Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for December 16, 2009
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,301,000 viewers
CNN – 479,000 viewers
MSNBC –367,000 viewers
CNBC – 205,000 viewers
HLN –328,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,480,000 viewers
CNN – 742,000 viewers
MSNBC –912,000 viewers
CNBC – 211,000 viewers
HLN –638,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC –356,000 viewers
CNN –124,000 viewers
MSNBC –96,000 viewers
CNBC – 61,000 viewers
HLN- 145,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 695,000 viewers
CNN – 175,000 viewers
MSNBC –245,000 viewers
CNBC – 84,000 viewers
HLN – 207,000 viewers
35-64 Total Day
FNC – 650,000 viewers
CNN – 189,000 viewers
MSNBC – 166,000 viewers
CNBC – 115,000 viewers
HLN - 183,000 viewers
35-64 Prime Time
FNC –1,224,000 viewers
CNN – 285,000 viewers
MSNBC –444,000 viewers
CNBC – 117,000 viewers
HLN –312,000 viewers
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 1,015,000 viewers (332,000) (574,000)
American Morning- 347,000 viewers (126,000) (183,000)
Morning Joe- 376,000 viewers (106,000) (194,000)
Squawk Box- 171,000 viewers (61,000) (98,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 359,000 viewers (211,000) (244,000)
5PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,476,000 viewers (665,000) (1,221,000)
Situation Room—621,000 viewers (88,000) (148,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—527,000 viewers (94,000) (210,000)
Fast Money—236,000 viewers (24,000) (115,000)
Prime News —278,000 viewers (132,000) (185,000)
6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier – 2,172,000 viewers (474,000) (1,085,000)
Situation Room—553,000 viewers (124,000) (181,000)
Ed Show—488,000 viewers (94,000) (218,000)
Mad Money —215,000 viewers (a scratch w/38,000) (113,000)
Prime News – 254,000 viewers (81,000) (146,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The Fox Report – 1,997,000 viewers (469,000) (945,000)
CNN Tonight – 534,000 (115,000) (182,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews – 560,000 (160,000) (263,000)
Kudlow Report -- 151,000 viewers (a scratch w/31,000) (73,000)
Issues– 405,000 viewers (128,000) (225,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor – 3,362,000 viewers (894,000) (1,646,000)
Campbell Brown – 484,000 viewers (111,000) (197,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 1,068,000 viewers (249,000) (521,000)
Marijuana Inc. – 232,000 viewers (76,000) (115,000)
Nancy Grace – 826,000 viewers (258,000) (376,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity –2,369,000 viewers (692,000) (1,220,000)
Larry King Live —820,000 viewers (184,000) (301,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —915,000 viewers (208,000) (459,000)
Illegal Gambling— 239,000 viewers (97,000) (134,000)
Joy Behar- 645,000 viewers (168,000) (289,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On The Record w/ Greta —1,706,000 viewers (496,000) (802,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 921,000 viewers (232,000) (357,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 753,000 (279,000) (352,000)
Illegal Gambling -- 162,000 viewers (78,000) (102,000)
Nancy Grace –501,000 viewers (210,000) (293,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor —1,611,000 viewers (568,000) (825,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 489,000 viewers (160,000) (185,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —404,000 viewers (151,000) (163,000)
Mad Money – a scratch w/93,000 viewers (57,000) (a scratch w/51,000)
Showbiz Tonight-- 382,000 viewers (199,000) (206,000)
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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.
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I was thinking, FOX and Friends has higher numbers than all the other Primetime shows on CNN, MSNBC and HLN, with rare exception by Countdown and Nancy Grace. Considering F&F comes on 3am PST(6am EST) that is something else!
Is it the same 1 million viewers every night that watch Keith Overbite??? Is it, as I suspect, 1 million tune in once in a while during his one hour show, are off and running within 2 minutes, and then spend 10 minutes in the bathroom either barfing or fighting a bad case of die ah rea ah. If I watch him over 20 seconds, I can feel that urge coming on.
Keethy is descending further into Madness,with his “Commentary Crap”
he imagines himself to be Egbert R. Morrow Jr.
