O’Reilly/Palin Interview Brings Huge Ratings; CNN’s Haiti Coverage Tops MSNBC In Prime

Cable news ratings, January 12, 2010: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Sarah Palin‘s first appearance on Fox News as an official member of the team brought in enormous ratings for The O’Reilly Factor, the top cable news program Tuesday night. Bill O’Reilly had nearly one million viewers in the A25-54 demographic and four million in total viewers – more than the program brought in when Palin was on the last time, and topping some network programs (on ABC) in total viewers.

• CNN’s steady coverage Tuesday night of the Haiti disaster made it the #2 show in total viewers and the demo, topping MSNBC significantly. FNC was #1 by far. The top non-FNC show in the demo was Anderson Cooper at 10pmET and in total viewers was Larry King at 9pmET.

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 732	Blitzer 143	Matthews 124	Prime 151
6 pm	Baier 482	Blitzer 261	Ed Show 157	Prime 243
7 pm	Shep 605	Tonight 358	Matthews 214	Issues 258
8 pm	O’Reilly 993	Brown 284	Olbermann 271	Grace 271
9 pm	Hannity 637	King 328	Maddow 203	Behar 175
10 pm	Greta 665	Cooper 419	Olbermann 167	Grace 213
11 pm	O’Reilly 713	Cooper 327	Maddow 108	Showbiz 142
TOTAL DAY	451	183	119	164
PRIME TIME	766	344	214	215
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 2566	Blitzer 644	Matthews 520	Prime 259
6 pm	Baier 2298	Blitzer 949	Ed Show 583	Prime 207
7 pm	Shep 2411	Tonight 1135	Matthews 701	Issues 509
8 pm	O’Reilly 3954	Brown 999	Olbermann 906	Grace 704
9 pm	Hannity 2594	King 1162	Maddow 813	Behar 652
10 pm	Greta 2251	Cooper 1147	Olbermann 557	Grace 403
11 pm	O’Reilly 2136	Cooper 772	Maddow 346	Showbiz 327
TOTAL DAY	1677	629	412	164
PRIME TIME	2936	1105	759	215
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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