
Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for Thursday, May 24 2012
| P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) | ||
| Total Day | ||||
| FNC | 1,110 | 281 | 506 | |
| CNN | 242 | 74 | 105 | |
| MSNBC | 411 | 116 | 170 | |
| CNBC | 163 | 43 | 94 | |
| FBN | 55 | 11 | 24 | |
| HLN | 179 | 70 | 99 | |
| Primetime | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) | |
| FNC | 1,964 | 367 | 754 | |
| CNN | 373 | 118 | 174 | |
| MSNBC | 771 | 216 | 358 | |
| CNBC | 242 | 94 | 124 | |
| FBN | 53 | 15 | 25 | |
| HLN | 305 | 72 | 142 | |
| Net | Morning programs (6-9 AM) | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | FOX & Friends | 1,051 | 290 | 549 |
| CNN | Early Start/Starting Point | 172 | 65 | 89 |
| MSNBC | Morning Joe | 406 | 147 | 208 |
| CNBC | Squawk Box | 138 | 35 | 88 |
| HLN | Morning Express w/ Meade | 219 | 138 | 151 |
| Net | 5PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | FIVE, THE | 1,379 | 310 | 567 |
| CNN | Situation Room | 411 | 87 | 143 |
| MSNBC | HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS | 644 | 110 | 202 |
| CNBC | FAST MONEY | 219 | 38 | 115 |
| HLN | HLN SPECIAL REPORT | 138 | 36 | 50 |
| Net | 6PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER | 1,618 | 344 | 665 |
| CNN | John King USA | 317 | 78 | 125 |
| MSNBC | POLITICS NATION | 647 | 147 | 233 |
| CNBC | Mad Money | 169 | 42 | 120 |
| HLN | HLN LOCAL EDITION | 188 | 48 | 84 |
| Net | 7PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | The Fox Report W/S.SMITH | 1,463 | 333 | 592 |
| CNN | ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT | 263 | 59 | 126 |
| MSNBC | HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS | 620 | 161 | 248 |
| CNBC | Kudlow Report | 116 | 19 | 58 |
| HLN | JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL | 279 | 90 | 151 |
| Net | 8PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | THE OREILLY FACTOR | 2,795 | 491 | 1,025 |
| CNN | Anderson Cooper 360 | 304 | 74 | 140 |
| MSNBC | Ed Show | 748 | 166 | 311 |
| CNBC | SUPERMARKETS INC | 186 | 45 | 103 |
| HLN | HLN LOCAL EDITION | 338 | 82 | 170 |
| Net | 9PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | Hannity | 1,755 | 372 | 722 |
| CNN | Piers Morgan Tonight | 410 | 131 | 174 |
| MSNBC | Rachel Maddow Show | 924 | 290 | 466 |
| CNBC | COSTCO CRAZE, THE | 315 | 125 | 164 |
| HLN | Dr. Drew | 273 | 64 | 118 |
| HLN | HLN LOCAL EDITION | 255 | 59 | 97 |
| Net | 10PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | ON THE RECORD W/GRETA | 1,330 | 239 | 515 |
| CNN | Anderson Cooper 360 | 403 | 147 | 207 |
| MSNBC | Last Word W/ L. ODONNELL | 642 | 193 | 295 |
| CNBC | J CREW & MAN DRSSD AMER | 225 | 113 | 106 |
| HLN | Nancy Grace | 227 | 63 | 97 |
| Net | 11PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | THE OREILLY FACTOR | 1,104 | 323 | 554 |
| CNN | ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT | 202 | 94 | 83 |
| MSNBC | Ed Show | 444 | 160 | 232 |
| CNBC | Mad Money | 111 | 67 | 73 |
| HLN | SHOWBIZ TONIGHT | 200 | 93 | 126 |
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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 July, 2011)
CNN/HLN: 101.12 million HHs
CNBC: 98.62 million HHs
FNC: 99.15 million HHs
MSNBC: 95.72 million HHs
Fox Business: 58.15 million HHs
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2012 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.










Why are CNN ratings considered SO bad? It beats CNBC, HLN, and FOX Business in all of the target demos.
Someone make a mercy rule for CNN please. Anderson cooper really, 304,000 at 8 p.m.?
Check again Nick, AC360 lost demos to HLN.
“Obama’s problem is not that his message is ‘muddled.’ The problem is his message is all too clear! This is what always does the left in.” -Rush Limbaugh
I’ll tell you, there is panic out there, folks. I’ve been telling you I don’t know how many months now, there’s real panic. There is panic over two things. The Bain attack on Romney isn’t working. And all of these Democrat consultants and all the Democrat cable TV hosts and the Democrat media people, they are beside themselves. It isn’t working. They are also very worried that Obama is doubling down on it now in the midst of it not working. He’s doubling down on it, amidst stories we’ve now got a private equity Democrat backer for Obama who’s leaving him. Rush Limbaugh
One of his primary campaign managers, the former mayor of Denver, Pena, is in private equity, big Democrat. He is buying companies and he’s laying people off. He’s doing everything Obama is accusing Romney of having done. He’s doing it as we speak. He’s a private equity guy. He runs Obama’s campaign in the West or some such thing. It’s backfiring on them left and right, and the Democrat consultants and the media people can’t believe Obama let it go. They ran into Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz and they asked her about it. She said there is no plan B. Our plan is to attack Mitt Romney as an evil capitalist when he ran Bain. There is no plan B. …Rush Limbaugh
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/05/25/left_in_panic_over_bain_attack_backfire
Forget Bain — Obama’s public-equity record is the real scandal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/forget-bain-obamas-public-equity-record-is-the-real-scandal/2012/05/24/gJQAXnXCnU_story.html
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/05/24/barack_obama_the_spending_king
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-05-18/federal-deficit-accounting/55179748/1
“If socialism was so popular, it wouldn’t have to be imposed and maintained at the point of a gun all over the world. If socialism was so popular, it wouldn’t require dictatorship to enforce it.” -Rush Limbaugh
“Given Obama’s recent speeches, maybe this Memorial Day we ought to especially remember all of our soldiers who died defending capitalism and the freedom that capitalism has brought us — all of our soldiers who have died fighting communism, all of our soldiers who have died fighting National Socialism. It’s more than just a day off.” -Rush
Hurricane Forecast Disappoints Liberals
Solar-Powered Airplane Cost $100 Million
And has three seats ad the floor and walls are covered with rubber.
@Curt
I meant with the primetime and total day averages.
@LBSLES
“Hurricane Forecast Disappoints Liberals”
This makes absolutely no sense. Who made this up?
@Mark
You are really going to ask someone who posts like he/she does a REAL question? WHAT!?!?
The Titanic has nothing on msnbc numbers. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving Waco network
Between some of LBSLES empty posts, and the fact that he occasionally posts link-less spam about completely off topic things like shrimp sales at Whole Foods and deals going on at Burger King, I’m practically convinced he’s running some kind of spam bot program part of each day.