Maddow And Olbermann Team Up For Top Non-FNC Hour Friday Night

Cable news ratings, October 16, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Rachel Maddow‘s 9pmET hour Friday night had the most total viewers of all non-FNC cable news shows. The hour was helped by a phone interview from MSNBC’s 8pmET host, Keith Olbermann, as the pair chatted about former Pres. George H.W. Bush‘s comments about them. Olbermann’s Countdown the hour before was a repeat.

• The top show of the night was Glenn Beck‘s at 5pmET, in total viewers and the A25-54 demographic. Beck had demo viewers than his competition had total viewers.

• The top non-FNC show in the demo was HLN’s Nancy Grace at 8pmET.

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 681	Blitzer 111	Matthews 144	Prime 111
6 pm	Baier 495	Blitzer 138	EdShow 122	Prime 121
7 pm	Shep 415	Dobbs 105	Matthews 172	Issues 160
8 pm	O’Reilly 583	Brown 103	Olbermann 169	Grace 256
9 pm	Hannity 497	King 148	Maddow 238	Behar 190
10 pm	Greta 433	Cooper 206	Olbermann 139	Grace 118
11 pm	O’Reilly 398	Cooper 174	Maddow 161	Showbiz 181
TOTAL DAY	385	152	110	140
PRIME TIME	504	152	182	181
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 2620	Blitzer 640	Matthews 491	Prime 227
6 pm	Baier 2222	Blitzer 578	EdShow 430	Prime 262
7 pm	Shep 1916	Dobbs 423	Matthews 583	Issues 499
8 pm	O’Reilly 2490	Brown 496	Olbermann 688	Grace 734
9 pm	Hannity 2000	King 691	Maddow 937	Behar 536
10 pm	Greta 1673	Cooper 677	Olbermann 410	Grace 410
11 pm	O’Reilly 1327	Cooper 459	Maddow 489	Showbiz 388
TOTAL DAY	1477	552	374	316
PRIME TIME	2055	622	678	548
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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