Fox News Dominates State Of The Union Cable News Ratings

Cable news ratings, January 27, 2010: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Fox News had the largest cable news audience, by far, last night for the State of the Union, with 5,741,000 total viewers (just more than CNN and MSNBC combined for the speech). They actually improved in the post-speech analysis. In all of prime time, FNC beat CNN/MSNBC/HLN combined in both total viewers and the A25-54 demographic.

• Compared to last year’s address to Congress (the Not State of the Union), FNC is up double digits and CNN and MSNBC were down.

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 764	Blitzer 150	Matthews 69	Prime 89
6 pm	Baier 565	Blitzer 152	Ed Show 97	Prime 114
7 pm	Shep 578	Blitzer 169	Matthews 123	Issues 216
8 pm	O’Reilly 1065	SOTU Preview 364	Olbermann 256	Grace 305
9 pm	State of the Union 1843	State of the Union 1130	State of the Union 758	Behar 184
10 pm	GOP Response 2036	GOP Response 884	GOP Response 611	Grace 236
11 pm	Hannity 1220	Cooper 540	Olbermann 439	Showbiz 210
TOTAL DAY	641	271	172	160
PRIME TIME	1608	804	560	237
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 3140	Blitzer 561	Matthews 550	Prime 183
6 pm	Baier 2681	Blitzer 574	Ed Show 515	Prime 206
7 pm	Shep 2165	Blitzer 572	Matthews 602	Issues 503
8 pm	O’Reilly 4067	Brown 1216	Olbermann 1159	Grace 778
9 pm	State of the Union 5741	State of the Union 3326	State of the Union 2410	Behar 513
10 pm	GOP Response 6383	GOP Response 2609	GOP Response 2031	Grace 467
11 pm	Hannity 3636	Cooper 1636	Olbermann 1510	Showbiz 450
TOTAL DAY	2177	871	644	355
PRIME TIME	5244	2441	1928	570
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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