Bill O’Reilly’s NBC Anchor Attack Leads To Best (Demo) Night Of 2009

by Steve Krakauer | 5:42 pm, August 20th, 2009

RATINGS

Cable news ratings, August 19, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Fox News’ 8pmET host Bill O’Reilly had his best night of 2009 last night — a show during which he went after NBC anchors — in the A25-54 demographic, averaging 1,101,000 viewers. That means the program had more demo viewers than every prime time CNN show had total viewers. O’Reilly also had the top program of the night in total viewers, with 3,701,000.

• The best non-FNC show was once again Countdown with Keith Olbermann in both the demo and in total viewers, with 476,000 in the demo and 1,207,000 total viewers.

• Fox News continued the streak of topping all the cable competition combined, beating CNN, MSNBC, HLN and CNBC during prime time in total viewers and the demo.

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

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

5 pm

Beck

492

Blitzer

129

Matthews

168

Prime

6 pm

Baier

391

Blitzer

159

EdShow

169

Prime

105

7 pm

Shep

397

Dobbs

188

Matthews

182

Issues

137

8 pm

O’Reilly

1101

Brown

201

Olbermann

476

Grace

256

9 pm

Hannity

813

King

255

Maddow

353

Issues

186

10 pm

Greta

651

Cooper

185

Olbermann

295

Grace

134

11 pm

O’Reilly

599

Cooper

187

Maddow

236

Showbiz

131

TOTAL DAY

415

167

155

127

PRIME TIME

859

214

375

186

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

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)

5 pm

Beck

2044

Blitzer

684

Matthews

486

Prime

225

6 pm

Baier

1812

Blitzer

635

EdShow

466

Prime

155

7 pm

Shep

1686

Dobbs

624

Matthews

638

Issues

370

8 pm

O’Reilly

3701

Brown

687

Olbermann

1207

Grace

653

9 pm

Hannity

2637

King

884

Maddow

1044

Issues

455

10 pm

Greta

2229

Cooper

584

Olbermann

754

Grace

416

11 pm

O’Reilly

1764

Cooper

447

Maddow

538

Showbiz

417

TOTAL DAY

1565

569

445

293

PRIME TIME

2865

718

1002

496

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

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2 comments

Pam1151 says:

August 20, 2009 at 8:32 pm

It doesn’t hurt that many cable companies extra for MSNBC. CNN and Fox are available on all of the cable companies. I would think that CNN and MSNBC split all of the leftover from Fox. It takes a special taste to watch Fox.

libra blue says:

August 20, 2009 at 10:43 pm

It looks like Anderson “golden boy” Cooper is beginning to tarnish. It is a joke to even compare his numbers to Greta’s any longer. Anderson’s live numbers are not only lower than Olbermann’s live numbers in both categories, but lower than KO’s repeat as well, not to mention lower than Grace’s live numbers in both the demo and total viewers.

You would think this fall from grace in the ratings would “inspire” Anderson to start blogging and tweeting to the viewers (hell, it is working for Larry King) and to stop all the censorship on the 360 blog and allow all opinions to be heard, but no, the censorship is still going on big time and Anderson continues to ignore the viewers. Frankly I think, it is too late, if he started to do it now most viewers wouldn’t care because they would know he was doing it just for the sake of ratings.

Maybe Anderson is trying to reach a “new” audience with his appearance on “Watch What Happens Now: Live” tonight. Good luck, I doubt people who watch that show are news hounds.

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