Bill O’Reilly’s Demo Beats Campbell Brown’s Total Last Night
Cable news ratings, August 25, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:
• Bill O’Reilly‘s FNC program topped all cable news shows last night in both the A25-54 demographic and in total viewers. He also had more demo viewers than CNN’s Campbell Brown had total viewers at 8pmET (1,001,000 to 857,000). The Factor had more than 1 million demo viewers for the 5th time this month.
• The top non-FNC program in the demo was Countdown with Keith Olbermann, while CNN’s Larry King Live was #1 in total viewers.
• CNN topped MSNBC in the battle for #2 in prime time.
Check out all the ratings below, and leave your own thoughts in the comments:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | Beck
731 |
Blitzer
105 |
Matthews
195 |
Prime
125 |
| 6 pm | Baier
453 |
Blitzer
159 |
EdShow
182 |
Prime
101 |
| 7 pm | Shep
476 |
Dobbs
177 |
Matthews
216 |
Issues
123 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
1001 |
Brown
268 |
Olbermann
384 |
Grace
279 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
812 |
King
351 |
Maddow
226 |
Issues
177 |
| 10 pm | Greta
618 |
Cooper
218 |
Olbermann
206 |
Grace
246 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
625 |
Cooper
241 |
Maddow
135 |
Showbiz
209 |
| TOTAL DAY | 454 | 165 | 132 | 133 |
| PRIME TIME | 810 | 279 | 272 | 229 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | Beck
2679 |
Blitzer
527 |
Matthews
598 |
Prime
259 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2179 |
Blitzer
552 |
EdShow
571 |
Prime
212 |
| 7 pm | Shep
1992 |
Dobbs
643 |
Matthews
645 |
Issues
394 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
3893 |
Brown
857 |
Olbermann
1091 |
Grace
823 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
2878 |
King
1279 |
Maddow
788 |
Issues
542 |
| 10 pm | Greta
2231 |
Cooper
699 |
Olbermann
629 |
Grace
557 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1684 |
Cooper
641 |
Maddow
329 |
Showbiz
432 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1637 | 580 | 407 | 310 |
| PRIME TIME | 3001 | 945 | 836 | 633 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
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