Nancy Grace Finishes 2nd (Twice), Joy Behar 3rd For HLN

Cable news ratings, September 29, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Joy Behar‘s premiere at 9pmET for HLN finished 3rd in the A25-54 demographic, ahead of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, but 4th in total viewers. Her colleague Nancy Grace, however, had a huge night. Grace finished 2nd (behind Fox News) in the demo at both 8pmET and for her repeat at 10pmET.

• The top show of the night was Bill O’Reilly‘s at 8pmET, followed far behind by Glenn Beck at 5pmET for Fox News.

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   701	Blitzer   162	Matthews   149	Prime   133
6 pm	Baier   516	Blitzer   165	EdShow   161	Prime   155
7 pm	Shep   386	Dobbs   222	Matthews   203	Issues   228
8 pm	O’Reilly   906	Brown   259	Olbermann   208	Grace   290
9 pm	Hannity   577	King   300	Maddow   161	Behar   215
10 pm	Greta   514	Cooper   176	Olbermann   143	Grace   262
11 pm	O’Reilly   506	Cooper   185	Maddow   140	Showbiz   202
TOTAL DAY	421	175	126	159
PRIME TIME	666	273	171	253
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck   2793	Blitzer   752	Matthews   568	Prime   342
6 pm	Baier   2239	Blitzer   684	EdShow   518	Prime   308
7 pm	Shep   1954	Dobbs   760	Matthews   642	Issues   520
8 pm	O’Reilly   3527	Brown   769	Olbermann   739	Grace   853
9 pm	Hannity   2200	King   815	Maddow   661	Behar   559
10 pm	Greta   2092	Cooper   797	Olbermann   423	Grace   550
11 pm	O’Reilly   1437	Cooper   504	Maddow   405	Showbiz   434
TOTAL DAY	1565	581	385	351
PRIME TIME	2609	794	608	644
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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