Glenn Beck’s Massa-cre Finishes Second In Ratings

Cable news ratings, March 9, 2010: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Bill O’Reilly just edged his colleague Glenn Beck on Tuesday for the top-rated cable news show. Beck had his much-talked about hour-long interview with former Rep. Eric Massa, but the tickle fight conversation was beat by less than 100,000 viewers in the demo and total.

• The top non-FNC show was Countdown on MSNBC in both categories, still hosted by Lawrence O’Donnell. It reached the one million total viewer mark as well.

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 860	Blitzer 116	Matthews 97	Prime 95
6 pm	Baier 501	Blitzer 109	Ed Show 135	Prime 83
7 pm	Shep 541	Blitzer 139	Matthews 142	Issues 148
8 pm	O’Reilly 925	Brown 157	Olbermann 257	Grace 199
9 pm	Hannity 733	King 169	Maddow 251	Behar 193
10 pm	Greta 477	Cooper 182	Olbermann 248	Grace 156
11 pm	O’Reilly 434	Cooper 134	Matthews 132	Showbiz 128
TOTAL DAY	425	114	114	137
PRIME TIME	712	169	252	178
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 3406	Blitzer 527	Matthews 424	Prime 188
6 pm	Baier 2686	Blitzer 504	Ed Show 528	Prime 186
7 pm	Shep 2243	Blitzer 502	Matthews 543	Issues 370
8 pm	O’Reilly 3499	Brown 527	Olbermann 1004	Grace 698
9 pm	Hannity 2901	King 699	Maddow 994	Behar 785
10 pm	Greta 2027	Cooper 582	Olbermann 729	Grace 457
11 pm	O’Reilly 1405	Cooper 384	Matthews 378	Showbiz 377
TOTAL DAY	1673	451	418	316
PRIME TIME	2809	602	909	638
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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