Monday Cable News Ratings: Maddow And Schultz Have Strong Night

by Mediaite Staff | 7:46 pm, February 22nd, 2012

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On Monday night, Rachel Maddow ruled MSNBC’s slate in the 25-to-54 year-old demo, pulling in 267,000 viewers, while Ed Schultz was the best on MSNBCs slate with total viewers, drawing an estimated 1.134 million.

After a ratings bonanza over the weekend with their Whitney Houston coverage, CNN fell back into third place overall in the demo, averaging 139,000 over the entire day, and 203,000 in prime time. Good news for CNN? Piers Morgan continues his strong ratings, pulling in 200,000 demo viewers on Monday night.

Monday night’s full ratings:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)

5 pm

The5

429

Blitzer

157

Matthews

137

Special

6 pm

Baier

382

King, USA

111

Sharpton

162

Prime

7 pm

Shep

483

Burnett

163

Matthews

256

Velez-Mitchell

110

8 pm

O’Reilly

565

Cooper

207

Schultz

255

Grace

171

9 pm

Hannity

490

Piers

200

Maddow

267

Dr. Drew

117

10 pm

Van Susteren

445

Cooper

202

O’Donnell

258

Grace

145

11 pm

O’Reilly

427

Burnett

177

Schultz

166

Showbiz

132

TOTAL DAY

306

139

150

PRIME TIME

500

203

260

144

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

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)

5 pm	The5 1.600	Blitzer 571	Matthews 765	Special 248
6 pm	Baier 1.777	King, USA 401	Sharpton 822	Prime 277
7 pm	Shep 1.939	Burnett 435	Matthews 859	Velez-Mitchell 346
8 pm	O’Reilly 2.998	Cooper 534	Schultz 1.134	Grace 611
9 pm	Hannity 2.161	Piers 542	Maddow 1.053	DrDrew 430
10 pm	Greta 1.617	Cooper 534	O’Donnell 980	Grace 364
11 pm	O’Reilly 1.247	Burnett 299	Schultz 577	Showbiz 397
TOTAL DAY	1.331	388	587	278
PRIME TIME	2.261	512	1.056	460
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

Anonymous

Who are these people watching Ed Schultz and why are they being tortured???
Anonymous

You can put more than 267,000 people in just ONE event, the Indy 500
on Memorial Day. Over 300,000 in fact. I think the headline here should have been
FOX kicks ratings ass again, all day all hours.
Yet FOX not even mentioned in above report. Of course they laugh!
Anonymous

You are so right, they are killing FNN
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http://twitter.com/mackette52 Sue

Yea, they did really well, until you look at the numbers at FOX.
Anonymous

Madow and Schultz get it on? No way, even Schultz would not stoop that low, OTOH, maybe he would.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Douglas-Rodrigues/100000411215939 Douglas Rodrigues

To think that anyone with a functioning brain would watch the two propagandists Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow just baffles me? How did the American public get to be so stupid so as not to be able to realize that both Schultz and Maddow continuously lie through their teeth? Everything they say is a distortion of any particular truth to make it into an untruth. They can’t see that? I guess not. The public schools systems have done their job well to further dumb-down the public.
http://twitter.com/esd2000 Er. D.

Let’s count the ratings in 2012 election results. Bye-bye Republicants.
http://twitter.com/newportrisites James Sattel

frankly, I love Smutz and Mad-cow….2 of the best comedy shows on the tube…Well, Spittle Mathews is pretty funny too…but that Larry O….he is one scary dude….Larry, take your meds….please