Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for Thursday, December 13, 2012
| P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) | ||
| Total Day | ||||
| FNC | 1,281 | 256 | 536 | |
| CNN | 343 | 86 | 133 | |
| MSNBC | 559 | 162 | 263 | |
| CNBC | 186 | 51 | 102 | |
| FBN | 67 | 15 | 34 | |
| HLN | 179 | 83 | 103 | |
| Primetime | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) | |
| FNC | 2,069 | 298 | 756 | |
| CNN | 490 | 114 | 177 | |
| MSNBC | 1,160 | 329 | 557 | |
| CNBC | 260 | 115 | 135 | |
| FBN | 72 | 10 | 35 | |
| HLN | 247 | 122 | 133 | |
| Net | Morning programs (6-9 AM) | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | FOX & Friends | 1,297 | 299 | 593 |
| CNN | Early Start/Starting Point | 210 | 102 | 131 |
| MSNBC | Morning Joe | 500 | 171 | 260 |
| CNBC | Squawk Box | 134 | 37 | 90 |
| HLN | Morning Express w/ Meade | 275 | 155 | 221 |
| Net | 5PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | FIVE, THE | 2,172 | 384 | 890 |
| CNN | Situation Room | 561 | 99 | 190 |
| MSNBC | HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS | 973 | 191 | 381 |
| CNBC | FAST MONEY | 156 | 15 | 74 |
| HLN | EVENING EXPRESS | 79 | 21 | 24 |
| Net | 6PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER | 2,178 | 355 | 813 |
| CNN | Situation Room | 423 | 91 | 165 |
| MSNBC | POLITICS NATION | 754 | 180 | 302 |
| CNBC | Mad Money | 143 | 50 | 74 |
| HLN | EVENING EXPRESS | 82 | 16 | 37 |
| Net | 7PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | The Fox Report W/S.SMITH | 1,738 | 320 | 723 |
| CNN | ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT | 418 | 80 | 156 |
| MSNBC | HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS | 859 | 229 | 367 |
| CNBC | Kudlow Report | 182 | 41 | 66 |
| HLN | JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL | 183 | 56 | 82 |
| Net | 8PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | THE OREILLY FACTOR | 2,794 | 364 | 970 |
| CNN | Anderson Cooper 360 | 551 | 111 | 199 |
| MSNBC | Ed Show | 1,200 | 326 | 566 |
| CNBC | HOTEL: BEHIND MARRIOTT | 167 | 62 | 71 |
| HLN | Nancy Grace | 260 | 87 | 109 |
| Net | 9PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | Hannity | 1,855 | 266 | 721 |
| CNN | Piers Morgan Tonight | 519 | 115 | 196 |
| MSNBC | Rachel Maddow Show | 1,313 | 390 | 658 |
| CNBC | CRUISE INC. | 330 | 129 | 172 |
| HLN | WHAT WOULD YOU DO | 208 | 98 | 114 |
| Net | 10PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | ON THE RECORD W/GRETA | 1,536 | 256 | 569 |
| CNN | Anderson Cooper 360 | 401 | 117 | 136 |
| MSNBC | Last Word W/ L. ODONNELL | 967 | 272 | 446 |
| CNBC | AMERICAN GREED | 281 | 156 | 162 |
| HLN | WHAT WOULD YOU DO | 272 | 182 | 175 |
| Net | 11PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | THE OREILLY FACTOR | 1,074 | 274 | 489 |
| CNN | ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT | 256 | 75 | 73 |
| MSNBC | Ed Show | 494 | 183 | 264 |
| CNBC | Mad Money | 108 | 51 | 67 |
| HLN | SHOWBIZ TONIGHT | 199 | 130 | 143 |
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(25-54) = Adults 25-54 viewing
(35-64) = Adults 35-64 viewing
Prime Time = 8-11pm
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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.
The other thing that’s easy is for someone to think that if one other person than the shooter has a gun, it could stop it…..
“Just the idea that teachers are allowed to carry guns could be enough to deter such a situation like this.”
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Again, this makes more sense for home invasion than a rampage killing. Fear of getting shot is a deterrent for burglars and muggers, but most of these killing sprees end with the gunman either taking their own life, or committing suicide-by-cop. Fear isn’t a deterrent for insane people.
