Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for February 4, 2013
| P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) | ||
| Total Day | ||||
| FNC | 1,155 | 218 | 462 | |
| CNN | 413 | 137 | 178 | |
| MSNBC | 482 | 146 | 224 | |
| CNBC | 148 | 43 | 75 | |
| FBN | 46 | 9 | 25 | |
| HLN | 263 | 89 | 140 | |
| Primetime | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) | |
| FNC | 2,185 | 313 | 820 | |
| CNN | 645 | 188 | 317 | |
| MSNBC | 935 | 224 | 419 | |
| CNBC | 163 | 75 | 95 | |
| FBN | 37 | 10 | 21 | |
| HLN | 416 | 118 | 212 | |
| Net | Morning programs (6-9 AM) | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | FOX & Friends | 1,090 | 217 | 487 |
| CNN | Early Start/Starting Point | 256 | 109 | 115 |
| MSNBC | Morning Joe | 429 | 184 | 244 |
| CNBC | Squawk Box | 111 | 24 | 49 |
| HLN | Morning Express w/ Meade | 160 | 89 | 111 |
| Net | 5PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | FIVE, THE | 2,088 | 367 | 799 |
| CNN | Situation Room | 779 | 225 | 322 |
| MSNBC | HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS | 898 | 170 | 336 |
| CNBC | FAST MONEY | 197 | 56 | 97 |
| HLN | EVENING EXPRESS | 449 | 111 | 182 |
| Net | 6PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | SPECIAL RPT W/BRET BAIER | 1,909 | 295 | 737 |
| CNN | Situation Room | 509 | 185 | 271 |
| MSNBC | POLITICS NATION | 783 | 198 | 345 |
| CNBC | Mad Money | 130 | 46 | 64 |
| HLN | EVENING EXPRESS | 559 | 173 | 272 |
| Net | 7PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | The Fox Report W/S.SMITH | 1,653 | 256 | 703 |
| CNN | ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT | 555 | 175 | 257 |
| MSNBC | HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS | 875 | 203 | 404 |
| CNBC | Kudlow Report | 133 | 18 | 35 |
| HLN | JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL | 472 | 164 | 252 |
| Net | 8PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | THE OREILLY FACTOR | 3,026 | 513 | 1,228 |
| CNN | Anderson Cooper 360 | 760 | 197 | 370 |
| MSNBC | Ed Show | 942 | 192 | 416 |
| CNBC | HOTEL: BEHIND MARRIOTT | 172 | 73 | 87 |
| HLN | Nancy Grace | 482 | 148 | 239 |
| Net | 9PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | Hannity | 2,076 | 239 | 708 |
| CNN | Piers Morgan Tonight | 691 | 210 | 346 |
| MSNBC | Rachel Maddow Show | 1,148 | 291 | 498 |
| CNBC | BETTING BIG ON BROADWAY | 104 | 37 | 40 |
| HLN | Dr. Drew ON CALL | 405 | 112 | 184 |
| Net | 10PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | ON THE RECORD W/GRETA | 1,436 | 186 | 519 |
| CNN | Anderson Cooper 360 | 485 | 158 | 236 |
| MSNBC | Last Word W/ L. ODONNELL | 715 | 190 | 342 |
| CNBC | AMERICAN GREED | 202 | 102 | 139 |
| HLN | Nancy Grace | 361 | 94 | 213 |
| Net | 11PM | P2+ (000s) | 25-54 (000s) | 35-64 (000s) |
| FNC | THE OREILLY FACTOR | 1,075 | 240 | 480 |
| CNN | ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT | 308 | 145 | 142 |
| MSNBC | Ed Show | 398 | 103 | 159 |
| CNBC | Mad Money | 75 | 40 | 50 |
| HLN | SHOWBIZ TONIGHT | 287 | 101 | 192 |
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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.
Jeff,
You don’t think the lbl people don’t defend the MSNBC hosts? I have read many comments, particularly about RM and Ed when he was fighting for the unions. I do defend BO, you are right about that.
Jeff
Posted February 5, 2013 at 5:40 PM
anyone wanna share their opinion on the drone program killing without due process??
I am curious what you think about the incredible double standard the President gets over the torture deal? Think GWB would be getting destroyed over this stuff?
As far as the 25-54 demo being used for News programs, here’s a look at how things stack up:
25-54 Demo numbers for Evening News
NBC News w/Brian Williams = 2,545,000
ABC News w/Diane Sawyer = 2,188,000
CBS News w/Scott Pelley = 2,033,000
Fox News O’Reilly Factor = 513,000
Fox News The Five = 367,000
Special Report w/ Bret Baier = 295,00
MSNBC News Rachel Maddow = 291,000
Mark2,
Forgetting about the comparison part of it, I don’t know if you can assume just because the news programs lean left that their audience leans left. Has anyone checked the affiliations of these people? For all we know all the ABC watchers could be R’s, for example. I am not saying I am sure of this, just throwing it out there
Obama has done the right thing by saying it is OK and proper to kill terrorists (including American citizens)without “due process”. One has to consider all of the issues in this matter: for example, 1) clear evidence the CIA has obtained that people like Bin Laden, and the American Al Qaeda in Yemen are guilty; 2) the likelihood of extreme danger to the US and its citizens by not taking immediate action; and 3) and the likelihood that a trial would compromise top secret information as well as further expose the US and its citizens to grave danger. Obama and his team have made ANOTHER correct decision…..This is NOT analogous to interrogation by torture….
