Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for August 6, 2012
| P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) | ||
| Total Day | ||||
| FNC | 1,082 | 245 | 482 | |
| CNN | 338 | 90 | 137 | |
| MSNBC | 542 | 198 | 240 | |
| CNBC | 225 | 87 | 112 | |
| FBN | 59 | 14 | 26 | |
| HLN | 212 | 83 | 125 | |
| Primetime | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) | |
| FNC | 2,002 | 378 | 821 | |
| CNN | 402 | 112 | 183 | |
| MSNBC | 911 | 267 | 397 | |
| CNBC | 230 | 133 | 151 | |
| FBN | 44 | 24 | 30 | |
| HLN | 288 | 104 | 166 | |
| Net | Morning programs (6-9 AM) | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | FOX & Friends | 976 | 272 | 505 |
| CNN | Early Start/Starting Point | 249 | 85 | 106 |
| MSNBC | Morning Joe | 360 | 137 | 198 |
| CNBC | Squawk Box | 159 | 65 | 59 |
| HLN | Morning Express w/ Meade | 212 | 110 | 155 |
| Net | 5PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | FIVE, THE | 1,569 | 282 | 576 |
| CNN | Situation Room | 610 | 93 | 214 |
| MSNBC | S OLY PM | 1,345 | 604 | 612 |
| CNBC | S OLY PM | 211 | 90 | 118 |
| HLN | EVENING EXPRESS | 182 | 75 | 94 |
| Net | 6PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER | 1,587 | 292 | 592 |
| CNN | Situation Room | 393 | 108 | 137 |
| MSNBC | POLITICS NATION | 684 | 198 | 279 |
| CNBC | S OLY PM | 651 | 248 | 336 |
| HLN | EVENING EXPRESS | 150 | 45 | 80 |
| Net | 7PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | The Fox Report W/S.SMITH | 1,613 | 393 | 740 |
| CNN | ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT | 270 | 92 | 121 |
| MSNBC | HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS | 984 | 261 | 388 |
| CNBC | S OLY PM | 661 | 268 | 385 |
| HLN | JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL | 285 | 102 | 185 |
| Net | 8PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | THE OREILLY FACTOR | 2,649 | 529 | 1,084 |
| CNN | Anderson Cooper 360 | 400 | 102 | 182 |
| MSNBC | Ed Show | 908 | 248 | 392 |
| CNBC | BMW: A DRIVING OBSESSION | 183 | 91 | 98 |
| HLN | Nancy Grace | 274 | 65 | 153 |
| Net | 9PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | Hannity | 1,958 | 365 | 814 |
| CNN | Piers Morgan Tonight | 449 | 131 | 199 |
| MSNBC | Rachel Maddow Show | 1,040 | 303 | 433 |
| CNBC | AMERICAN GREED | 166 | 89 | 130 |
| HLN | Dr. Drew | 285 | 122 | 149 |
| Net | 10PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | ON THE RECORD W/GRETA | 1,379 | 241 | 559 |
| CNN | Anderson Cooper 360 | 357 | 104 | 168 |
| MSNBC | Last Word W/ L. ODONNELL | 785 | 250 | 366 |
| CNBC | AMERICAN GREED | 238 | 171 | 179 |
| HLN | Nancy Grace | 305 | 126 | 195 |
| Net | 11PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | THE OREILLY FACTOR | 1,043 | 255 | 492 |
| CNN | ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT | 227 | 83 | 121 |
| MSNBC | Ed Show | 478 | 155 | 221 |
| CNBC | Mad Money | 124 | 95 | 101 |
| HLN | SHOWBIZ TONIGHT | 163 | 45 | 68 |
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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 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.
yay im first well good bye
Wow, O’Donnell won the 25-54 demo last night. And he was off. Alex Wagner filled in for him. Was Greta off last night?
“Mitt Romney murdering a guy’s wife. That’s the latest Obama ad. It’s been tested among Democrat focus groups to work like a charm. Mitt Romney, Republican presidential nominee, wants guys’ wives to die.” -Rush Limbaugh
Obama Tells a Tale of ‘Romney Hood’
President Obama has been looking for new ways to keep pressing the same attack on Mitt Romney’s tax plan, and on Monday, he coined a phrase he hopes will stick: “Romney Hood.”
Ever since a study came out last week suggesting that Mr. Romney’s plan would result in tax increases, not cuts, for the middle class, Mr. Obama has been touting it at every campaign stop. In effect, he argues, Mr. Romney wants to take from the middle class to give more tax cuts to the rich.
“It’s like Robin Hood in reverse – it’s Romney Hood,” Mr. Obama told supporters at a fund-raiser in Stamford, Conn.
Mr. Obama has hammered away at the tax study in the hope of taking ownership of an issue that has long bedeviled Democrats even as he presses Congress to let taxes rise for income over $250,000 a year.
The Romney campaign has disputed the study, by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, calling it flawed and biased. The study was based on assumptions about how Mr. Romney would meet his stated tax-cutting goals while not increasing the deficit since he has not filled in all the details himself.
“President Obama recently said the biggest regret of his first term was not telling better stories,” said Ryan Williams, a Romney campaign spokesman. “He’s trying to make up for it now, but his stories just aren’t true. There’s only one candidate in this race who’s going to raise taxes on the American people, and that’s Barack Obama.”
