MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Closes To Within 3,000 Viewers Of Fox’s Van Susteren

Cable news ratings, December 7, 2010:

•It was a rare night Tuesday as Greta Van Susteren, Anderson Cooper and Lawrence O’Donnell all battled in an unusually tight ten o’clock race. Usually timeslot winner Van Susteren won the night with 369,000 viewers 25-54, but MSNBC’s O’Donnell was just 3000 viewers behind. Cooper came in third with 330,000.

•On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow‘s dissection of President Obama‘s tax cut deal hit a chord with viewers, delivering a strong audience of 427,000 viewers 25-54 and easily outperforming all other MSNBC shows. Sean Hannity, however, won the 9 o’clock hour with 625,000.

Here’s the full scoreboard:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 544	Blitzer 212	Matthews 255	Showbiz 72
6 pm	Baier 438	Blitzer 197	Ed Show 263	Prime 68
7 pm	Shep 543	King, USA 190	Matthews 305	Issues 161
8 pm	O’Reilly 978	ParkerSpitzer 186	Olbermann 394	Grace 207
9 pm	Hannity 625	King 321	Maddow 427	Behar 188
10 pm	Susteren 369	Cooper 330	O’Donnell 366	Grace 156
11 pm	O’Reilly 323	Cooper 169	Olbermann 310	Showbiz 126
TOTAL DAY	376	170	205	134
PRIME TIME	658	279	396	184
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 2300	Blitzer 709	Matthews 807	Showbiz 185
6 pm	Baier 2062	Blitzer 558	Ed Show 892	Prime 211
7 pm	Shep 2143	King, USA 468	Matthews 945	Issues 459
8 pm	O’Reilly 3525	ParkerSpitzer 545	Olbermann 1347	Grace 702
9 pm	Hannity 2390	King 934	Maddow 1349	Behar 704
10 pm	Susteren 1739	Cooper 872	O’Donnell 1046	Grace 445
11 pm	O’Reilly 1353	Cooper 434	Olbermann 678	Showbiz 300
TOTAL DAY	1533	519	622	317
PRIME TIME	2552	784	1247	617
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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