My new CNN line-up:
12PM:Newsroom(NR)
1PM:NR International
2PM:NR USA:News live from the states
3PM:NR
4PM:Newsworld:Quality show on foreign affairs anchored by Fareed or Amanpour
5PM:TSR with Wolf
6PM:A good business show like once Moneyline
7PM:A good political show
8PM:CNN 360:a new revamped newsshow
9PM:Interviews and debates
10PM:CNN’s 60 minutes or Nightline with exclusive reports and news
11PM:Piers Morgan live with an audience
Paul Broun, an extreme right wing elected offical from Georgia is making a fool out himself by accusing Obama of being a socialist. This right winger was elected by confederate holdovers from the Civil War…but in the future as these people die out and change and the demographics change, people of this ilk will be relegated to the dinosaurs they are….
@Bobby
Well according to Conservatives, NBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS are Liberal Media outlets or as they like to say “Lamestream Media”, so it doesn’t matter what the party affiliation of the viewers are. The fact that they are watching the “Liberal” Media is good enough for me. The more they watch, the better informed they will be when it comes to reality.
US,
Sorry, I refuse to believe the people who criticized GWB endlessly on torture and on closing Gitmo are now ok with blowing people up (including Americans) which I think could be construed as a bit worse than torture. Do not forget the very quiet story that Panetta said “torture” worked to get info on OBL.
Mark2,
No, I agree that is what they say, I am curious about who is actually watching.
Bobbyv
Posted February 5, 2013 at 6:16 PM
Mark2,
Forgetting about the comparison part of it, I don’t know if you can assume just because the news programs lean left that their audience leans left. Has anyone checked the affiliations of these people? For all we know all the ABC watchers could be R’s, for example. I am not saying I am sure of this, just throwing it out there
ABC, NBC CBS , are the uninformed or those that do not care. those that care are here on both sides.
“I never said news programs, I said the Top 100 Cable shows are based on the 18-49 demo.”
Given that we have to order it somehow, we order that list by adults 18-49 ratings because that’s how some of the big general interest cable networks price their ads. Other cable nets use other demos. Adults 18-49 is not, as you noted “the most important demo on TV”.
@ d.d
“Does MSNBC have programs like Bret Baier & Chris Walllace ?”
Among the shows I sampled, definitely not. Perhaps a proponent of MSNBC can offer up a few shows.
I should add that I don’t think the Bret Baier show (Special Report) and Fox News Sunday (with Chris Wallace) are unbiased.
I think they do what they accuse liberal news outlets of doing: they choose to focus on positive conservative stories or negative liberal stories and ignore or downplay positive liberal stories and negative conservative stories. They do it just as often as MSNBC.
It seems (to me, at least) that MSNBC is a little more strident in their partisanship–that is to say, they devote a bit more airtime to promoting their ideology and attacking FNC’s.
I think FNC wouldn’t be attacked as fervently if they jettisoned the “Fair & Balanced” mantra and went for something more honest. They’re a right-leaning network…they should embrace that, and come up with a new slogan. How about “Fox News: The Right Choice, Plain & Simple”. lol
Bobbyv
Posted February 5, 2013 at 6:24 PM
US,
Sorry, I refuse to believe the people who criticized GWB endlessly on torture
torture works, the Romans could make anyone talk. I am tell anything you need to know if the Romans got me. Libs would sing like no other.
Letmethink wrote: “@apple. I thought I had heard every JJ song–never heard this one. One of my favorites—me and probably one other person ????”
Was yours a link to ‘Mercedes Benz’? If so, I thought it was a great track back then, unusual in that was a release with only vocals.
‘Ball and Chain’ was composed by Big Mama Thornton. As odd as my selections for ‘Black History Month’ may have seem, all songs except for maybe two (where the focus was on the performer) were composed by black artists, either music+lyric or lyric alone. ‘Secret Love’ (Doris Day) ‘Black Coffee’ (Julie London) and ‘The Shadow of Your Smile’ (Peggy Lee), for instance, were all by Paul Francis Webster as lyricist; ‘My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It’ (Hank Williams) was by Clarence Williams; etc.
Mark2
Posted February 5, 2013 at 6:22 PM
@Bobby
Well according to Conservatives, NBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS are Liberal Media outlets or as they like to say “Lamestream Media”, so it doesn’t matter what the party affiliation of the viewers are. The fact that they are watching the “Liberal” Media is good enough for me. The more they watch, the better informed they will be when it comes to reality.
You are right. You position is better pushed by the media.
@Elenga
Here’s my line-up for CNN:
4PM – Erin Burnett Live
5PM – The Blaze w/Glenn Beck
6PM – Situation Room w/Blitzer, Malveaux, and Soledad
7PM – Lou Dobbs Tonight
8PM – Countdown w/Keith Olbermann
9PM – Piers Morgan Tonight
10PM- Anderson Cooper 360
11PM- Repeat of their highest rated Show
Regarding torture: if we know for a fact (or a high probability) that torture yields information that is FACT, then one could make a good argument for using it in situations that involve the US’s survival and the survival of its citizens. In the case of CIA information on Al Awlaki, it is presmed that this information was fact..and so , given the imminent threat to the US and its citizens, it would be OK to kill him without due process. There is, it seems to me, some difference between killing someone based on fact (with out due process) and toruring someone who may or may not give accurate information….
@Bill “Adults 18-49 is not, as you noted “the most important demo on TV.”
It is the most important demo to Advertisers. That’s why those shows with higher 18-49 demo ratings are able to command the highest prices for their 30 second commercial slots. And that doesn’t just go for Cable Netwroks, that also applies to Broadcast Networks.
US,
We probably agree more than disagree on this one. There has been debate for some time on enhanced interrogation; many said it never works but LP said it did so that was a key for for me. I am with the President on the drones.