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) | ||||
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| 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) | ||||
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| 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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