CNN’s Finishes 4th in Prime Time Demo For 7th Consecutive Weeknight

Cable news ratings, October 13, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• For the 7th consecutive weekday, CNN finished fourth on cable news in the prime time A25-54 demographic. It was the 77th time CNN finished 4th in that category this year. FNC was way out in front, followed by HLN just edging MSNBC by 1,000 viewers.

• Fox News’ total viewer average during prime time of 2,735,000 beat the other three cable news networks combined. Bill O’Reilly, who had the top show, had more than 1,000,000 in the demo.

• The top non-FNC show was Countdown with Keith Olbermann in both categories at 8pmET for MSNBC.

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   670	Blitzer   193	Matthews   162	Prime   122
6 pm	Baier   561	Blitzer   166	EdShow   142	Prime   90
7 pm	Shep   500	Dobbs   181	Matthews   170	Issues   130
8 pm	O’Reilly   1058	Brown   194	Olbermann   349	Grace   300
9 pm	Hannity   740	King   183	Maddow   281	Behar   249
10 pm	Greta   592	Cooper   216	Olbermann   181	Grace   279
11 pm	O’Reilly   512	Amanpour   203	Maddow   132	Showbiz   240
TOTAL DAY	462	139	145	172
PRIME TIME	798	198	270	271
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck   2849	Blitzer   788	Matthews   580	Prime   236
6 pm	Baier   2339	Blitzer   677	EdShow   567	Prime   290
7 pm	Shep   1998	Dobbs   652	Matthews   731	Issues   403
8 pm	O’Reilly   3694	Brown   794	Olbermann   1191	Grace   835
9 pm	Hannity   2393	King   780	Maddow   913	Behar   495
10 pm	Greta   2113	Cooper   725	Olbermann   589	Grace   540
11 pm	O’Reilly   1651	Amanpour   523	Maddow   387	Showbiz   384
TOTAL DAY	1661	547	457	366
PRIME TIME	2735	766	898	694
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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