Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for December 24, 2009
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 864,000 viewers
CNN – 428,000 viewers
MSNBC –279,000 viewers
CNBC – 173,000 viewers
HLN –253,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 947,000 viewers
CNN – 497,000 viewers
MSNBC –346,000 viewers
CNBC – 129,000 viewers
HLN –371,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC –224,000 viewers
CNN –128,000 viewers
MSNBC –81,000 viewers
CNBC – 62,000 viewers
HLN- 103,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 218,000 viewers
CNN – 139,000 viewers
MSNBC –121,000 viewers
CNBC – 61,000 viewers
HLN – 103,000 viewers
35-64 Total Day
FNC – 393,000 viewers
CNN – 205,000 viewers
MSNBC – 131,000 viewers
CNBC – 87,000 viewers
HLN - 133,000 viewers
35-64 Prime Time
FNC –326,000 viewers
CNN – 213,000 viewers
MSNBC –148,000 viewers
CNBC – 68,000 viewers
HLN –134,000 viewers
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 914,000 viewers (262,000) (465,000)
American Morning- 334,000 viewers (140,000) (200,000)
Morning Joe- 311,000 viewers (58,000) (155,000)
Squawk Box- 144,000 viewers (45,000) (87,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 300,000 viewers (149,000) (213,000)
5PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck Special – 1,163,000 viewers (268,000) (512,000)
Situation Room—517,000 viewers (104,000) (220,000)
MSNBC Special—169,000 viewers (a scratch w/49,000) (80,000)
Coca-Cola: The Real Story—179,000 viewers (84,000) (86,000)
Prime News —201,000 viewers (71,000) (86,000)
6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier Special – 1,058,000 viewers (252,000) (455,000)
Situation Room—406,000 viewers (77,000) (144,000)
MSNBC Special—164,000 viewers (a scratch w/46,000) (69,000)
New Age of Wal-Mart —125,000 viewers (72,000) (73,000)
Prime News – 218,000 viewers (86,000) (109,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The Fox Report W/ Shep – 1,075,000 viewers (307,000) (443,000)
SR/Best & Worst of 2009 – 458,000 (136,000) (209,000)
MSNBC Special – 260,000 (65,000) (90,000)
Illegal Gambling – a scratch w/88,000 viewers (a scratch w/ 44,000) (55,000)
Issues– 294,000 viewers (91,000) (130,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Fox & Friends Christmas Special – 1,056,000 viewers (245,000) (393,000)
Future Fast Forward – 456,000 viewers (105,000) (208,000)
MSNBC Special – 401,000 viewers (97,000) (120,000)
Inside the Mind of Google – a scratch w/103,000 viewers (a scratch w/53,000) (65,000)
Nancy Grace – 479,000 viewers (137,000) (182,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Fox & Friends Christmas Special – 1,085,000 viewers (252,000) (370,000)
Larry King Live —610,000 viewers (176,000) (249,000)
MSNBC Special —325,000 viewers (119,000) (146,000)
Buffett and Gates— a scratch w/117,000 viewers (a scratch w/48,000) (60,000)
Joy Behar- 412,000 viewers (100,000) (132,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Rejoice —701,000 viewers (159,000) (215,000)
CNN Presents — 423,000 viewers (137,000) (183,000)
MSNBC Special – 312,000 (145,000) (177,000)
Oprah Effect -- 167,000 viewers (82,000) (79,000)
Nancy Grace –254,000 viewers (79,000) (98,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Fox & Friends Christmas Special —506,000 viewers (107,000) (193,000)
CNN Presents — 380,000 viewers (128,000) (191,000)
MSNBC Special —327,000 viewers (151,000) (168,000)
Coca-Cola: The Real Story – 183,000 viewers (83,000) (105,000)
Showbiz Tonight-- 201,000 viewers (92,000) (107,000)
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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 December, 2009)
CNN/HLN: 100.22 million HHs
CNBC: 97.59 million HHs
FNC: 98.04 million HHs
MSNBC: 93.0 million HHs
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
We did watch quite a lot of the Fox and Friends Christmas Special
It was really a great program all day.
Certainly nothing that you could find on any other channel because they talked about….. Christmas! you know, Jesus’s birth! shocking
One show that was especially wonderful was Huckabee. He had a segment of different Choirs around the US singing wonderful, absolutely lovely Christmas carols and songs.
Wow. Thats nice- good for FOX. btw where are all the liberals to belittle the true meaning of Christmas?
There is a great contrast between FOX news and the FOX network!
Here’s one!! Scary that many people fall for the rights stupidity. Wake up people!!
FNC viewers watched ‘Fox & Friends Christmas Special’, nice to see Andrea Bocelli, Amy Grant, the happy little faces in the Watoto Children’s Choir from Uganda, and the other peformers.
MSNBC viewers were treated to murders and pedophiles.
CNN viewers don’t remember what they saw; CNN could have put on a looping video of a fireplace burning and it would have made no difference to the same number of people as usual.
AppleStinx: you are absolutely right!
Tks: 2010 will be a wake up call for the VERY FEW REMAINING people that call themselves progressives. LOL
Conservatives watch a lot of television. Looks like life is boring in “the real ” America.
Wow Jason that is really an astute observation on conservatives. Could it be liberals dont watch as much TV because Mao_Bama hasnt figured out a free TV giveaway for Liberals yet. Then he will need to find away to pay their electric bills also…because we all know Liberals are mindless drones who will blindly follow der leader over a cliff.
Well said DGL !
Not to ruin everybody’s party but, the liberal cable news networks combined do still draw more viewers than the one conservative station. Though not by much. The current trend is certainly leaning towards the conservative FOX however.
All you people that watch FOX News are kool-aid drinkers for the right, all the people that watch MSNBC are kool aid drinkers for the left. Everyone wake up and realize that both parties work together and arwe working for the destruction of America.
JM, your saying you don’t like either parites?
@JM:
You’re so right. I watch Glenn Beck and O’Reilly because Rush Limbaugh told me to, and secretly, they want to destroy our country, one viewer at a time. LOL
Glenn Beck has turned you all into sign carrying, blame America first liberals. Oh, how easy it was to get you to hate the AMERICAN Government; the AMERICAN media; the AMERICAN states of California, New York and the rest of the coastal states; and our AMERICAN electoral system. Congress is composed of representatives from every area of this great AMERICAN country; if you dont like them, you dont like the AMERICAN people who put them there. There are conservative countries where your guy will always “win”, where you would fit in. One of them is called Iran.
When will Glenn Beck get behind and support our President, just like we did on 9-12? sarcasm
@Blind Leader
If you think Glenn Beck is turning people into liberals and Iran is a beacon of conservatism then I think you need to either look up the definitions of liberal and conservative or do some research on Glenn Beck and Iran.
Please tell me that post was some attempt at sarcasm…
I didnt think so at first, but maybe Glenn IS a libral. Check this out from his own archives where he supports handouts and elitist behavior. I’m not blindly following him like Obama fans blindly follow.
http://archive.glennbeck.com/news/06062003.shtml
Tex hex, AKA Blind leader:
What exactly is your agenda?
By the way, it’s LIBERAL.