On Friday Night, Highest-Rated Non-Fox Cable News Show (In Demo)…Was MSNBC’s Lockup

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by Mark Joyella | 8:48 pm, April 18th, 2011

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Cable news ratings, April 15, 2011:

•The big news that sent cable news viewership skyrocketing in recent weeks has cooled…and Friday nights have reverted to form, with MSNBC’s true-life prison documentary series Lockup beating all non-Fox News shows on MSNBC and CNN Friday night among viewers 25-54. The show’s 11 p.m. airing attracted 279,000 viewers, better than Rachel Maddow‘s 260,000 and CNN’s top performer Friday, Wolf Blitzer, who had 238,000.

•At Fox, Bill O’Reilly had cable news’ top show, with 619,000 viewers 25-54, but Greta Van Susteren (395,000) was third, edging out Glenn Beck (376,000).

Here’s the full scoreboard:

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

5 pm

Beck

376

Blitzer

238

Matthews

143

Showbiz

6 pm

Baier

302

Blitzer

165

Live

143

Prime

7 pm

Shep

339

King, USA

120

Matthews

183

Issues

125

8 pm

O’Reilly

619

InTheArena

107

O’Donnell

253

Grace

188

9 pm

Hannity

538

Morgan

162

Maddow

260

DrDrew

10 pm

Van Susteren

395

Cooper

167

Lockup

240

Behar

11 pm

O’Reilly

343

Cooper

110

Lockup

279

Showbiz

TOTAL DAY

297

159

155

100

PRIME TIME

519

145

251

123

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

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)

5 pm

Beck

1795

Blitzer

641

Matthews

673

Showbiz

6 pm

Baier

1683

Blitzer

461

Live

598

Prime

231

7 pm

Shep

1571

King, USA

451

Matthews

602

Issues

318

8 pm

O’Reilly

2461

InTheArena

435

O’Donnell

1029

Grace

586

9 pm

Hannity

2181

Morgan

492

Maddow

928

DrDrew

273

10 pm

Van Susteren

1568

Cooper

616

Lockup

422

Behar

288

11 pm

O’Reilly

1039

Cooper

331

Lockup

486

Showbiz

254

TOTAL DAY

1567

744

632

216

PRIME TIME

2569

1072

1153

297

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

cable news ratings, CNN, fnc, fox news, HLN, lockup, msnbc

SmartAlec

Is this a new category – Non-Fox shows?
Moderate

“MSNBC’s Lockup”

Obama is in big trouble, the kids have lost interest in current events and prefer watching someone worse off than they are.
Moderate

“Non-Fox shows?”

Mediaite declared Fox unbeatable long ago and now concentrate on the “also rans”.
Barack Must Go

Moderate said:
“MSNBC’s Lockup”

Obama is in big trouble, the kids have lost interest in current events and prefer watching someone worse off than they are.

Watching that program is the only way a lot of today’s liberal, hipster kids will ever get to see their dads, or at least who their mom thinks might be their dad.
BeckFinallyDemoted

O’Reilly got a little more than double O’Donnell in the demo.
He used to get triple and brag about it on-air.

Fox has peaked.
WCinWI

Lockup even beats all of the rest of MSNC and CNN programming.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Probably NOT wrong

I love the smell of libs burning in the mornings after
ratings are posted.

Looks like Chink missed another payment!
writer

Imagine the ratings if MSNBC would replace all their opinion shows with Cops!
Zakk

MSNBC – take the hint. You are good at documentaries and not news. Just stop trying, go with what you know. Child molesters and prisons.
Sean68

writer said:
Imagine the ratings if MSNBC would replace all their opinion shows with Cops!

How about giving the guy who eats brains an opinion show?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJMHPstfl1o
BadGenome

Sean68 said:
How about giving the guy who eats brains an opinion show?

They already did. It’s called The Ed Show.