Glenn Beck Finishing Week With #2 Cable News Show on Friday

Cable news ratings, July 31, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Fox News host Glenn Beck finished as the #2 cable news show on Friday, in both total viewers and the A25-54 demographic. The 5pmET show regularly wins the hour, but one of FNC’s prime time programs usually takes the silver (Bill O’Reilly is consistently #1).

• Richard Wolffe, filling in for Keith Olbermann, gave MSNBC’s Countdown a solid rating, with 244,000 in the demo and #2 during the 8pmET hour. Olbermann is back tonight – will the ratings be strong as people wait to hear what he has to say re Truce-gate?

• In the battle for #2 in prime time, MSNBC won in the demo, while CNN took 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   504	Blitzer   160	Matthews   102	Prime   72
6 pm	Baier   409	Blitzer   194	EdShow   145	Prime   66
7 pm	Shep   291	Dobbs   131	Matthews   178	Issues   96
8 pm	O’Reilly   544	Brown   191	Olbermann   244	Grace   169
9 pm	Hannity   411	King   192	Special   197	Issues   78
10 pm	Greta   338	Cooper   163	Special   255	Grace   115
11 pm	O’Reilly   336	Cooper   203	Special   331	Showbiz   169
TOTAL DAY	285	161	135	106
PRIME TIME	431	182	232	118
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck   2108	Blitzer   648	Matthews   429	Prime   198
6 pm	Baier   1863	Blitzer   633	EdShow   468	Prime   264
7 pm	Shep   1528	Dobbs   566	Matthews   533	Issues   379
8 pm	O’Reilly   2524	Brown   765	Olbermann   765	Grace   612
9 pm	Hannity   1902	King   877	Special   487	Issues   309
10 pm	Greta   1557	Cooper   646	Special   433	Grace   288
11 pm	O’Reilly   1334	Cooper   629	Special   480	Showbiz   388
TOTAL DAY	1166	558	343	274
PRIME TIME	1995	763	562	392
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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