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Do HLN’s Prime Ratings Reveal The Future?

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Cable news ratings, November 24, 2010:

•Holiday week ratings are usually no good for reading tea leaves, but with word today that Dr. Drew Pinsky‘s set to join the primetime lineup at HLN, it’s hard not to look at those numbers. Nancy Grace remains solid at 8, and Joy Behar dips at 9, but perhaps the week spot is the re-air of Nancy Grace at 10, which had just 97,000 viewers 25-54. At 11:00, the re-air of Showbiz continues to be quite strong for HLN.

•CNN’s Parker/Spitzer broke 100,000 viewers 25-54, even edging John King by 4,000 viewers, but that two hour block remains an area of concern for CNN.

Here’s the full scoreboard:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
Fox News CNN MSNBC CNN Headline News
5 pm Beck

465

Blitzer

153

Matthews

135

Showbiz

81

6 pm Baier

453

Blitzer

146

Ed Show

125

Prime

88

7 pm Shep

414

King, USA

102

Matthews

143

Issues

134

8 pm O’Reilly

559

ParkerSpitzer

106

Olbermann

266

Grace

137

9 pm Hannity

415

King

116

Maddow

180

Behar

103

10 pm Van Susteren

335

Cooper

129

O’Donnell

123

Grace

97

11 pm O’Reilly

338

Cooper

94

Olbermann

129

Showbiz

168

TOTAL DAY 344 123 111 135
PRIME TIME 437 117 190 110
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

1677

Blitzer

588

Matthews

505

Showbiz

170

6 pm Baier

2150

Blitzer

501

Ed Show

536

Prime

236

7 pm Shep

1913

King, USA

405

Matthews

563

Issues

391

8 pm O’Reilly

2481

ParkerSpitzer

317

Olbermann

938

Grace

552

9 pm Hannity

1507

King

977

Maddow

553

Behar

522

10 pm Van Susteren

1415

Cooper

527

O’Donnell

417

Grace

354

11 pm O’Reilly

939

Cooper

318

Olbermann

447

Showbiz

474

TOTAL DAY 1337 367 402 318
PRIME TIME 1802 608 636 467
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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  • Arkansas Steve

    Please do us all a favor and get rid of Joy Behar!!
    Forget basing your decision exclusively on ratings. Just to the decent thing.
    There is “no joy” with Joy.

  • gjp

    Something is wrong here, I thought everyone agreed no one is watching Beck anymore? Looks like he pulls more viewers total and in the demo than the other 3 news channels combined. Could the MSM be fibbing? Nah, they would NEVER do that.

  • BatBoy

    The only shows HLN has going for it is Morning Express with Robin Meade and Clark Howard. Both shows are very entertaining and well done…..

    If they got rid of all of the other talent and started over with these two, they might get somewhere.

  • BatBoy

    gjp said:
    Could the MSM be fibbing? Nah, they would NEVER do that.

    They had it so good when we could not check up on what they said……Oh well, life lessons for the MSM are hard.

  • BatBoy

    Another one bites the dust…..

    Salon.com is exploring opportunities to merge with or be acquired by another media company, an acknowledgment of the perilous economics of running a free-standing online news organization.

    The site was a pioneer in online news, and has endured as a source of high-brow political and cultural coverage and commentary. But 15-year-old Salon has been unable to stanch its red ink. Salon Media Group Inc. has racked up net losses of more than $15 million in the past five years, with nearly a third of that coming in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsJcg-g1pg

    When will they ever learn? I’ll spare you that tune!

  • BlackWidow

    Arkansas Steve said:
    Please do us all a favor and get rid of Joy Behar!!Forget basing your decision exclusively on ratings. Just to the decent thing.There is “no joy” with Joy.

    Steve do you really watch her prpogram? If not what do you care? There are enough stations and shows and I am sure you can find something else to watch. I don’t like her but I could really care less if all of those big mouth women on HLN stay or go!

  • Just4thefax

    BlackWidow said:
    Steve do you really watch her prpogram? If not what do you care? There are enough stations and shows and I am sure you can find something else to watch. I don’t like her but I could really care less if all of those big mouth women on HLN stay or go!

    Fact: You get my Pin Head of Mediaite vote!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Leah-Ma/1391341060 Leah Ma

    These ratings show exactly why we’re rushing head on into the greatest depression our country has ever seen. All of you idiots who voted the right wingers in, what are you going to do when unemployment comp is cut off, welfare is cut off, food stamps are cut off, etc? Here’s how it goes; the republicans are only for the rich. They don’t like the rich. If you have illusions of being in the upper class and earn less than a few million a year? Forget it! You’re not! They don’t want you! You could starve to death & they wouldn’t care! The republicans want to vote tax cuts for the rich people which will make it impossible to continue unemployment payments, etc. They also want to eventually eliminate Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Pensions, etc. Without the money from the tax cuts available there will be no new jobs available. More teachers will be laid off, ditto with policemen. Forget about repairing the infrastructure. Many public libraries will be closed. Life will gradually deteriorate in this country–and you idiots won’t have a clue as to why this happened. Well, duh!!! It’s because you listen to idiots like Glen Beck & vote Republican. Everyone else is laughing at us–all the other countries, China, all the European countries; they can’t figure why we’re behaving so stupid. Frankly, I can’t either.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Leah-Ma/1391341060 Leah Ma

    Correction, where I said ‘they don’t like the rich’, I meant to say ‘they only like the rich’.

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