Friday Ratings: A Good Night For HLN’s Vinnie Politan…And Porn

Nando Di FinoNov 7th, 2011, 6:10 pm
 

Vinnie Politan, host of HLN’s Prime News, rebounded nicely from a Tuesday night low of 45,000 viewers in the 25-54 year-old demo to capture his second straight second-place finish in the 6 p.m. time slot, besting Al Sharpton and John King with 208,000 demo viewers on Friday night (he pulled an impressive 204,000 on Thursday). In fact, Politan’s demo numbers were behind just Rachel Maddow‘s for the highest among non-FOX News shows. He had better numbers than any show on HLN and CNN, and even took down the mighty MSNBC late-night specials among the 25-54 year olds.

Other fun from Friday:

  • With 158,000 viewers in the demo on Friday, Erin Burnett made it an entire week of growing off John King‘s lead-in. She also beat Chris Matthews at 7 p.m., but fell into third behind Shepard Smith and Jane Velez-Mitchell. Her replay at 11 p.m., however, put her in second place in that time slot.
  • We don’t usually get into the CNBC ratings, but their Porn: Business of Pleasure special at 10 p.m. drew 148,000 viewers in the demo. It would have finished in third place, behind Greta Van Susteren and Anderson Cooper.
  • FOX News once again ruled in every time slot, while HLN grabbed three silvers at 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 7 p.m., CNN took second at 8 p.m., 10 p.m., and 11 p.m., and MSNBC finished second at 9 p.m.

    • The rest of your Friday night ratings:

  • TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
    Fox News CNN MSNBC CNN Headline News
    5 pm The5 

    363

    		 Blitzer 

    105

    		 Matthews 

    130

    		 Special 

    201
    6 pm Baier 

    442

    		 King, USA 

    99

    		 Sharpton 

    127

    		 Prime 

    208
    7 pm Shep 

    436

    		 Burnett 

    158

    		 Matthews 

    155

    		 Issues 

    171
    8 pm O’Reilly 

    526

    		 Cooper 

    192

    		 Schultz 

    190

    		 Grace 

    140
    9 pm Hannity 

    436

    		 Piers 

    127

    		 Maddow 

    251

    		 Dr. Drew 

    113
    10 pm Van Susteren 

    361

    		 Cooper 

    161

    		 MSNBC Investigates 

    139

    		 Behar 

    124
    11 pm O’Reilly 

    357

    		 Burnett 

    150

    		 MSNBC Investigates 

    147

    		 Showbiz 

    86
    TOTAL DAY 316 124 131 116
    PRIME TIME 441 160 193 126
    Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.
    TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
    Fox News CNN MSNBC CNN Headline News
    5 pm The5 

    1,589

    		 Blitzer 

    539

    		 Matthews 

    675

    		 Special 

    130
    6 pm Baier 

    2,063

    		 King, USA 

    458

    		 Sharpton 

    629

    		 Prime
    633
    7 pm Shep 

    1,850

    		 Burnett 

    592

    		 Matthews 

    663

    		 Issues 

    555
    8 pm O’Reilly 

    2,911

    		 Cooper 

    637

    		 Schultz 

    832

    		 Grace 

    479
    9 pm Hannity 

    1,926

    		 Piers 

    612

    		 Maddow 

    1,046

    		 DrDrew 

    447
    10 pm Greta 

    1,526

    		 Cooper 

    501

    		 MSNBC Investigates
    314    		 Behar 

    394
    11 pm O’Reilly 

    1,022

    		 Burnett 

    389

    		 MSNBC Investigates 

    307

    		 Showbiz 

    294
    TOTAL DAY 1,251 433 433 345
    PRIME TIME 2,127 583 731 437
    Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data
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