Tuesday Cable Ratings: CNN Election Coverage Dominates Night + 'Sons of Anarchy', 'The Daily Show', 'The Colbert Report' & More

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1. Mark Wilkins

   Posted November 7, 2012 at 1:53 PM

   lol more people watched the concession speech over the acceptance speeh

2. CrimTV

   Posted November 7, 2012 at 2:11 PM

   WOW the election is really young skewing and it does well in 18-49, a 4.9 for 10.8 million viewers!

3. Survivor Fan

   Posted November 7, 2012 at 2:12 PM

   I watched the election on FOX News. It is the only network that I can stand listening to (though, I recognize its bias).

4. miles silverberg

   Posted November 7, 2012 at 2:22 PM

   I’m glad to see people still leave their partisan networks and go to CNN for the “event” news cycles. It shows me we haven’t gone completely off the boil as a nation, and we might have a few brain cells left after all.

5. Meanie

   Posted November 7, 2012 at 2:33 PM

   Everyone watched to see Romney finally words to this country.

   CNN numbers are better than most broadcast numbers for coverage. The age of cable begins lol

6. Martin

   Posted November 7, 2012 at 2:35 PM

   Someone tell me again why Covert Affairs was renewed? – ratings weren’t that great last week either.

7. jT

   Posted November 7, 2012 at 2:54 PM

   @martin because you don’t need great ratings to get renewals.

   Covert affairs does good in the ratings…

8. Ram510

   Posted November 7, 2012 at 2:58 PM

   Smackdown did well considering the circumstances. Better than Friday. They should just officially move it to Tuesday and continue with the live shows

9. Mark3

   Posted November 7, 2012 at 2:59 PM

   More people watched romney:) because people are tired of the same ol lies from obama! Cant wait for the whole libya cover up to comeout. And hey obama. Why dont you go to staten island. People r dying over there!!!! Worthless prez!

10. Kyle R

    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:07 PM

    More people watched Romney’s speech cause it was like 45 minutes/an hour earlier. Really guys, think about it.

11. Kaylie

    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:07 PM

    I like how this does not stop TBBT ratings. lol

12. Joe

    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:10 PM

    wow nice work CNN

13. Carl

    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:12 PM

    I’m a little confused by this disclaimer:

    “We only receive the top 100 cable shows for adults 25-54 for the whole day from our primary source, if you don’t see your show it was not in that top 100 list.”

    If that is true, how are you getting the 18-49 numbers?

14. Man

    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:21 PM

    Good for ink master and tattoo nightmares! Spike rocks!

15. Joe

    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:22 PM

    @Mark 3

    Talk about someone who is delusional. Romney is the biggest liar/flip flopper of all time for any politician. If they are tired of his so called “lies”, then why did Obama destroy Romney. And I mean Romney got a beating. Maybe it’s time you stopped watching Fox News and started watching CNN, PBS or one of the broadcast networks.

16. Rachael

    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:37 PM

    Yikes I expected Covert Affairs to take a ratings hit last night from election coverage, but I didn’t expect it to be THAT big. I wonder if they’ll make that up in DVR and later airings. On the west coast, the speeches from Romney and Obama happened right at the same time CA was on … bad timing there.

17. bsp

    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:46 PM

    I was stunned that USA aired a new ep of Covert Affairs on election night — what chance did it have? I HOPE that USA would take that into consideration when evaluating the numbers. I DVR’d the show and watched it today.

18. Mr Mikey

    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:54 PM

    Great for CNN they’ve become my place to go for news coverage.
    @Ram510
    What are you talking about Smackdown usually does 2.8 or 2.9,million viewers on Friday.

19. maider

    Posted November 7, 2012 at 3:57 PM

    Covert Affairs is so boring, I wonder why it was renewed

20. Leondre

    Posted November 7, 2012 at 4:05 PM

    The concession speech likely got more viewers because it came on when more people were awake.