Lifelong-Bachelor-Keethy has instructed his House Maid to always
address as “Sir Egbert”. !
Countdown always has over 1 million viewers when Keith Olbermans the host.and not some fill in like O donell and David Shuster
man CNN campbell brown i mean come on only 484,000 why is she even in the primetime 8 pm slot ,,
CNN is on life support. All the talent (Lou Dobbs) is gone and know they can’t even beat the Housewives of Boise Idaho.
AC 360 can’t even get a boost in ratings from his stint on Regis and Kelly.
So sad:(
Obermun should sign on with “No Win Zone”
Obermun should sell t-shirts “I host a TV show and I just got this T-Shirt”
I could do better if I cared.
@James – KO still managed to get over 1M, but just barely. Based on his long-term ratings slide it’s only a matter of time until he is not routinely beating 1M. He could change that if he asked just one tough question of the administration each night. But I’m not holding my breath, as KO clearly stated when BO was elected that he will do everything he can to make this administration successful. Not much of a journalistic stance, that.
This is my first time commenting on this web site so I don’t know if this is going to work
Gosh if I known what my gravatar would have looked like, I wouldn’t not have commented.
I am so happy that Fox News beats out the competition, but obviously it’s not enough for them to be beat other cable stations to stop our Government from taking over our Freedoms and bankrupting the country. People will never see what scams our Government are getting away with unless it’s covered on the Big 3 networks. Why do the Progressives think the ‘Progressive way’is what our country was based on. I heard someone say, perhaps it was Howard Dean, that said it’s time to take our country back to it’s ‘Progressive’ roots. Our country wasn’t founded on Progressive ideas, the Progressive movement came from the political elite that wanted to have power over the less fortunate. The United States was not created for one group of people to have power over another. How can the Progressives be so blind? I’m also tired of people who call themselves conservative is considered the far-right of the party. There are Democrats who are conservative as well. Why don’t I hear when people refer to the Progressives as the far-left? I think the Progressives should be called “the suppresser” wing of the party. They don’t progress anything they just suppress. Anyone with me?
Big Keith totally dominated that ‘marijuana’ program (some say consuming large doses of marijuana before Countdown helps enlighten one to Big Keith/socialist logic) and Rachel dominated the ‘gambling’ program. (sleeping pills work better for her show) What forces!
FYI, some say marijuana also helps the nausea induced by Big Keith for all of you unenlighted people that just don’t get how wonderful socialism is.
Its astounding that a million people can watch Keith olbermann. A sane person could not take this raving lunatic (putting it very mildly) for more than five mins. Anyone watching him for more than that should be sent to an psyciatrist or an mental institution or maybe even the circus to watch the clown that olbermann is.
How a once great Institution like NBC allows a man who so filled with Hatred, so filled with lies, so Partisan, so UnAmerican at PRIME time
truly boggles my mind.
To think a million people watch this man….if you are one them
SHAME ON YOU!!!!!
I think the Fox ratings dominance is more a reflection of the change in the political landscape than any exceptional programs. Don’t get me wrong. I like Beck and Brett Baier. O’Reilly is ok but he has changed his style from far right to independant to help his ratings and he is a blowhard that doesn’t let his guests talk. Hannity is way too one sided and Gretta is ok. I always look forward to the guest interviews on all the shows and the guest hosts are usually terrific. But honestly I just think that there is such a huge surge in conservatism and anti-Obamaism that people just tune into Fox for some relief. Look how much better Beck’s ratings are on Fox than they were on CNN. The country is headed in the wrong direction and Fox offers us some encouragement. MSNBC is so bad and so dishonest and downright meanspirited that most people can’t stomach it. If Lou Dobbs came over to Fox his ratings would go through the roof too. I think they need to find a spot for Stossell and maybe get rid of Shep. He is the only one I can’t watch. He belongs on CNN. I would like to hear what others think about these thoughts.
Oh yeh–and the gorgeous, hot babes at Fox don’t hurt either.
The White House calls into Morning Joe Thursday to offset comments that they don’t like. Can we then assume if they don’t call in ….. they agree with what they hear. Thats like a CFO of a large company running down to the lunch room to tell an employee he does not like what he or she has to offer. No wonder !!!!!!!!!