Bill O’Reilly Tops One Million In Demo Again Thursday Night

Cable news ratings, September 17, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Bill O’Reilly was back on top last night, with the top-rated program in the A25-54 demographic and total viewers. He had more than one million demo viewers – no other program had even as many as 900,000. Sean Hannity was #2 in both categories.

• The top non-FNC program was, once again, MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann in both categories.

• FNC had more total viewers than MSNBC, CNN and HLN combined in prime time.

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   734	Blitzer   205	Matthews   156	Prime   117
6 pm	Baier   724	Blitzer   145	EdShow   191	Prime   157
7 pm	Shep   686	Dobbs   212	Matthews   219	Issues   229
8 pm	O’Reilly   1026	Brown   226	Olbermann   388	Grace   376
9 pm	Hannity   871	King   309	Maddow   336	Issues   229
10 pm	Greta   664	Cooper   266	Olbermann   269	Grace   287
11 pm	O’Reilly   638	Cooper   179	Maddow   169	Showbiz   259
TOTAL DAY	492	191	162	184
PRIME TIME	854	267	331	292
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck   3065	Blitzer   753	Matthews   650	Prime   256
6 pm	Baier   2775	Blitzer   554	EdShow   689	Prime   361
7 pm	Shep   2379	Dobbs   631	Matthews   747	Issues   489
8 pm	O’Reilly   3913	Brown   814	Olbermann   1396	Grace   1056
9 pm	Hannity   3166	King   1337	Maddow   1229	Issues   721
10 pm	Greta   2633	Cooper   1011	Olbermann   744	Grace   697
11 pm	O’Reilly   1961	Cooper   552	Maddow   535	Showbiz   517
TOTAL DAY	1819	645	506	398
PRIME TIME	3238	1054	1123	813
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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