
Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for Wednesday, October 3, 2012
| P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) | ||
| Total Day | ||||
| FNC | 2,362 | 642 | 1,069 | |
| CNN | 1,125 | 418 | 501 | |
| MSNBC | 1,134 | 407 | 540 | |
| CNBC | 198 | 66 | 103 | |
| FBN | 79 | 22 | 40 | |
| HLN | 152 | 60 | 77 | |
| Primetime | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) | |
| FNC | 8,199 | 2,160 | 3,573 | |
| CNN | 4,786 | 1,855 | 2,095 | |
| MSNBC | 3,926 | 1,488 | 1,836 | |
| CNBC | 474 | 229 | 244 | |
| FBN | 184 | 59 | 95 | |
| HLN | 183 | 75 | 106 | |
| Net | Morning programs (6-9 AM) | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | FOX & Friends | 1,190 | 355 | 661 |
| CNN | Early Start/Starting Point | 223 | 91 | 118 |
| MSNBC | Morning Joe | 592 | 246 | 328 |
| CNBC | Squawk Box | 113 | 26 | 56 |
| HLN | Morning Express w/ Meade | 211 | 119 | 158 |
| Net | 5PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | FIVE, THE | 1,912 | 454 | 764 |
| CNN | Situation Room | 535 | 143 | 257 |
| MSNBC | HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS | 1,133 | 237 | 486 |
| CNBC | FAST MONEY | 219 | 44 | 115 |
| HLN | EVENING EXPRESS | 73 | 37 | 46 |
| Net | 6PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER | 2,051 | 512 | 836 |
| CNN | Situation Room | 693 | 230 | 280 |
| MSNBC | POLITICS NATION | 1,037 | 292 | 492 |
| CNBC | Mad Money | 149 | 33 | 83 |
| HLN | EVENING EXPRESS | 155 | 65 | 65 |
| Net | 7PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | The Fox Report W/S.SMITH | 2,228 | 546 | 937 |
| CNN | DEBATE NIGHT IN AMERICA | 1,118 | 372 | 483 |
| MSNBC | HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS | 1,299 | 410 | 657 |
| CNBC | Kudlow Report | 147 | 26 | 76 |
| HLN | JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL | 239 | 89 | 105 |
| Net | 8PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | THE OREILLY FACTOR | 4,383 | 771 | 1,713 |
| CNN | DEBATE NIGHT IN AMERICA | 2,287 | 796 | 949 |
| MSNBC | MSNBC DEBATE PREVIEW | 2,278 | 749 | 1,013 |
| CNBC | YOUR MONEY YOUR VOTE | 279 | 105 | 130 |
| HLN | Nancy Grace | 284 | 108 | 148 |
| Net | 9PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE | 10,305 | 2,841 | 4,585 |
| CNN | 1ST PRES DEBATE 2012 | 5,935 | 2,303 | 2,591 |
| MSNBC | DEBATE | 4,671 | 1,873 | 2,205 |
| CNBC | YOUR MONEY YOUR VOTE | 592 | 292 | 305 |
| HLN | Dr. Drew | 135 | 55 | 76 |
| Net | 10PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE | 10,675 | 3,128 | 4,741 |
| CNN | 1ST PRES DEBATE 2012 | 6,268 | 2,502 | 2,786 |
| MSNBC | DEBATE | 4,835 | 1,835 | 2,204 |
| CNBC | YOUR MONEY YOUR VOTE | 551 | 289 | 299 |
| HLN | Nancy Grace | 130 | 63 | 95 |
| Net | 11PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | Hannity | 5,425 | 1,547 | 2,714 |
| CNN | DEBATE NIGHT IN AMERICA | 3,198 | 1,290 | 1,577 |
| MSNBC | MSNBC DEBATE ANALYSIS | 2,479 | 939 | 1,203 |
| CNBC | Mad Money | 122 | 81 | 74 |
| HLN | SHOWBIZ TONIGHT | 118 | 37 | 65 |
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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, 2012)
CNN/HLN: 99.727 million HHs
CNBC: 97.497 million HHs
FNC: 97.981 million HHs
MSNBC: 95.526 million HHs
Fox Business: 68.407 million HHs
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2012 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.