The president’s appearance in Stamford before an expected audience of 500 paying $500 each will be followed later in the evening by a more exclusive dinner at a private home in Westport for 60 donors who paid $35,800 apiece.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/obama-tells-a-tale-of-romney-hood/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Joke of a political ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj70XqOxptU&feature=player_embedded#t=0s
Woman mentioned in Priorities ad died in ’06
The pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action lobbed a heavy-duty attack at Mitt Romney this morning, airing an ad that links the closure of a GST Steel plant in Kansas City to the loss of a family’s health insurance — and the death of a woman some time later.
The man speaking in the ad, Joe Soptic, says, “Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my health care and my family lost their health care. And a short time after that my wife became ill.” Soptic explains he’s not exactly sure when his wife became sick, but that when he took her to the hospital she had undetected, advanced cancer and died 22 days later.
The Romney campaign has pushed back on other GST Steel-related attacks by arguing that the plant in Kansas City closed after he stepped away from his management job at Bain. (Democrats counter that Romney was still listed as a top executive at Bain through 2002, and that he built up the private equity firm during the time it invested in GST Steel.)
In the case of this particularly jarring super PAC ad, it may also be relevant that Soptic’s wife died in 2006, years after the GST factory closed down.
OBAMA: ROMNEY WANTS VP PETRAEUS
Tue Aug 07 2012 12:01:02 ET
**Exclusive**
President Obama whispered to a top fundraiser this week that he believes GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney wants to name Gen. David Petraeus to the VP slot!
“The president wasn’t joking,” the insider explains to the DRUDGE REPORT.
A Petraeus drama has been quietly building behind the scenes.
Romney is believed to have secretly met with the four-star general in New Hampshire.
The pick could be a shrewd Romney choice. A cross-party pull. The Obama administration hailed Petraeus as one of history’s greatest military strategists. Petraeus was unanimously confirmed as the Director of the CIA by the US Senate 94-0.
But Petraeus has categorically asserted that he has NO political ambitions. And Team Obama stands prepared to tie one of their own to “Bush wars.” A Petraeus pick could been seen as simply shuffling the decks of power in DC.
“He’s a serious man, for seriously dangerous times,” notes a top Republican.
A DRUDGE POLL on Tuesday morning showed readers split on if Romney should give it a go.
And the calendar is running out of days.
Developing…
CNN is truly dying a slow death, the olympics took a small bite from Fox and MSNBC but CNN is almost not even worthy of their numbers being posted. They are just plain awful
@lbsles
GenerL Petraeus would be an excellent choice
“Mitt Romney is not just a felon now, he’s a murderer! We have a campaign message here that’s basically: ‘Republicans commit murder, poison the water, poison the air, and starve kids!’ The Democrats have been doing this stuff for as long as I’m alive so it must work.” -Rush
“How would have Obama helped this unemployed guy, Mr. Soptic, who didn’t have insurance after Bain closed his company when Romney was no longer there? He would have been fined! Under Obamacare, Mr. Soptic here would be fined for not having health insurance.” -Rush
@ Coffee Steve
“Generl Petraeus would be an excellent choice”. If for no other reason then to lock up the vote from the military and anyone ever connected to someone that has served in the military.
Voters in Detroit Turned Away For Refusing To Fill In Citizenship Box On Ballot…
Polls open late after official oversleeps…
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/08/07/voters-turned-away-as-citizenship-box-creates-confusion-at-the-polls/
Botton line on Gen. Petraeus is that he is a top notch person.
Coffee Steve,
Yep, those CNN numbers are awful. They explain it away as the Olympics but the others seem to be doing ok. They thought sending two primetime anchors to cover Sikh shooting would give them the breaking news bump. Whoops, it looked more like exploitation.
@lbsles
I think Romney already has the military vote already locked up, but if Romney picks the General, then you’ll see the military flaws of this adminsitration be forefront. Pkus when you hear about Obama getting Bin, you’ll see how the General won the Iraq war with his strategy.
Not to mention they won’t be able to tie Petraeus to Bush much since Petraeus did not really think to highly of Bush.
It also could make the election more interesting and take a more serious tone as well. And Petraeus sure has the leadership experience they could never knock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hfLsSg9wZlE#t=0s
@Former CNN Fan
And it’s a shame too, I so much enjoyed CNN for the longest time, they used to do news so right. And even the commentary shows were good and balanced at one time.
Media Tries to Bring Reid’s Lie to Life
RUSH: Okay. Mitt Romney paid three-and-a-half million dollars in taxes last year. Mitt Romney paid $4.7 million in taxes in 2010. So if you add that up, you get $8.2 million in taxes Romney has paid in the past two years. Is that what the Democrats call not paying your taxes? So $8.2 million in federal taxes the last two years. I kid you not. US News & World Report has just posted the following link. “Here’s How Mitt Romney Might Have Paid No Taxes.” They’ve had somebody on their staff look at a whole bunch of hypotheticals and come up with a way that a guy like Romney might not have paid any taxes. I don’t know if this is for ten years or what, but they’ve actually done it. So a lie has come to life in the left-wing media. It is said, by the way, that Romney paid 42% of his 2011 income in taxes and charity. Let’s see Dingy Harry’s. Let’s see his returns so that we can compare.
It’s like Robin Hood in reverse – it’s Romney Hood,” Mr. Obama told supporters at a fund-raiser in Stamford, Conn.
Isn’t that Dennis Moore from Monty Python? He steals from the poor and gives the rich…stupid……Dennis Moore.
What a bunch of dummies, don’t know their Python…or much else either.