Nancy Grace Over Campbell Brown: HLN Tops CNN At 8pm

Cable news ratings, August 18, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• HLN’s Nancy Grace jumped past CNN’s Campbell Brown in both total viewers and the A25-54 demographic last night at 8pmET. Grace won by a fairly wide margin in the demo (294,000 to 153,000) and by less in total viewers (746,000 to 613,000). Grace also won by much less on Monday.

• Once again, FNC defeated CNN, MSNBC, HLN and CNBC combined in total viewers and the A25-54 demo during prime time last night.

• The top non-FNC show last night was MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, in both categories. Olbermann averaged 434,000 in the demo – more than several hours of FNC from 5-MidnightET.

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 458	Blitzer 125	Matthews 173	Prime 102
6 pm	Baier 386	Blitzer 126	EdShow 165	Prime 66
7 pm	Shep 371	Dobbs 100	Matthews 282	Issues 132
8 pm	O’Reilly 804	Brown 153	Olbermann 434	Grace 294
9 pm	Hannity 746	King 236	Maddow 393	Issues 111
10 pm	Greta 633	Cooper 175	Olbermann 248	Grace 156
11 pm	O’Reilly 523	Cooper 143	Maddow 253	Showbiz 135
TOTAL DAY	397	134	161	121
PRIME TIME	728	188	359	182
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 2022	Blitzer 607	Matthews 644	Prime 216
6 pm	Baier 1894	Blitzer 568	EdShow 526	Prime 199
7 pm	Shep 1772	Dobbs 421	Matthews 653	Issues 338
8 pm	O’Reilly 3543	Brown 613	Olbermann 1094	Grace 746
9 pm	Hannity 2972	King 886	Maddow 1063	Issues 436
10 pm	Greta 2445	Cooper 646	Olbermann 751	Grace 423
11 pm	O’Reilly 1757	Cooper 404	Maddow 610	Showbiz 286
TOTAL DAY	1593	524	457	273
PRIME TIME	2988	715	970	526
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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