Glenn Beck Gets Most Viewers Of All Time (Again) on Tuesday
Cable news ratings, September 15, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:
• Coming off his top ratings on Thursday night, and huge ratings for his 9/12 special Saturday, Glenn Beck had his highest total viewer average last night, with 3,421,000 viewers. It was #3 on all of cable news, well behind Bill O’Reilly and just being edged by Sean Hannity. He was #5 on cable news in the A25-54 demo however, behind O’Reilly, Hannity, Greta Van Susteren and O’Reilly’s 11pmET repeat.
• Hannity’s average was his 2nd highest of 2009 and O’Reilly’s 8pmET average was his 3rd highest of 2009. O’Reilly had more than four million total viewers last night.
• The top non-FNC show was MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann again last night, 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) | ||||
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| 5 pm | Beck
723 |
Blitzer
150 |
Matthews
169 |
Prime
109 |
| 6 pm | Baier
493 |
Blitzer
145 |
EdShow
177 |
Prime
111 |
| 7 pm | Shep
538 |
Dobbs
152 |
Matthews
217 |
Issues
151 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
1059 |
Brown
173 |
Olbermann
442 |
Grace
292 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
922 |
King
318 |
Maddow
386 |
Issues
230 |
| 10 pm | Greta
804 |
Cooper
295 |
Olbermann
307 |
Grace
222 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
770 |
Cooper
201 |
Maddow
228 |
Showbiz
263 |
| TOTAL DAY | 490 | 186 | 169 | 155 |
| PRIME TIME | 928 | 262 | 378 | 247 |
| 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
3421 |
Blitzer
809 |
Matthews
580 |
Prime
290 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2273 |
Blitzer
739 |
EdShow
652 |
Prime
307 |
| 7 pm | Shep
2201 |
Dobbs
673 |
Matthews
805 |
Issues
401 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
4039 |
Brown
693 |
Olbermann
1395 |
Grace
870 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
3451 |
King
1355 |
Maddow
1369 |
Issues
630 |
| 10 pm | Greta
2785 |
Cooper
1086 |
Olbermann
729 |
Grace
448 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
2231 |
Cooper
684 |
Maddow
518 |
Showbiz
447 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1860 | 676 | 520 | 347 |
| PRIME TIME | 3426 | 1044 | 1165 | 643 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||



