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Bill O’Reilly’s Demo Rating Higher Than MSNBC/CNN Total Viewer Rating At 8pm

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Cable news ratings, September 23, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

Bill O’Reilly‘s A25-54 demographic viewership Wednesday night at 8pmET for Fox News (934,000) topped the total viewer average of his competition at CNN and MSNBC. The only network that had more total viewers than O’Reilly’s demo average was HLN and Nancy Grace.

• The top non-FNC show of the night was CNN’s Larry King Live at 9pmET in both categories.

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

 

728

Blitzer

 

224

Matthews

 

104

Prime

 

107

6 pm Baier

 

500

Blitzer

 

196

EdShow

 

146

Prime

 

153

7 pm Shep

 

516

Dobbs

 

244

Matthews

 

215

Issues

 

202

8 pm O’Reilly

 

934

Brown

 

253

Olbermann

 

331

Grace

 

358

9 pm Hannity

 

866

King

 

399

Maddow

 

337

Issues

 

149

10 pm Greta

 

641

Cooper

 

377

Olbermann

 

191

Grace

 

228

11 pm O’Reilly

 

623

Cooper

 

231

Maddow

 

226

Showbiz

 

254

TOTAL DAY 474 214 148 185
PRIME TIME 814 343 286 239
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

 

2874

Blitzer

 

790

Matthews

 

450

Prime

 

314

6 pm Baier

 

2224

Blitzer

 

618

EdShow

 

512

Prime

 

343

7 pm Shep

 

2136

Dobbs

 

703

Matthews

 

583

Issues

 

497

8 pm O’Reilly

 

3536

Brown

 

671

Olbermann

 

904

Grace

 

957

9 pm Hannity

 

2743

King

 

1293

Maddow

 

990

Issues

 

490

10 pm Greta

 

2444

Cooper

 

1085

Olbermann

 

556

Grace

 

540

11 pm O’Reilly

 

1833

Cooper

 

635

Maddow

 

526

Showbiz

 

482

TOTAL DAY 1736 678 427 392
PRIME TIME 2910 1017 817 648
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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  • ChuckfromTacoma

    Looks like O’Reilly repeated during his 11:00 PM rerun in doing more in his demo than Olbermann did in his 10:00 PM rerun. Are heads ever going to roll at any of the other cable news networks over this poor performance on all of their parts? My goodness, in my business, if we lost that many “customers” to the competition, there would be some unemployment checks being cashed.
    Is some of the on-air talent better than they are being allowed to be? I remember Beck saying that part of the success of his new show is FNC allowing him to do his show his way, and that he did not have that freedom at CNN. Is management holding some of these people back?
    I am just an outsider that is addicted to news (and this blogging crap).

  • sarainitaly

    Nancy Grace beat Olbermann! *snicker*

  • Billy Carter

    @Chuckfrom Tacoma
    Good points. It’ll be interesting to see how John Stossel will affect the FNC ratings when he joins them. Stossel also commented that FNC is going to allow him to be creative. I’m looking forward to watching him, as he did good work over at ABC over the years.

  • western Dave

    C’mon!
    I predict that Olbermann/Maddow will soon have thier highest viewership show very shortly!
    November 2nd to be exact.

    The last time that happened was Jan 20th. The Scott Brown election night, where they had the largest viewership in any recent time.

    Guess it must have been all those like me, wanting to see the losers squirm and try to explain why they lost a “Sure Thing”!

    Pretty sure I’ll watch more than a couple seconds of these two again (-:

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