Piers Morgan Leads All CNN Shows Friday Night, With Nearly One Million Total Viewers

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by Mark Joyella | 5:53 pm, August 1st, 2011

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Cable news ratings, July 27, 2011:

•CNN’s Piers Morgan may be getting unwanted attention for his past role as a tabloid newspaper editor–including time at the scandal-tarred and now defunct News of the World–but it’s not hurting his ratings. On Friday night, Piers Morgan Tonight hit a total audience of nearly one million viewers, and had an average audience of 300,000 viewers 25-54. That put the show just behind MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow (356,000), but well behind Fox’s Sean Hannity (531,000). Overall, PMT had the biggest ratings of the night on CNN, beating Anderson Cooper‘s AC 360.

•Among the key viewing group of adults 25-54, Fox’s Hannity edged The O’Reilly Factor Friday night, 531,000 to 509,000 at the top of FNC’s ratings performers. At the other end, The Five fared the worst with 268,000 viewers in the demo, though that was more than enough to win the five o’clock hour easily.

Here’s the full scoreboard:

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

5 pm

The5

268

Blitzer

150

Matthews

171

Special

6 pm

Baier

382

Blitzer

146

Live

159

Prime

109

7 pm

Shep

335

King, USA

158

Matthews

211

Issues

185

8 pm

O’Reilly

509

Arena

157

O’Donnell

225

Grace

206

9 pm

Hannity

531

Morgan

300

Maddow

356

DrDrew

197

10 pm

Van Susteren

513

Cooper

266

Schultz

215

Behar

155

11 pm

Van Susteren

431

Cooper

294

Lockup

198

Showbiz

128

TOTAL DAY

312

169

180

122

PRIME TIME

519

241

265

183

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

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)

5 pm

The5

1324

Blitzer

736

Matthews

773

Special

343

6 pm

Baier

1988

Blitzer

681

Live

776

Prime

382

7 pm

Shep

1496

King, USA

629

Matthews

775

Issues

505

8 pm

O’Reilly

2466

Arena

695

O’Donnell

1017

Grace

641

9 pm

Hannity

2103

Morgan

997

Maddow

1160

DrDrew

612

10 pm

Van Susteren

1714

Cooper

853

Schultz

686

Behar

482

11 pm

O’Reilly

1067

Cooper

712

Lockup

440

Showbiz

428

TOTAL DAY

1179

545

551

344

PRIME TIME

2100

848

955

573

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

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

Michelle

I love how FOX wins by a landslide, but that doesn’t make the headline.
Anonymous

Hey, Joyella, good boy for not putting ac in the title unnecessarily but how come you can’t mention Fox? Are you being paid by CNN? Or if you only talk about CNN it still gives you a change to talk about ac while touching your junk with your other hand?
Miss K

i know it has been said many times but it seems like you still don’t get it, so let me say it one more time
FOX isn’t news so naturally it doesn’t need to be mentioned or compared to the other networks
Arkansas Steve

Thank you Missy.
Now that you’ve explained to everyone what NEWS is, you’re ready to feed your cats & watch Nancy Grace.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

It’s not a big deal for Fox becuase it’s everyday. I think Morgan is getting so many peolpe watching now is due to the Murdoc trial. and his tie’s to it.
Anonymous

Hmmmm. That’s odd. Mediaite NEVER mentions the over-all (TOTAL) viewers when referring to Fox, only the “demo”…..

Strange….It’s like they almost favor the other channels. Heh…Go figure….
Michelle

And yet, it’s the most trusted name in NEWS. Suck on that for a while.
def tr

sucking is your job sl*t
real american

real americans love underdogs and that’s what the other news outlets are
Anonymous

“Nearly 1M…”, but not quite.

Close only counts in horseshoes (and grenades).

FNC dominated on July 27th, (and 26th, 25th….28th..29th…for 15 years in a row now).

FNC dominates because people want both sides of the story and the ONLY place to get that is FNC; the rest are all just talking horses/dogs/mutts for team Obama.
ra111

sorry to burst your bubble, but even chris wallace admitted they give the OTHER side of the story
if you think they give both sides of a story and are balanced, YOU might not be balanced
LibelFreeZone

This source tells a different story.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/08/01/cable-news-ratings-for-friday-july-29-2011/99347/
Anonymous

I think it is hilarious that Live with Al Sharpton is getting similar ratings to Chris Matthews yet people in journalism still ask if HE GOT THE JOB BECAUSEOF HIS RACE! Al Sharpton happens to be better than Cenk Uygur, who was atrocious! AGGGHHHHHH
http://www.facebook.com/people/Elizabeth-Sullivan/100000475485926 Elizabeth Sullivan

The title of this story is “PIERS MORGAN LEADS ALL CNN SHOWS”

To make that more clear to the rest of you ignorant morons, this article is talking about CNN shows, not ALL of the shows on ALL of the networks.

If you really want people to think that you aren’t stupid, then at least learn how to read!
jon

morgan news….no maddow news….no behar news…not even close ORielly has more news than these three shows if you combine them