On Lou Dobbs’ Last Night, CNN Finishes 5th In Prime Time Demo
Cable news ratings, November 11, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:
• On a night that Lou Dobbs said goodbye the hour before, CNN finished in 5th place – behind Fox News, MSNBC, HLN and CNBC – in the prime time A25-54 demographic. This was only the 2nd time in 2009 the network finished 5th, with the first time coming in March. Dobbs’ 7pmET hour finished 4th in the demo and 3rd in total viewers.
• The top show on cable news was, once again, Bill O’Reilly’s 8pmET in both total viewers and the demo. Glenn Beck’s return to the airwaves gave him 2nd place in both.
• Larry King was not helped by an awkward interview with Carrie Prejean – his hour was the lowest for CNN in the prime time demo.
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
742 |
Blitzer
103 |
Matthews
139 |
Prime
100 |
| 6 pm | Baier
556 |
Blitzer
127 |
EdShow
178 |
Prime
108 |
| 7 pm | Shep
572 |
Dobbs
153 |
Matthews
201 |
Issues
183 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
1042 |
Brown
174 |
Olbermann
413 |
Grace
294 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
714 |
King
156 |
Maddow
270 |
Behar
162 |
| 10 pm | Greta
486 |
Cooper
174 |
Olbermann
298 |
Grace
215 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
491 |
Cooper
169 |
Maddow
220 |
Showbiz
192 |
| TOTAL DAY | 436 | 144 | 141 | 162 |
| PRIME TIME | 749 | 168 | 327 | 220 |
| 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
2837 |
Blitzer
624 |
Matthews
558 |
Prime
193 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2247 |
Blitzer
570 |
EdShow
516 |
Prime
236 |
| 7 pm | Shep
2132 |
Dobbs
641 |
Matthews
661 |
Issues
520 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
3647 |
Brown
692 |
Olbermann
1236 |
Grace
815 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
2609 |
King
633 |
Maddow
1143 |
Behar
527 |
| 10 pm | Greta
1942 |
Cooper
572 |
Olbermann
812 |
Grace
427 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1658 |
Cooper
616 |
Maddow
588 |
Showbiz
370 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1620 | 610 | 471 | 331 |
| PRIME TIME | 2735 | 632 | 1063 | 581 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
6 comments
All CNN had to offer the public before last night was Lou Dobbs and Wolf Blitzer.Today all they have is Wolf Blitzer. Wolf would be a lot better off if he did away with the moron Jack Cafferty. The rest of CNN’s showtime personalities, masquerading as news reporters and jounalists are, like Jack, so obviously slanted to the liberal left that they should be banshed to a Communist country or imprisoned. FOX RULES!!!!
These are the same folks who rushed to show us video of an Iraqi insurgent’s sniper’s-eye view as he shot an American soldier through the head, claiming that it was relevant to their reportage.
The same clowns who clamored to alert us to the “terrorist boat attack” on the Potomac.
An outfit whose “reporter” (Susan Something?) berated a Tea Party attendee on-camera for his views on healthcare reform because they differed from her own (how very professional!)
The organization that allowed one of its own anchors to vilify Limbaugh for his supposed (undocumented-to-this-date) “racist” comments, failing to mention in the anchor’s “character assessment” that he himself was once involved in a hit-and-run accident.
All this from a group whose chief anchor came in dead-last in an August episode of “Jeopardy”, losing to a comedian and a semi-retired actress.
And the best they can come up with for the 25-36 demog is a “renowned journalist” like Anderson Cooper?
And they’re wondering why they’re in the ratings basement?
This is merely a prelude to their ultimate, and I would suggest, well-deserved demise.
The day that happens will be a delightful one for millions of us around the country.
Subtract out the viewers forced to watch CNN which seems to have a corner on waiting room and airport TV’s and you see how utterly irrelevant they have become. The Cartoon Network is more insightful. Why are the shareholders not rising up? Do CNN business shows ever cover the ratings as a factor in investment?
Come back, Lou…come back!! You had finally reached that point where “in” is added to “sane.”
Nachi has reached the point where “un” is added to “intelligent.”
“This is merely a prelude to their ultimate, and I would suggest, well-deserved demise.
The day that happens will be a delightful one for millions of us around the country.”
Yes, less choice is better. Let’s all watch Fox! It will be just like Pravda in Soviet Russia! What fun.
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