Greta Tops Beck In Demo Wednesday Night

Cable news ratings, October 21, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• It doesn’t happen very often, even though it used to happen all the time before Glenn Beck joined the network, but the top three programs on cable news last night in the A25-54 demographic were Fox News’ prime time programs, in order. Beck was 4th, just behind Greta Van Susteren at 10pmET.

• The top non-FNC show was, once again, Nancy Grace at 8pmET for HLN in the demo and Keith Olbermann at the same hour for MSNBC in total viewers.

• CNN’s two-hour premiere of Latino in America finished 2nd, behind FNC, in the demo and 3rd in total viewers.

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   626	Blitzer   139	Matthews   116	Prime   138
6 pm	Baier   455	Blitzer   135	EdShow   143	Prime   170
7 pm	Shep   460	Dobbs   153	Matthews   145	Issues   264
8 pm	O’Reilly   984	Brown   172	Olbermann   315	Grace   336
9 pm	Hannity   862	Latino In America   293	Maddow   286	Behar   169
10 pm	Greta   627	Latino In America   293	Olbermann   217	Grace   220
11 pm	O’Reilly   553	Cooper   244	Maddow   168	Showbiz   206
TOTAL DAY	424	175	136	175
PRIME TIME	827	253	273	235
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck   2555	Blitzer   563	Matthews   499	Prime   398
6 pm	Baier   2437	Blitzer   537	EdShow   543	Prime   380
7 pm	Shep   2072	Dobbs   610	Matthews   605	Issues   486
8 pm	O’Reilly   3722	Brown   625	Olbermann   1222	Grace   812
9 pm	Hannity   2722	Latino In America   1007	Maddow   1052	Behar   628
10 pm	Greta   2126	Latino In America   1007	Olbermann   656	Grace   578
11 pm	O’Reilly   1612	Cooper   570	Maddow   455	Showbiz   404
TOTAL DAY	1610	580	443	379
PRIME TIME	2860	880	977	664
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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