Wolf Blitzer Breaks A Million Viewers, Beats Chris Matthews On Night Of Big News
Cable news ratings, February 10, 2011:
•As Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak teased the world with his will-I-or-won’t-I speech to his nation Thursday, viewership across cable news was up, especially at Wolf Blitzer‘s Situation Room on CNN, which attracted 1,036,000 viewers at 5 p.m., more than enough to put Sit Room into second place ahead of Chris Matthews on MSNBC, but still far behind Glenn Beck on Fox News, which had a total audience of 2,243,000. In terms of viewers 25-54, Blitzer more than doubled Matthews’ audience, 286,000 to 137,000. Beck had 502,000.
•With Egypt driving most of the coverage Thursday, CNN took second place across the board ahead of MSNBC–Parker Spitzer ahead of Lawrence O’Donnell, Piers Morgan beating Rachel Maddow, and Anderson Cooper easily outdistancing Ed Schultz. Fox News, however, dominated the raw numbers in every timeslot, even beating CNN, MSNBC, HLN and CNBC combined in terms of total viewers.
Here’s the full scoreboard:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | Beck
502 |
Blitzer
286 |
Matthews
137 |
Showbiz
34 |
| 6 pm | Baier
524 |
Blitzer
236 |
Live
144 |
Prime
45 |
| 7 pm | Shep
537 |
King, USA
222 |
Matthews
182 |
Issues
78 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
821 |
ParkerSpitzer
196 |
O’Donnell
165 |
Grace
139 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
619 |
Morgan
248 |
Maddow
216 |
Missing
134 |
| 10 pm | Van Susteren
506 |
Cooper
296 |
Schultz
180 |
Behar
130 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
500 |
Cooper
232 |
O’Donnell
118 |
Showbiz
118 |
| TOTAL DAY | 398 | 132 | 137 | 116 |
| PRIME TIME | 649 | 191 | 278 | 145 |
| 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
2243 |
Blitzer
1036 |
Matthews
844 |
Showbiz
115 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2335 |
Blitzer
792 |
Live
592 |
Prime
166 |
| 7 pm | Shep
1936 |
King, USA
690 |
Matthews
677 |
Issues
281 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
3325 |
ParkerSpitzer
724 |
O’Donnell
843 |
Grace
513 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
2293 |
Morgan
941 |
Maddow
765 |
Missing
399 |
| 10 pm | Van Susteren
1744 |
Cooper
826 |
Schultz
575 |
Behar
298 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1353 |
Cooper
624 |
O’Donnell
348 |
Showbiz
286 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1540 | 681 | 534 | 248 |
| PRIME TIME | 2455 | 831 | 728 | 398 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
