Bill O’Reilly’s Ratings Skyrocket After The View Confrontation

Cable news ratings, October 14, 2010:

• Bill O’Reilly regularly hosts the most watched show on cable news. Last night, after his appearance on The View, he did even better than usual. O’Reilly had 1,107,000 viewers in the demo, and 4,165,000 total viewers.

• HLN had a strong night last night – with Joy Behar recapping her take on the O’Reilly argument. Behar was #2 at 9pmET in the demo. Nancy Grace had a solid night the hour before as well, significantly ahead of Parker Spitzer in both categories.

Here’s the full scoreboard:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 566	Blitzer 132	Matthews 107	Showbiz 68
6 pm	Baier 454	Blitzer 98	Ed Show 173	Prime 91
7 pm	Shep 492	King, USA 80	Matthews 225	Issues 131
8 pm	O’Reilly 1107	ParkerSpitzer 111	Olbermann 328	Grace 267
9 pm	Hannity 733	King 114	Maddow 227	Behar 295
10 pm	Greta 690	Cooper 236	O’Donnell 250	Grace 126
11 pm	O’Reilly 558	Cooper 150	Olbermann 196	Showbiz 110
TOTAL DAY	385	123	138	115
PRIME TIME	843	154	269	2216
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 2178	Blitzer 580	Matthews 652	Showbiz 125
6 pm	Baier 2263	Blitzer 468	Ed Show 765	Prime 181
7 pm	Shep 1948	King, USA 447	Matthews 738	Issues 376
8 pm	O’Reilly 4165	Parker/Spitzer 532	Olbermann 1253	Grace 776
9 pm	Hannity 2662	King 596	Maddow 966	Behar 761
10 pm	Greta 2519	Cooper 808	O’Donnell 931	Grace 345
11 pm	O’Reilly 1830	Cooper 555	Olbermann 622	Showbiz 306
TOTAL DAY	1434	466	480	273
PRIME TIME	3115	645	1050	618
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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