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HLN’s Dr. Drew Beats Fox’s Sean Hannity At 9 P.M.

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Cable news ratings, July 8, 2011:

•In the aftermath of the frenzy of coverage surrounding the Casey Anthony murder trial–and the hotly debated verdict–HLN’s Dr. Drew Pinksy seems to be hanging on to an audience, winning the 9 o’clock hour among viewers 25-54. Dr. Drew averaged 390,000 viewers, well ahead of Fox’s Hannity, which averaged 286,000. CNN’s Piers Morgan landed in fourth in the timeslot, but had CNN’s best ratings on the night, with an average audience in the demo of 174,000.

•In a surprising race at 10 p.m., HLN’s Joy Behar won the hour among viewers 25-54, beating Fox’s On the Record. MSNBC’s Friday night prison documentary, Lockup, was third, followed by Anderson Cooper 360.

Here’s the full scoreboard:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
Fox News CNN MSNBC CNN Headline News
5 pm Special

203

Blitzer

69

Matthews

191

Special

187

6 pm Baier

285

Blitzer

91

Live

177

Prime

184

7 pm Shep

305

King, USA

119

Matthews

159

Issues

275

8 pm O’Reilly

502

Space

119

O’Donnell

164

Grace

430

9 pm Hannity

286

Morgan

174

Maddow

219

DrDrew

390

10 pm Van Susteren

276

Cooper

154

Lockup

196

Behar

324

11 pm O’Reilly

394

Space

129

Lockup

260

Showbiz

187

TOTAL DAY 272 139 165 236
PRIME TIME 355 149 193 375
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.
TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
Fox News CNN MSNBC CNN Headline News
5 pm Special

940

Blitzer

448

Matthews

737

Special

756

6 pm Baier

1570

Blitzer

377

Live

641

Prime

678

7 pm Shep

1392

King, USA

402

Matthews

594

Issues

912

8 pm O’Reilly

2514

Space

337

O’Donnell

605

Grace

1466

9 pm Hannity

1502

Morgan

500

Maddow

780

DrDrew

1385

10 pm Van Susteren

995

Cooper

479

Lockup

438

Behar

989

11 pm O’Reilly

1053

Space

386

Lockup

528

Showbiz

672

TOTAL DAY 1093 444 481 774
PRIME TIME 1672 438 608 1265
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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  • Arkansas Steve

    MARK,
    It is really annoying when you ‘comment’ about a single day’s ratings without any apparent awareness of what’s going on behind those ratings.

    The Casey Anthony trial is the ‘summer obsession’ of our country. People who never watch cable news are watching HLN & even leaving their sets on HLN when they do other things.

    This is going to continue for another 10 days to 2 weeks. Then they will start reporting Anthony “sitings” and that will enamor the average American idiot (and probably that will include at least a couple Mediaite writers too).

    If you don’t understand the ratings, geet someone who does to write about them.

  • Rokker

    After Beck nosedived Hannity is probably the next Fox nutjob to tank.

  • timzank

    Rokker said:
    After Beck nosedived Hannity is probably the next Fox nutjob to tank.

    Beck didn’t “nosedive” at all, his ratings were off from peak but he had the most viewers ever experienced in that timeslot and consistently and handily whooped the sh*t out of everyone else at 5 o’clock up until the last day. Nice try though, go re-write somebody elses history.

  • lane

    Shouldn’t CNN just move Grace and Dr. Drew to its CNN channel and push MSNBC to 3rd (or 4th place). When your shows are failures, and another channel keeps its new viewers, seems rather obvious…..

  • Tedderman

    If only that were true, Hannity could use a good beating.

  • X-3

    Rokker said:
    After Beck nosedived Hannity is probably the next Fox nutjob to tank.

    Keep dreaming.

    Tedderman said:
    If only that were true, Hannity could use a good beating.

    It’s never going to happen unless Sean Hannity goes on the air and claims he’s joined the Church of Satan.

  • X-3

    Oh, and by the way Rokker, Mr. Glenn Beck was on top of the ratings for his timeslot for the entireity of his appearance on Fox. Didn’t you get the memo?

  • X-3

    Arkansas Steve said:
    MARK,
    It is really annoying when you ‘comment’ about a single day’s ratings without any apparent awareness of what’s going on behind those ratings.

    That’s what MediaLite does.

  • D REX

    Hannity is a nut job who is incensed with Obama hate ….he is trying too hard to show his disdain and losing viewers in the process….you can fool some of the people some of the time…etc etc etc

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