MSNBC Goes Doc Block In Prime Time Wednesday, Finishes Fourth

by Steve Krakauer | 5:43 pm, November 30th, 2009

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Cable news ratings, November 25, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• MSNBC made the choice to go into doc block programming Wednesday night, which is normally the programming reserved for the weekends and holidays. So with no new prime time shows, the network finished 4th in prime time in the A25-54 demographic and total viewers. Fox News, as usual, was 1st by far, with HLN 2nd in demo and CNN 2nd in total viewers.

• The top program of the night was Bill O’Reilly’s 8pmET show on Fox News – which was basically a Dennis Miller greatest hits show – in total viewers and the demo.

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

641

Blitzer

124

Matthews

110

Prime

6 pm

Baier

511

Blitzer

EdShow

125

Prime

7 pm

Shep

519

Tonight

108

Special

Issues

8 pm

O’Reilly

794

Brown

143

Special

123

Grace

256

9 pm

Hannity

484

King

188

Special

121

Behar

177

10 pm

Greta

421

Cooper

132

Special

Grace

194

11 pm

O’Reilly

344

Cooper

136

Special

Showbiz

154

TOTAL DAY

365

122

115

PRIME TIME

569

154

113

201

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

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)

5 pm

Beck

2344

Blitzer

513

Matthews

433

Prime

182

6 pm

Baier

2180

Blitzer

393

EdShow

423

Prime

216

7 pm

Shep

1888

Tonight

485

Special

306

Issues

303

8 pm

O’Reilly

2914

Brown

733

Special

390

Grace

683

9 pm

Hannity

1785

King

922

Special

402

Behar

460

10 pm

Greta

1467

Cooper

626

Special

268

Grace

443

11 pm

O’Reilly

1141

Cooper

441

Special

181

Showbiz

388

TOTAL DAY

1360

488

297

274

PRIME TIME

2060

761

353

515

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

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2 comments

Zakk says:

December 1, 2009 at 1:38 pm

Another brilliant move by the brains that run MSNBC

Maggie Denson says:

December 1, 2009 at 6:10 pm

Do you think that MSNBC might have a little better ratings IF they would give the REAL news, not just get on air and start to put down every person who Olbermann and Maddow don’t like. That is all these two, supposedly journalist, say from the beginning of their show, until the last. I have tried, but cannot listen to the constant dirty talk they both give to just anyone who they don’t like.

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