CNN Finishes Fourth In Prime Time Demo For Fourth Straight Night

Cable news ratings, October 8, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below: • For the fourth consecutive night, CNN finished as the #4 cable news channel in the A25-54 demographic during prime time Thursday night. And this time it wasn’t even very close. Fox News averaged 691,000, MSNBC 235,000, HLN 231,000 and CNN 151,000. CNN finished 3rd in total viewers during prime time, ahead of HLN.

• Bill O’Reilly had the top cable news show at 8pmET on Fox News, by a wide margin in total viewers. O’Reilly had 3,765,000 total viewers – the #2 program, Glenn Beck‘s, had 2,559,000.

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

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   692	Blitzer   181	Matthews   113	Prime   144
6 pm	Baier   494	Blitzer   185	EdShow   101	Prime   99
7 pm	Shep   472	Dobbs   152	Matthews   125	Issues   148
8 pm	O’Reilly   946	Brown   127	Olbermann   254	Grace   288
9 pm	Hannity   520	King   171	Maddow   198	Behar   215
10 pm	Greta   574	Cooper   157	Olbermann   251	Grace   204
11 pm	O’Reilly   466	Cooper   117	Maddow   163	Showbiz   171
TOTAL DAY	398	138	134	142
PRIME TIME	691	151	235	232
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck   2559	Blitzer   546	Matthews   527	Prime   253
6 pm	Baier   2157	Blitzer   623	EdShow   440	Prime   232
7 pm	Shep   1915	Dobbs   585	Matthews   614	Issues   361
8 pm	O’Reilly   3765	Brown   662	Olbermann   962	Grace   893
9 pm	Hannity   2184	King   784	Maddow   854	Behar   523
10 pm	Greta   2196	Cooper   501	Olbermann   707	Grace   406
11 pm	O’Reilly   1346	Cooper   316	Maddow   519	Showbiz   351
TOTAL DAY	1492	517	414	299
PRIME TIME	2728	649	841	594
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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