Bill O’Reilly’s Demo Beats Campbell Brown’s Total Last Night

Cable news ratings, August 25, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Bill O’Reilly‘s FNC program topped all cable news shows last night in both the A25-54 demographic and in total viewers. He also had more demo viewers than CNN’s Campbell Brown had total viewers at 8pmET (1,001,000 to 857,000). The Factor had more than 1 million demo viewers for the 5th time this month.

• The top non-FNC program in the demo was Countdown with Keith Olbermann, while CNN’s Larry King Live was #1 in total viewers.

• CNN topped MSNBC in the battle for #2 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 731	Blitzer 105	Matthews 195	Prime 125
6 pm	Baier 453	Blitzer 159	EdShow 182	Prime 101
7 pm	Shep 476	Dobbs 177	Matthews 216	Issues 123
8 pm	O’Reilly 1001	Brown 268	Olbermann 384	Grace 279
9 pm	Hannity 812	King 351	Maddow 226	Issues 177
10 pm	Greta 618	Cooper 218	Olbermann 206	Grace 246
11 pm	O’Reilly 625	Cooper 241	Maddow 135	Showbiz 209
TOTAL DAY	454	165	132	133
PRIME TIME	810	279	272	229
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 2679	Blitzer 527	Matthews 598	Prime 259
6 pm	Baier 2179	Blitzer 552	EdShow 571	Prime 212
7 pm	Shep 1992	Dobbs 643	Matthews 645	Issues 394
8 pm	O’Reilly 3893	Brown 857	Olbermann 1091	Grace 823
9 pm	Hannity 2878	King 1279	Maddow 788	Issues 542
10 pm	Greta 2231	Cooper 699	Olbermann 629	Grace 557
11 pm	O’Reilly 1684	Cooper 641	Maddow 329	Showbiz 432
TOTAL DAY	1637	580	407	310
PRIME TIME	3001	945	836	633
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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