FNC #1, CNN #2 In Prime Time Friday Night

Cable news ratings, December 11, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• In a month that saw CNN finish fourth place in prime time during 2009 for the 100th time in the A25-54 demographic, Friday night came as a big victory – 2nd place, behind Fox News, in both total viewers and the demo. Larry King at 9pmET and Anderson Cooper at 10pmET finished 2nd in the time slot in both categories.

• The top cable news show on Friday was FNC’s The O’Reilly Factor in both categories. Laura Ingraham filled in for Bill O’Reilly.

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   576	Blitzer   113	Matthews   94	Prime   100
6 pm	Baier   415	Blitzer   83	EdShow   88	Prime   105
7 pm	Shep   461	Tonight   102	Matthews   111	Issues   151
8 pm	O’Reilly   655	Brown   126	Olbermann   209	Grace   270
9 pm	Hannity   529	King   226	Maddow   153	Behar   153
10 pm	Greta   469	Cooper   252	Olbermann   161	Grace   126
11 pm	O’Reilly   388	Cooper   176	Maddow   155	Showbiz   118
TOTAL DAY	369	142	110	133
PRIME TIME	555	202	175	175
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck   2267	Blitzer   641	Matthews   499	Prime   278
6 pm	Baier   2096	Blitzer   504	EdShow   516	Prime   275
7 pm	Shep   2016	Tonight   521	Matthews   494	Issues   392
8 pm	O’Reilly   2569	Brown   551	Olbermann   827	Grace   744
9 pm	Hannity   1982	King   865	Maddow   706	Behar   486
10 pm	Greta   1866	Cooper   811	Olbermann   474	Grace   427
11 pm	O’Reilly   1264	Cooper   542	Maddow   430	Showbiz   396
TOTAL DAY	1365	565	376	336
PRIME TIME	2145	743	669	539
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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