Instead of Killing Big Bird, I’d be ok just sending him to Gitmo…
A Very detailed Jobs report with new Un-Employment numbers are due out Friday, be a good day for Obama to put out another tape huh?
dave
Posted October 4, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Papa, if you are really Sicilian I am surprised you are not a supporter of our President.94% of blacks support him and he is only half black.If you check your history Sicilians have at least that much black blood and some a lot more.
You had better Google that one. southern part of Italy is mostly of North African or Mid- eastern, or as Europeans call them Asians. the North would be European.
Coffee Steve
Send Big Bird to fox, not cable
Posted October 4, 2012 at 2:12 PM
Looks like someone is impersonating me.Obama told the truth last night and Romney lied his a-s off.What a low life scum Romney is.
what did he lie about dave, specifics, not hyperbole and name calling or is that all you liberals have!!
Sam
If you break that down, it works out to over $50 million a year “Sesame Street” is taking in from all that merchandising.
Yep, that one-percenter Big Bird makes about four times what Mitt Romney does annually and yet Barack Obama still wants you and I to still carry his freight
I guess that’s Obama’s idea of “economic patriotism.”
Poor Chris Mathews, he was hoping for another tingle up his leg but got a kick in the crotch instead.
@ Doug Z,
“Shows like Sesame Street are multi-million dollar enterprises capable of thriving in the private market”
So you want to hand it to another big corporation so they can juice our kids brains to make more profits ?
Lets just change the Muppets names, Big Bird will become Goldman Sachs , Cookie Monster will become Bank of America and Elmo will be AT&T…
@Doug Z
From Sam
Lets just change the Muppets names, Big Bird will become Goldman Sachs , Cookie Monster will become Bank of America and Elmo will be AT&T
Sorry Doug, but that was as witty and great comeback I have seen LOL, Kudo’s to Sam
Besides that whatever Big Bird cost the government at least he’s effective and beneficial to the society.
Romney’s solution to balance to budget is cut benefits to the average Joe and poor people such as Big Bird. But he won’t dare to cut the cost of the wars and bombs, won’t dare to tax millionaires and billionaires, won’t cut the subsidies to oil companies…
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dave
The liberal dave, I am half Sicilian and yes the Moors invaded Sicily and forced the locals to mate.
I learned that from a movie not the history channel. I am also half Polish it is very confusing.
Are we talking about Big Bird? What’s next that evil Romney will want to paint Barney green.
liberal Dave, how racist of you!!!
Sam, how occupy wall street of you. Those evil corporations will turn Big Bird into Gordon Gecko. That is pretty lame.
Sam he will cut the subsidies to Solyndra etc which is a whole lot more than cutting oil subsidies. Oh yeah and we do get oil and gas from those companies as compared to what we got from Solyndra, Fisker etc. I don’t think these companies were very beneficial to society like Big Bird.
Sam
Posted October 4, 2012 at 4:18 PM
@ Doug Z,
“Shows like Sesame Street are multi-million dollar enterprises capable of thriving in the private market”
So you want to hand it to another big corporation so they can juice our kids brains to make more profits ?
Lets just change the Muppets names, Big Bird will become Goldman Sachs , Cookie Monster will become Bank of America and Elmo will be AT&T…
change it to GE ,NBC, MSMBC or the CEO of GE the BHO adviser. BHO will make sure his friend ,CEO of GE gets Gov money and they can brain wash the kids together. Oh, They are now, with BHO money.
Coffee, you really think that was a clever post. Sounded like a lot of the crap we heard from hippies in the 60′s. Ridiculous comparison and hyperbole and made little sense. Disagree with you on this one buddy. It was just old OWS rhetoric.
Still like you though Sam and am looking forward to being part of the entourage, its just I have heard junk like this a million times. Not original.I thought it was a little beneath you. Just my opinion.
Sam $900 billion to his green friends that can not make money.
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DB
90 billion in subsides ugh that is a lot of money even to liberals. Let Obama bring up the auto bailout. They have a 30 billion dollar loan they can’t pay back to the government. I would like another 60 million people to know that.
Sicilian Papa
Romney will want to paint Barney green. He is already green money machine.
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Doug Z, DB
They are actually trying to make Big Bird the issue of the debate.