Kendall:
I may sound “cold-blooded” right now because I am. I’m incredibly emotional over this tragedy. I’m angry and I’m sad and today I’m unreasonable.
All I can think about is the idea that some young man walked into a kindergarten of 5-year-olds and wiped out the entire class of children and scarred all the other children in that school.
Yes, I feel cold-blooded right now because I am.
@ ReadBarSoup: The other thing that’s easy is for someone to think that if one other person than the shooter has a gun, it could stop it…..
That’s not easy. That’s a possibility. At least the possibility of it is better than what we had today. If you were the parent of a dead child, you’d have yearned for that “possibility.” I know I would.
I would love to think I would be able to stop someone like that but to be honest I have no idea how I would react to someone doing what this guy did
Mattew…………..You could compare someone like this guy to a suicide bomber, I don’t know what the answer is.
Bobby: None of us do. All we can do is go to the range, get comfortable with your gun, and hope that if the day comes when you’re in this situation you can be level-headed enough to stop mayhem and destruction however you can.
The idea of letting criminals know that they’re the only ones carrying a weapon just doesn’t work.
BevAg,
I wish I had an answer. I would imagine some nuts would get off if they knew others had a gun in the anticipation of some Dirty Harry shootout
Since no one will say it-MSNBC KICKS ASS AGAIN!
I think people should avoid the temptation to take situations like this and try to correlate it into some general statement about society, and guns; this doesn’t mean that we need gun control ‘more than ever,’ nor does it mean that we’re somehow in a moral decline. This is an aberration, an insane person, and this is a reflection of their insanity, not of the society they’re living in.
For perspective, the per capita homicide rate in 2011 was at the lowest level it’s been at since 1963, and that’s following a downward trend that’s been going on for more than a decade. You have to go all the way back to 1900 – 1909 to find a decade with a lower average per-capita intentional homicide rate than we had in the 2000s. I’m not saying we’re in a utopia, but clearly violent crime is trending in the right direction.
If the people in Syria could watch our news today, what would they be thinking ?
Thank you, Matthew. That at least is SOME positive news.
Bobby, I guess that can be a scenario.
I know a lot of Texans carry guns. I don’t hear about “Dirty Harry” type shootouts. And criminals know Texans carry guns. I just don’t hear of that scenario coming out of Texas.
The scenarios seem more to be where someone goes into a closed area where people are stuck and they seem to have free reign and they know it going in: Schools, theater, Virginia Tech. I’m know there’s more. But it appears they went in with the mindset that they will have total control and will keep going until they are shot, they shoot themselves or lose energy. They don’t seem to go in looking for a Dirty Harry shootout.
But anything’s possible.
True, I am just saying you never know how people like this will act.
Not to worry, Billy O’Reilly has solve the Newtown CT. mass murders. “It was evil and insanity that did it and their really isn’t anything we can do about it”,yes Billy’O we all know that. But you forgot one thing evil and insanity could not have done this without semi-automatic weapons of war. Billy O wake up, do you really fear the NRA that much, you had the nerve to criticize Bob Costas because he made his opinion know on the gun culture in the NFL, you Billy O have to explain why gun violence never entered into your bloviation. It has to be easier to eliminate semi-automatic weapons of war from our society than to identify evil and insanity before it rears its ugly head. Yes Americans have the right to bare arms but not to bare these weapons of war, their should be no need to have these weapons in this Great Country!!! Billy O you avoided the gun issue your entire BS show, never saw you look so weak and fearful, sleep well tonight Big Billy o your a real tough guy, the NRA still loves you and Murdoch does too!!!
Can’t we let the partisan hatred go for one night?
Bill O’Reilly’s show tonight was sad and informative. Bill Hammer said it right, “Evil came to Newtown today.”
Yes, Bobby, reasonable people can let partisan hatred go for one night, as we should.
UGH, Huckabee is blaming the shooting on “removing God from school”. Talk about trying to spin a horrible incident to meet your political/ethical standing.
I believe in God but admit I am not overly religious. I can’t help but think maybe He should have left mankind baking in the oven another hour, maybe we would have come out a bit better.
We need to hear more. Those teachers had to be torn. Do you leave your students to help or do you stay and protect them.
But I do have an idea. I believe there have been another times when a son of a teacher killed one or both parents then went to the school their parent taught at and killed students.
Why don’t we start requiring yearly psych testing for public school workers and their families.