Bill O’Reilly Starts Week With Dominating Ratings

Cable news ratings, February 8, 2010: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• How many people saw Bill O’Reilly call some of the tea partiers “nuts” on Monday night? A massive 4.366 million total viewers, and 1.154 million in the A25-54 demographic. Glenn Beck‘s first show in Los Angeles this week got him 2nd place in both categories.

• The top non-FNC show was Keith Olbermann‘s 8pmET MSNBC program in both categories.

• Anderson Cooper started the week back in Haiti – and was CNN’s best-rated prime time hour in the demo.

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 835	Blitzer 89	Matthews 46	Prime 119
6 pm	Baier 629	Blitzer 109	Ed Show 112	Prime 97
7 pm	Shep 559	Blitzer 158	Matthews 205	Issues 129
8 pm	O’Reilly 1154	Brown 141	Olbermann 302	Grace 245
9 pm	Hannity 734	King 178	Maddow 230	Behar 167
10 pm	Greta 478	Cooper 225	Olbermann 181	Grace 155
11 pm	O’Reilly 448	Cooper 184	Maddow 157	Showbiz 143
TOTAL DAY	455	144	116	155
PRIME TIME	792	181	241	185
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 2858	Blitzer 556	Matthews 457	Prime 246
6 pm	Baier 2671	Blitzer 557	Ed Show 529	Prime 238
7 pm	Shep 2133	Blitzer 524	Matthews 674	Issues 392
8 pm	O’Reilly 4366	Brown 556	Olbermann 1154	Grace 689
9 pm	Hannity 2731	King 946	Maddow 976	Behar 655
10 pm	Greta 1947	Cooper 759	Olbermann 661	Grace 439
11 pm	O’Reilly 1656	Cooper 483	Maddow 458	Showbiz 370
TOTAL DAY	1684	533	433	355
PRIME TIME	3018	754	938	585
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

New: The Mediaite One-Sheet "Newsletter of Newsletters"
Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. Subscribe now!