Red Eye Celebrates Third Year By Topping CNN Prime Time Last Week
MSNBC’s David Shuster became a fan of Fox News’ late-night comedy/news hybrid Red Eye just in time for its three-year anniversary.
And it’s coming at a time when the 3amET show is seeing big ratings in the A25-54 demographic – even topping CNN prime time last week.
Just like when we highlighted the show’s ratings in September 2009 (which the FNC advertising department enjoyed as well, taking out full-page ads in the New York Post and others), the ratings for last week show Red Eye beating CNN again. This time, the show had better ratings in the A25-54 demographic than Campbell Brown at 8pmET and Larry King at 9pmET, and tied Anderson Cooper at 10pmET (Monday-Thursday).
For Friday’s third-anniversary show, there was a look back at the past few years, including the second episode – which was…fairly raw. And featured an unkempt, pre-Big-Everything Andrew Breitbart.
“I want to thank our awesomely awesome fans for watching and supporting us over the last three years,” said Gutfeld. “And if you didn’t support us, you’re worse than Media Matters.”
Here’s the Greg-alogue from Friday night, featuring David Gregory’s hair, a lot of cat jokes aimed at Andy Levy and insults aimed at Bill Schulz. And more robots:
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> Update on Tuesday: With the full Monday-Friday ratings, Red Eye topped all programs on CNN in prime time, including AC:360.
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30 comments
Red Eye is amazing.
AikidoJoe says: It is a great show. I DVR it every night. 0300 is just way to early to watch that show in Virginia.
germ says: It’s on at Midnight here in Seattle. If I am still up, I try to catch it.
jazzman2go says: if Keith Olbertool was a republican he would be fired for what he says
Azarkhan says: Sorry liberals, but you know everyone has stopped listening to your lies when Red Eye beats CNN’s primetime lineup. Red Eye is great, and older episodes are on Hulu.
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater says: I’ll bring the lotion!
ChrisG says: Could you show the actual numbers for Red Eye last week? The CNN numbers are easy to find, but not the Red Eye numbers.
NYC_Hero says: Yes, and a lot more people also read books with big colorful pictures and easy to read words. A lot more people also watch WWE Wrestling than Real Olympic Wrestling.
Azarkhan says: “Real Olympic Wrestling”? OK, I’ll take WWE’s Jillian over some sweaty Bulgarian wrestler anyday of the week, and twice on Sunday.
NYC_Hero says: exactly my point. fox is entertainment. cnn is news.
Moderate says: CNN spent millions promoting Anderson Cooper while Red Eye is put together on a shoe string budget. This is just plain embarrassing.
SenorSlater says: FOX is NEWS that’s also ENTERTAINING. You can’t dispute their news. FOX is FAR more accurate than MSNBC…but of course liberals give them a pass.
Azarkhan says: Hey NYC_Hero,
If you got a thing for sweaty Bulgarian wrestlers, go right ahead. I know, sometimes you just gots to get you some man!
Azarkhan says: Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Hey Chris-
Here are the averages in the A25-54 demo Monday-Thursday last week: Red Eye- 165,000, AC – 165,000, Larry King 157,000, Campbell Brown – 155,000
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CaptainAmerica says: Steve,
Was 202,000 the best that Red Eye had done in the Demo ever?
What do you think is the reason for its almost 20% drop in ratings since your last story on this? Has their Beck lead in saw a big decline?
With FNC experiencing record ratings and big jumps against last month–why is Red Eye not doing as well as it was?
Any ideas?
I’ve been watching Red Eye since the very first episode. It’s the greatest show on television.
writer says: I like how at the end of his gregalogue, Greg says “if you disagree with me, you’re probably a racist homophobe.”
Really skewers the left for using that tired old excuse every time someone disagrees with them.
ChrisG says: Okay, thanks for the Red Eye ratings numbers.
Also, if you add in the Friday numbers for CNN then Anderson Cooper is down to 162,600 in the demo. So, if Red Eye’s numbers on Friday were 155,000 or higher, then they would have beat Cooper.
capitolguy says: Love it! Pretty sad when a humorous look at the news beats out CNN’s prime time line up. And don’t even mention all of the angry hosts over on MSNBC. You know all of those haters (are you READING this Olberman) must be steaming. Congrats again, FNC!
J Baustian says: I’m amazed that all these shows have such small numbers of viewers.
Here’s an idea. The World Service of the BBC Radio has an hour of live news three times a day. They call it the News Hour (catchy title). So it comes on at a reasonably convenient time for everyone in the world.
Is it so hard to produce an hour of news, live, without political bias or commentary, several times a day on a cable news channel? That’s the problem with ALL cable news channels, there are not enough news programs. Why not have an hour of news at a convenient time for people in all the times zones in the US?
Special Report with Bret Baer on FNC comes on at 3:00 pm on the West Coast, then REPEATs 10 or 11 hours later. Why can’t Fox produce LIVE news more often than that? Even if some of the stories are reruns, it’s not as if nothing new happens during the evening hours.
MCGIRV says: Red Eye’s Gutfeld is kicking butt and taking names! Bill Schultz is a poached egg but a very funny poached egg!
felixw says: They need to move Gutfeld into an earlier time. He is too good to keep hidden in his current time slot.
stoogedude says: In 2009, Paul Blart: Mall Cop made $146,000,000. The Hurt Locker made just over $12,000,000. Any credible movie critic would say that the Hurt Locker is far and away much better than Paul Blart. The point is, just because more people watch Fox News does not mean that they are more accurate than any other network. The reason Fox News and every single time slot on that network has more ratings than the others is because of this perception that only Fox News can be trusted because everything else is liberal. This is a perception they sold and it worked. People who say Fox News is far more accurate than MSNBC is living in a little dream world. CNN is the most moderate and balanced of the networks and the most accurate. News is news. Just because it doesn’t conform to your ideology doesn’t mean it’s inaccurate. I don’t get my news from MSNBC even though I agree with most of what they say.
I suppose it is because I’m one of those “evil, goatsucking, devil worshipping” liberals that I don’t find Red Eye entertaining in the least. All it is is “red meat theater”.
Captain-
I’ll look into if the 202,000 demo average was their best ever – it’s hard to say why these would be down, but as you can tell the rest of cable news is down as well (for instance, in September, they didn’t beat LKL or AC360, just Campbell).
And ChrisG – I got a Google Alert today with the Activity Pit pick-up of this post, but since I don’t have a commenter log-in I’ll respond here. Of course we’re aware of you guys! But in this particular instance, I took the 3-year anniversary as a jumping off point and went from there…
ChrisG says: Steve – glad to see that people with information about the ratings (such as yourself) are noticing what is going on with them and reporting on it (and it is getting attention). Keep up the good work.
I am above the age demographic and find this a very good show. Great news about the ratings you deserve it.
PureFreedom says: Red Eye needs to move up in time slots and start competing against the daily show.
ultraman says: Great show!!!!!! Found it last year and have been recording ever sense.
Watch for Red Eye Man coming to youtube soon!!!!!!!!!!!!
He will make you cry and want to kill oneself!!!!!!
Don’t worry, Red Eye will save you.
I am in the demo!!!!! I will now feed my kittens to my dog.
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