Thursday Ratings: Rachel Maddow Wins The Day Among All Cable News Shows In Demo
Nov 9th, 2012, 5:24 pm
Rachel Maddow was the ratings winner of Thursday night, topping not only MSNBC, but Fox News, CNN and HLN as well — in the demo. Among total viewers, she was about 27k shy of beating Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Over at Fox News, Bill O’Reilly topped the network in both demo (about 15k shy of Maddow) and total viewers. The honors went to Piers Morgan at CNN, in both demo and total viewers.
Here are the rest of your Thursday night ratings:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | The5
458 |
Blitzer
162 |
Matthews
388 |
Express
41 |
| 6 pm | Baier
334 |
Blitzer
224 |
Sharpton
445 |
Express 59 |
| 7 pm | Shep
388 |
Burnett
204 |
Matthews
453 |
Velez-Mitchell
96 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
553 |
Cooper
240 |
Schultz
476 |
Grace
91 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
325 |
Morgan
247 |
Maddow
568 |
WWYD
117 |
| 10 pm | Van Susteren
377 |
Cooper
246 |
O’Donnell
499 |
WWYD
89 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
348 |
Burnett
124 |
Schultz
357 |
Showbiz
55 |
| TOTAL DAY | 332 | 177 | 340 | 82 |
| PRIME TIME | 418 | 244 | 514 | 99 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | The5
2.153 |
Blitzer
632 |
Matthews
1.520 |
Express 155 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2.395 |
Blitzer
676 |
Sharpton
1.399 |
Express 210 |
| 7 pm | Smith
2.015 |
Burnett
680 |
Matthews
1.380 |
Velez-Mitchell
259 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2.494 |
Cooper
805 |
Schultz
1.736 |
Grace
281 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
1.836 |
Morgan
870 |
Maddow
1.809 |
WWYD
319 |
| 10 pm | Greta
1.729 |
Cooper
624 |
O’Donnell
1.558 |
WWYD
226 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1.158 |
Burnett
394 |
Schultz
1.045 |
Showbiz
139 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1.497 | 574 | 1.054 | 214 |
| PRIME TIME | 2.026 | 766 | 1.701 | 266 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||



