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Bill O’Reilly Tops Competition By 300,000+ In Demo

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Cable news ratings, November 2, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

Bill O’Reilly, once again, had the top show on cable news last night in both total viewers and the A25-54 demographic. In the demo, he was far ahead of the rest of the pack – O’Reilly had 943,000 demo viewers, Glenn Beck was #2 with 643,000.

• The top non-FNC show was Nancy Grace‘s 8pmET HLN hour in the demo and Keith Olbermann‘s 8pmET MSNBC hour in total viewers.

• Some cable news show saw year-long lows last night, with CNN’s Larry King at 9pmET and Anderson Cooper at 10pmET having their worst total viewer average of 2009. We may have to blame the World Series a little bit – Sean Hannity‘s total viewer average at 9pmET for Fox News was lower than Bret Baier at 6pmET and Shepard Smith at 7pmET.

Check out all the ratings below, and leave your own thoughts in the comments:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
Fox News CNN MSNBC CNN Headline News
5 pm Beck

643

Blitzer

141

Matthews

117

Prime

98

6 pm Baier

493

Blitzer

103

EdShow

151

Prime

105

7 pm Shep

505

Dobbs

146

Matthews

178

Issues

175

8 pm O’Reilly

943

Brown

191

Olbermann

246

Grace

327

9 pm Hannity

536

King

160

Maddow

310

Behar

148

10 pm Greta

374

Cooper

105

Olbermann

207

Grace

168

11 pm O’Reilly

368

Cooper

76

Maddow

126

Showbiz

159

TOTAL DAY 379 130 122 146
PRIME TIME 619 152 254 209
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.
TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
Fox News CNN MSNBC CNN Headline News
5 pm Beck

2849

Blitzer

761

Matthews

528

Prime

279

6 pm Baier

2283

Blitzer

520

EdShow

539

Prime

252

7 pm Shep

2200

Dobbs

675

Matthews

669

Issues

478

8 pm O’Reilly

3276

Brown

554

Olbermann

955

Grace

721

9 pm Hannity

1914

King

451

Maddow

854

Behar

291

10 pm Greta

1462

Cooper

396

Olbermann

561

Grace

413

11 pm O’Reilly

1216

Cooper

296

Maddow

383

Showbiz

328

TOTAL DAY 1515 507 398 315
PRIME TIME 2219 467 790 462
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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  • Tacoma Chuck

    Wow for Bill O’Reilly. If you add up all of the CNN or MSNBC shows overall veiwers and compare the numbers to Bill O’Reilly’s two shows, he got more viewers than they got combined over the 7 hours..
    In the demo, it works out the same for CNN and O’Reilly came within 24000 with his two shows of MSNBC in their 7 hours.
    I think that that qualifies for a resounding atta boy.

  • TfT

    Hannity and Greta had really low numbers last night.

    The story though is still CNN. Cooper has fallen and he can’t get up. Dobbs has the most viewers in totals, that’s a switch. Maybe the boycott Dobbs is having the opposite effect like the boycott Beck did.

    It will be interesting to see the numbers tomorrow, given the election coverage tonight. Will CNN finally beat MSNBC in the prime time? Or will their “real journalism” win the night? LOL

  • DWHarper

    No media company could survive with ANY OF THESE RATINGS, including Fox News. Like Plouffe said, Fox News’ average of 2.2 million viewers is not a large portion of the voting population and the media, including Mediaite, hangs way too much power on Fox News for basically dismal ratings.

  • ImNotBlue

    DWHarper says:
    November 3, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    Tell Anita Dunn and the White House that. I’m sure they have a different opinion about how “important” FOX News is.

  • libra blue

    Everyone’s numbers were low so let’s not give Anderson an excuse. Grace and Olbermann still destroyed him.

    I must say I am surprised that he did not win the night based on the enormous blog buzz about his “bubble bath and rose petal vacation” in India last week at the Rambagh Palace. I guess people are more interested in his personal life than in his professional one.

  • rmbltmbl

    good call, Steve, thanks.

  • kimtaylor

    It’s only an “Imus Moment”, if O’Reilly and FoxNews allows it to become one. They should just ignore it. Once it’s addressed by them, the whole thing snowballs…

    Cables

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