Fox News Dominates Ratings With Health Care Summit Coverage

Cable news ratings, February 25, 2010: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Fox News was the top-rated cable news network, by far, Thursday while covering the Health Care Summit. The network averaged 2,088,000 total viewers from 9:45-5:30pmET, more than the cable competition combined. It was also #1 by more than 100% with 468,000 in the A25-54 demographic. CNN finished solidly in 2nd in both categories.

• The top rated cable news hour was Bill O’Reilly‘s in total viewers, but was MSNBC’s 6pmET Olympics coverage 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	HC Summit/Beck 660/603	Blitzer 318	Olympics Update 194	Prime 66
6 pm	Baier 629	Blitzer 196	Olympics 1129	Prime 103
7 pm	Shep 609	Blitzer 212	Olympics —	Issues 176
8 pm	O’Reilly 923	Brown 250	Olympics —	Grace 274
9 pm	Hannity 749	King 216	Matthews 350	Behar 136
10 pm	Greta 584	Cooper 185	Matthews —	Grace 215
11 pm	O’Reilly 469	Cooper 125	Matthews 207	Showbiz 169
TOTAL DAY	494	181	322	153
PRIME TIME	752	217	755	203
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Health Care Summit/Beck 2663/2462	Blitzer 1719	Olympics Update 563	Prime 167
6 pm	Baier 2491	Blitzer 938	Olympics 2491	Prime 231
7 pm	Shep 2248	Blitzer 860	Olympics —	Issues 451
8 pm	O’Reilly 3493	Brown 773	Olympics —	Grace 873
9 pm	Hannity 2842	King 788	Matthews 1068	Behar 539
10 pm	Greta 2235	Cooper 563	Matthews —	Grace 464
11 pm	O’Reilly 1376	Cooper 303	Matthews 302	Showbiz 349
TOTAL DAY	1912	815	866	350
PRIME TIME	2857	709	755	612
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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