Maddow And Olbermann Team Up For Top Non-FNC Hour Friday Night

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by Steve Krakauer | 5:55 pm, October 19th, 2009

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Cable news ratings, October 16, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Rachel Maddow‘s 9pmET hour Friday night had the most total viewers of all non-FNC cable news shows. The hour was helped by a phone interview from MSNBC’s 8pmET host, Keith Olbermann, as the pair chatted about former Pres. George H.W. Bush‘s comments about them. Olbermann’s Countdown the hour before was a repeat.

• The top show of the night was Glenn Beck‘s at 5pmET, in total viewers and the A25-54 demographic. Beck had demo viewers than his competition had total viewers.

• The top non-FNC show in the demo was HLN’s Nancy Grace at 8pmET.

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

681

Blitzer

111

Matthews

144

Prime

111

6 pm

Baier

495

Blitzer

138

EdShow

122

Prime

121

7 pm

Shep

415

Dobbs

105

Matthews

172

Issues

160

8 pm

O’Reilly

583

Brown

103

Olbermann

169

Grace

256

9 pm

Hannity

497

King

148

Maddow

238

Behar

190

10 pm

Greta

433

Cooper

206

Olbermann

139

Grace

118

11 pm

O’Reilly

398

Cooper

174

Maddow

161

Showbiz

181

TOTAL DAY

385

152

110

140

PRIME TIME

504

152

182

181

Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)

5 pm

Beck

2620

Blitzer

640

Matthews

491

Prime

227

6 pm

Baier

2222

Blitzer

578

EdShow

430

Prime

262

7 pm

Shep

1916

Dobbs

423

Matthews

583

Issues

499

8 pm

O’Reilly

2490

Brown

496

Olbermann

688

Grace

734

9 pm

Hannity

2000

King

691

Maddow

937

Behar

536

10 pm

Greta

1673

Cooper

677

Olbermann

410

Grace

410

11 pm

O’Reilly

1327

Cooper

459

Maddow

489

Showbiz

388

TOTAL DAY

1477

552

374

316

PRIME TIME

2055

622

678

548

Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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sarainitaly

I am just curious why you title these posts in this manner? It sounds like you have a dog in this fight, by the way you phrase the ratings results.

Here are some possible other headlines, just to spice things up:

Arm of the Right wing, non-newschannel evil, hateful, racist FOX still kicking butt on all other channels combined.

Olbermann’s ratings continue to drop.

Hey, they may be second, but at least more people watch Olbermann than Nancy Grace…oh wait, no they don’t.

Maddow had more viewers than Joy Behar, or Olbermann, and still over 1M fewer than Hannity.

Is Chris Matthews still even on MSNBC?

He has two hours of TV and still can’t come close to FOX ratings. Who is Wolf Blitzer?
hkyplayer

I just think its funny that Olbermann and Maddow are still are whining about Bush… and there are people that watch that?
Subdivisions2112

The title of this article is hysterical sarcasm. Fox News continues to grow by leaps and bounds and people like Behar, King, Maddow, Olbermann, Matthews, Blitzer…they are all the same people! Combine their numbers and they STILL lose to Fox News. I would like to see the PST ratings. We always see EST ratings. I bet Red Eye is beating every show on cable news 2 to 1.