – 228,000 viewers (99,000) (139,000)
Nancy Grace –526,000 viewers (197,000) (231,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor —1,548,000 viewers (496,000) (801,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 381,000 viewers (135,000) (159,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —380,000 viewers (92,000) (180,000)
Mad Money – a scratch w/108,000 viewers (a scratch w/47,000) (73,000)
Showbiz Tonight-- 494,000 viewers (208,000) (281,000)
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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.
Any chance that CNN may fold HLN back into the mother ship?
Given the weakness of CNN’s evening schedule, a transfer or two from HLN would seem a logical step, ratings-wise. And save a ton on production costs.
Is HLN a wasteful duplication of CNN’s time and money, in this era of audience decline?
I love the HLN day crew – they could easily replace the day daypart deadheads over at CNN.
And as much as I loathe the “embittered bitch” demo that HLN is targeting at night – it has proven much more popular than many of CNN’s PT offerings.
Is a cost-saving merger in the offing?
Cable systems can’t be happy about having to pay for both CNN and HLN and the production cost savings would seem to be compelling…
Same ratings, different days.P.S.
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Anderson Cooper is tanking. He’s doing only slightly better than Keith Olbermann’s rerun, and equal to Nancy Grace’s rerun. Wednesday anyway.
Demonjoe, lets end the link spamming, OK?
Sorry Bill I didn’t know it was a bad link.
How do I know if it is a bad link?
It’s not a bad link, but just stop posting the same link every day in the cable news comments.
Shep Smith and Greta’s numbers are lower than last months. O’Reilly is still at his range. Glenn has been down a couple hundred thousand this month. I think he needs to get back on talking about the economy.
Also, I will NEVER watch Law and Order again. EVER!
Bill, I actually just created that quiz today on Goto quiz.com.
JC, is that because NBC had them talk about the Bush administration prosecutions?
Oh yeah, Big Keith was over a million viewers again! Sure, he got pounded by BOR, and his ratings are drastically lower than last year… But let’s face it, Big Keith’s million plus viewers are so intelligent and great, it’s equal to about 5 million BOR’s unsophisticated viewers.
That is why Big Keith is always so happy with his numbers…..it’s not how high the rating is, it’s the quality of viewers. Progressive/liberal/socialist viewers are so enlightened, they should be counted 5 times. So in Big Keith’s world, he has 5 million viewers at 8pm, and another 2.5 million plus on the rerun. See? He is wonderful!!!
K.O. Lover,
Okay, Keith, stop blogging…it is time to get ready for tonight’s show…
Always respected “Law and Order”-until now..so sad…
CNN is just horrible in prime time it’s as about as interesting as watching paint dry ..just horrible campbell brown needs to be dropped she only garnished 450,000 viewers epic fail
Rachel Maddow is sinking. And no surprise. The Dems announced they want to borrow another two trillion dollars for their spending programs. Meanwhile Rachel is covering the legislative process in Uganda.
But MSNBC can celebrate at least one bit of good news. Maddow’s ratings in Kampala (the capital of Uganda) are on the rise.
Great night of Glenn Beck, he brought on John Stossel.
to K.O. Lover-so you’re saying you are 5 times as valuable as me, WOW!
To K.O. lover- Do you really believe Keith is happy that he is Tanking every night?
Demonjoe, and you’ve already linked to it in two different cable news posts.
Dick Cheney was on ‘Hannity’ the last 2 nights, a 2-part interview that I think helped ratings stay strong.
sorry, those will be the last ones now that I know I’m not supposed too.
Is it all right to give links to news articles?