Fox News Dominates Election Night Ratings Tuesday, Hannity’s Best Ever
Cable news ratings, January 19, 2010: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:
• In the first of many elections night taking place in 2010, Fox News dominated the cable news networks, with its highest prime time viewership since Election Day 2008. FNC was the #1 news network by far, topping CNN, MSNBC and HLN combined in prime time and total day, total viewers and the A25-54 demographic. Sean Hannity has his best ratings ever in total viewers at 9pmET – the hour Bret Baier announced Scott Brown‘s victory.
• FNC didn’t just clean up on cable. The network had more viewers during prime time than The Jay Leno Show, and Greta Van Susteren‘s 10pmET show and Hannity’s 9pmET show topped all ABC prime time programs.
• CNN finished 2nd in every category, total day and prime time, with MSNBC 3rd. One TV critic had a major problem with MSNBC’s coverage.
Check out all the ratings below, and leave your own thoughts in the comments:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm |
Beck 956 |
Blitzer 260 |
Matthews 158 |
Prime 92 |
| 6 pm |
Baier 800 |
Blitzer 361 |
Ed Show 161 |
Prime 82 |
| 7 pm |
Shep 908 |
Tonight 387 |
Matthews 245 |
Issues 186 |
| 8 pm |
O’Reilly 1460 |
Brown 380 |
Olbermann 396 |
Grace 269 |
| 9 pm |
Hannity 2129 |
King 507 |
Maddow 422 |
Behar 291 |
| 10 pm |
Greta 2077 |
Cooper 564 |
Olbermann 343 |
Grace 207 |
| 11 pm |
Greta 1022 |
Cooper 497 |
Maddow 249 |
Showbiz 173 |
| TOTAL DAY | 757 | 290 | 172 | 160 |
| PRIME TIME | 1901 | 483 | 387 | 250 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm |
Beck 3446 |
Blitzer 1076 |
Matthews 656 |
Prime 236 |
| 6 pm |
Baier 3338 |
Blitzer 1135 |
Ed Show 620 |
Prime 235 |
| 7 pm |
Shep 3241 |
Tonight 1191 |
Matthews 798 |
Issues 425 |
| 8 pm |
O’Reilly 5228 |
Brown 1308 |
Olbermann 1274 |
Grace 768 |
| 9 pm |
Hannity 6809 |
King 1681 |
Maddow 1236 |
Behar 845 |
| 10 pm |
Greta 6399 |
Cooper 1508 |
Olbermann 903 |
Grace 429 |
| 11 pm |
Greta 2908 |
Cooper 1071 |
Maddow 641 |
Showbiz 342 |
| TOTAL DAY | 2586 | 898 | 547 | 353 |
| PRIME TIME | 6161 | 1503 | 1138 | 668 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
