FNC Tops CNN With Live Tiger Woods Coverage; MSNBC Stays Largely In Tape

by Steve Krakauer | 6:10 pm, December 1st, 2009

Cable news ratings, November 27, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Fox News beat CNN in a battle of cable news networks who spent Friday largely in live programming, covering the breaking Tiger Woods story (after about 2:30pmET), among other stories. MSNBC was largely in doc block for the day, and finished 2nd (ahead of CNN) in the demo and 3rd in total viewers. FNC beat CNN and MSNBC combined in total viewers, total day.

• Bill O’Reilly’s 8pmET special on Fox News was the top program in total viewers and the demo.

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 348	Blitzer 218	MSNBC Special 226	Prime 134
6 pm	Baier 317	Blitzer 204	MSNBC Special 214	Prime 141
7 pm	Shep 306	Tonight 167	MSNBC Special 242	Issues 127
8 pm	O’Reilly 424	Brown 113	MSNBC Special 197	Grace 191
9 pm	Hannity 284	King 133	MSNBC Special 267	Behar 107
10 pm	Greta 249	Cooper 196	MSNBC Special 210	Grace 132
11 pm	O’Reilly 192	Cooper 191	MSNBC Special 201	Showbiz 127
TOTAL DAY	248	140	163	122
PRIME TIME	319	147	224	140
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)

5 pm	Beck 1590	Blitzer 813	MSNBC Special 524	Prime 289
6 pm	Baier 1649	Blitzer 703	MSNBC Special 379	Prime 315
7 pm	Shep 1508	Tonight 559	MSNBC Special 413	Issues 271
8 pm	O’Reilly 2009	Brown 637	MSNBC Special 461	Grace 594
9 pm	Hannity 1268	King 595	MSNBC Special 548	Behar 404
10 pm	Greta 1032	Cooper 709	MSNBC Special 350	Grace 320
11 pm	O’Reilly 769	Cooper 600	MSNBC Special 303	Showbiz 315
TOTAL DAY	1078	556	335	285
PRIME TIME	1437	647	453	427
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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