Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for Thursday, November 8, 2012
| P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) | ||
| Total Day | ||||
| FNC | 1,318 | 300 | 529 | |
| CNN | 518 | 163 | 237 | |
| MSNBC | 949 | 316 | 477 | |
| CNBC | 175 | 44 | 98 | |
| FBN | 76 | 18 | 35 | |
| HLN | 195 | 78 | 106 | |
| Primetime | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) | |
| FNC | 2,026 | 418 | 775 | |
| CNN | 766 | 244 | 375 | |
| MSNBC | 1,701 | 514 | 832 | |
| CNBC | 193 | 80 | 113 | |
| FBN | 86 | 14 | 32 | |
| HLN | 276 | 99 | 132 | |
| Net | Morning programs (6-9 AM) | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | FOX & Friends | 1,317 | 304 | 601 |
| CNN | Early Start/Starting Point | 365 | 151 | 206 |
| MSNBC | Morning Joe | 847 | 331 | 467 |
| CNBC | Squawk Box | 142 | 31 | 90 |
| HLN | Morning Express w/ Meade | 208 | 124 | 157 |
| Net | 5PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | FIVE, THE | 2,153 | 458 | 788 |
| CNN | Situation Room | 632 | 162 | 221 |
| MSNBC | HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS | 1,520 | 388 | 684 |
| CNBC | FAST MONEY | 241 | 32 | 133 |
| HLN | EVENING EXPRESS | 155 | 41 | 84 |
| Net | 6PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER | 2,395 | 334 | 740 |
| CNN | Situation Room | 676 | 224 | 282 |
| MSNBC | POLITICS NATION | 1,399 | 445 | 680 |
| CNBC | Mad Money | 167 | 67 | 101 |
| HLN | EVENING EXPRESS | 210 | 59 | 101 |
| Net | 7PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | The Fox Report W/S.SMITH | 2,015 | 388 | 727 |
| CNN | ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT | 680 | 204 | 337 |
| MSNBC | HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS | 1,380 | 453 | 677 |
| CNBC | Kudlow Report | 166 | 45 | 75 |
| HLN | JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL | 259 | 96 | 103 |
| Net | 8PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | THE OREILLY FACTOR | 2,494 | 553 | 915 |
| CNN | Anderson Cooper 360 | 805 | 240 | 373 |
| MSNBC | Ed Show | 1,736 | 476 | 794 |
| CNBC | MADOFF BEHIND BARS | 204 | 72 | 102 |
| HLN | Nancy Grace | 281 | 91 | 129 |
| Net | 9PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | Hannity | 1,836 | 325 | 664 |
| CNN | Piers Morgan Tonight | 870 | 247 | 419 |
| MSNBC | Rachel Maddow Show | 1,809 | 568 | 924 |
| CNBC | UNRAVELED | 188 | 83 | 122 |
| HLN | WHAT WOULD YOU DO | 319 | 117 | 159 |
| Net | 10PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | ON THE RECORD W/GRETA | 1,729 | 377 | 744 |
| CNN | Anderson Cooper 360 | 624 | 246 | 332 |
| MSNBC | Last Word W/ L. ODONNELL | 1,558 | 499 | 778 |
| CNBC | AMERICAN GREED | 162 | 72 | 93 |
| CNBC | UNRAVELED | 211 | 96 | 140 |
| HLN | WHAT WOULD YOU DO | 226 | 89 | 106 |
| Net | 11PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | THE OREILLY FACTOR | 1,158 | 348 | 562 |
| CNN | ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT | 394 | 124 | 197 |
| MSNBC | Ed Show | 1,045 | 357 | 568 |
| CNBC | Mad Money | 125 | 75 | 96 |
| HLN | SHOWBIZ TONIGHT | 139 | 55 | 75 |
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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.
Whoa, FNC lost in prime AND total day demo!
MJ actually beat the clowns on F&F in the demo!
Holy smokes, Al Sharpton beat Bret Baier AGAIN….ouch!!! LOL!!!
Impressive, but almost certainly temporary.
CNN has completely lost their election day bounce. Wow, they landed with a thud.
CNN and MSNBC seem to be enjoying a post election bounce while the opposite is true for FOX. I wonder how long, if at all, MSNBC can keep their additional audience? While they will definately taper off as the post election season kicks in, they might very well have found additional viewers who tuned in for the election.
Neil Cavuto has a small business owner on speaking about how his business income flows through to personal tax returns, (As so many small businesses do, Mom and Pop businesses included). If his company makes $500K that income flows to his 1040. That $500K is not in his pocket it is back in his business and now he needs to take money from his business to make up for the increase in taxes. Therefore there is less left in his company to pay for new hires, benefits, raises etc. When will the Democrats get it through their highly educated thick skulls that there are more “small businesses” that make $250K, than they realizes. We are not all Donald Trump like they like to spout about. Along with leadership classes maybe Mr. O should take a business management class too. He has time, campaign season is over.
WOW Lawrence ODonnell kicked Greta’s a$$!!!
WOW Sean Hannity must of lost credibility so people tuned into Rachel. Rachel kicked Hannity’s a$$!!!
Well well.. MSNBC still kicking it even after the election. Tthat is awesome.. Dems are pumped while republicans are fox news out lol.. That is awesome.. I think Fox news viewer and angry with the channel lol…
Holy Smokes! The Reverend Al Sharpton blew away Bret Baier!!!
Let’s be real .. Fox News out their viewers in a fantasy world… I think they are coming out of it.. come on.. come out of the Fox News Coma lol
Morning Joe destroyed Fox & Friends! Seems people wanted to hear to some intelligent morning discussion versus the silly babble out of Fox & Fools.
WOW!!! FNC got their ass kicked…for the first time I can remember!!! And, I can’t chalk it up to “the day after” viewer curiosity.
The demo stats almost gave me a heart attack. It’s like coming face-to-face with Bigfoot. Older viewers seem to stick with FNC. But, the younger demo seems to have jumped ship.
Does anyone have the inside scoop on any of this?
Looks like Ed is the only one who can’t win in the key Demo against O’Reilly. I give this until Dec. before things balance back. Then I expect MSNBC to rise in ratings again in January for the inauguration.
@ Apple
“It’s different when we’re talking about Intelligence and any remote chance that sensitive material could be compromised via blackmail. One single skeleton in the closet is a no-no, even as it’s now out.”
I totally see your point but in today’s world I would think if he was “out” about the affair then he might not be an intelligence liability but then there might be more to the affair story. It just seems in this day and age when we survived a cheating Commander In Chief we could survive a cheating CIA chief.
I will say historically being (openly) gay was both a reason for court martial from the armed services and a reason to preclude one from work in the intelligence services but as attitudes have evolved this reasoning went out the window and gay men and women now serve in both openly and honorably.
I know you were not arguing that he should not be able to serve just the reason for it and it does make sense.
Perhaps the Fox News audience feels hoodwinked for the moment?
I think like the drug Fox News is, similar to a soap opera they will be tuned back in to get story-book like news stories.
^^^^^Refrains from cheering about MSNBC’s ratings as they are temporary and also because of general dislike for the channel save Dr. Maddow.
Tama, I think the liberals helped Bill-O out. They want to see him squirm and hear his extreme excuses why the majority Americans are moving away from his 1950′s vision of America.
If Bill-O wasn’t on last night, they (neo-cins) wanted to hear Laura talk about Benghazi conspiracy theories to their minds off getting their a$$es kicked on Election Day.
Jeff, If that was true then Hannity would also have a bump. However Hannity has slipped in his ratings.