FNC Beats All Cable News Competition Combined Again

Cable news ratings, August 12, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Fox News beat all of its competitors (CNN, MSNBC, HLN and CNBC) combined again last night in total viewers and the A25-54 demographic in prime time – for the third consecutive night. FNC averaged 2,982,000 total viewers and 834,000 in the demo. This was the 5th time in 2009 FNC accomplished the feat.

• Christiane Amanpour’s special from 9-11pmET last night for CNN averaged 235,000 viewers in the demo and 735,000 total viewers. That placed her in 3rd place in both categories, way behind FNC and behind MSNBC as well.

• Keith Olbermann had the top rated non-FNC show in both categories again last night for MSNBC.

• MSNBC topped CNN in the race for #2 in prime time, 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)
5 pm	Beck   662	Blitzer   157	Matthews   108	Prime   185
6 pm	Baier   502	Blitzer   166	EdShow   157	Prime   131
7 pm	Shep   542	Dobbs   159	Matthews   139	Issues   130
8 pm	O’Reilly   960	Brown   235	Olbermann   318	Grace   213
9 pm	Hannity   821	Amanpour   235	Maddow   284	Issues   128
10 pm	Greta   719	—   —	Olbermann   241	Grace   133
11 pm	O’Reilly   627	Cooper   169	Maddow   184	Showbiz   114
TOTAL DAY	475	166	147	119
PRIME TIME	834	235	281	153
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck   2411	Blitzer   770	Matthews   425	Prime   359
6 pm	Baier   2042	Blitzer   612	EdShow   429	Prime   227
7 pm	Shep   1866	Dobbs   623	Matthews   511	Issues   351
8 pm	O’Reilly   3520	Brown   748	Olbermann   988	Grace   605
9 pm	Hannity   2857	Amanpour   735	Maddow   975	Issues   425
10 pm	Greta   2528	—–   —–	Olbermann   691	Grace   422
11 pm	O’Reilly   1760	Cooper   442	Maddow   461	Showbiz   380
TOTAL DAY	1625	559	423	298
PRIME TIME	2982	739	885	475
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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