O’Reilly’s GE Attack Brings in Most Ratings Last Night

Cable news ratings, August 5, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Bill O’Reilly‘s attack of GE helped The O’Reilly Factor to the best ratings on cable news last night. It wasn’t as much as Tuesday night, but still enough for more than triple MSNBC at 8pmET in total viewers.

• Anderson Cooper 360 just edged Larry King Live as the top program for CNN last night in the demo, but LKL was tops in total viewers.

• Countdown with Keith Olbermann was the top show for MSNBC last night in both categories.

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   551	Blitzer   144	Matthews   99	Prime   102
6 pm	Baier   385	Blitzer   162	EdShow   93	Prime   101
7 pm	Shep   364	Dobbs   188	Matthews   170	Issues   117
8 pm	O’Reilly   856	Brown   216	Olbermann   311	Grace   237
9 pm	Hannity   737	King   307	Maddow   288	Issues   131
10 pm	Greta   536	Cooper   309	Olbermann   220	Grace   185
11 pm	O’Reilly   527	Cooper   286	Maddow   166	Showbiz   184
TOTAL DAY	326	208	108	111
PRIME TIME	710	277	273	180
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck   2286	Blitzer   666	Matthews   520	Prime   234
6 pm	Baier   1788	Blitzer   610	EdShow   481	Prime   178
7 pm	Shep   1625	Dobbs   657	Matthews   640	Issues   355
8 pm	O’Reilly   3485	Brown   719	Olbermann   1150	Grace   726
9 pm	Hannity   2587	King   1195	Maddow   1016	Issues   485
10 pm	Greta   2100	Cooper   982	Olbermann   705	Grace   506
11 pm	O’Reilly   1644	Cooper   711	Maddow   409	Showbiz   408
TOTAL DAY	1274	697	386	269
PRIME TIME	2725	965	957	564
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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