Anderson Cooper’s Ratings Soar Past The Rest Of CNN Prime Time Wednesday

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by Steve Krakauer | 8:26 pm, July 22nd, 2010

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Cable news ratings, July 21, 2010: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Wednesday night marked Campbell Brown‘s last night at 8pmET for CNN, and Larry King is leaving his 9pmET show soon. But it was Anderson Cooper‘s 10pmET show which won in both total viewers and the A25-54 demographic.

• Keith Olbermann returned from vacation to give a special comment – and had the top MSNBC show in the demo, but Rachel Maddow had the top show in total viewers.

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)

5 pm

Beck

611

Blitzer

159

Matthews

165

Showbiz

6 pm

Baier

422

Blitzer

158

Ed Show

196

Prime

106

7 pm

Shep

354

King, USA

147

Matthews

175

Issues

189

8 pm

O’Reilly

757

Brown

142

Olbermann

276

Grace

200

9 pm

Hannity

579

King

190

Maddow

245

Behar

156

10 pm

Greta

529

Cooper

255

Olbermann

265

Grace

169

11 pm

O’Reilly

656

Cooper

187

Maddow

222

Showbiz

151

TOTAL DAY

344

144

143

132

PRIME TIME

622

195

262

169

Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)

5 pm

Beck

2442

Blitzer

680

Matthews

580

Showbiz

246

6 pm

Baier

1997

Blitzer

560

Ed Show

692

Prime

285

7 pm

Shep

1515

King, USA

533

Matthews

619

Issues

445

8 pm

O’Reilly

3082

Brown

562

Olbermann

951

Grace

621

9 pm

Hannity

2099

King

714

Maddow

976

Behar

620

10 pm

Greta

1884

Cooper

783

Olbermann

595

Grace

377

11 pm

O’Reilly

1683

Cooper

466

Maddow

574

Showbiz

390

TOTAL DAY

1219

457

441

277

PRIME TIME

2355

686

841

527

Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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felixw

It just looks like soaring, ’cause the others be sinking.
http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

Andy , Larry King wants to know a good place to take a chick on a first date in New York . Do you know , or should he ask Joy Behar ?
TfT

Yup – Cooper soared right into third place. HAHA
Sean68

Damning with faint praise if I ever heard it.
Moderate

What! No mention of Fox News.
libra blue

Anderson just gave his definition of what journalism is. Unfortunately, some of the reporting that he and CNN have been doing on the Tea Parties and the Sherrod story, to name two, don’t fit that definition.
Azarkhan

“Andy , Larry King wants to know a good place to take a chick on a first date in New York”

I don’t think Andy know’s much about chicks. Just sayin’.
miki01

Soaring where? All thats soaring is Fox!! Take that u quasi-journolists!
Arkansas Steve

Anderson has been terrible on the Shirley Sherrod story.

Trouble is, he really doesn’t know how bad he is on this story.
Maybe he’s figured out that being opinionated, even when missing the point, often works.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

Cooper is a pathetic dweeb, so if he “soars” past other CNN dorks…who cares?
Some_Dude

Why do we care about television ratings so much? I don’t know anyone over 18 that doesn’t watch news segments on-line or in a podcast.
sarainitaly

So, basically, Olbermann could have stayed on vacation, grabbed a bullhorn, and gave his special report from whatever beach he was on, and as many people would have heard it?