Piers Morgan Leads All CNN Shows Friday Night, With Nearly One Million Total Viewers
Cable news ratings, July 27, 2011:
•CNN’s Piers Morgan may be getting unwanted attention for his past role as a tabloid newspaper editor–including time at the scandal-tarred and now defunct News of the World–but it’s not hurting his ratings. On Friday night, Piers Morgan Tonight hit a total audience of nearly one million viewers, and had an average audience of 300,000 viewers 25-54. That put the show just behind MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow (356,000), but well behind Fox’s Sean Hannity (531,000). Overall, PMT had the biggest ratings of the night on CNN, beating Anderson Cooper‘s AC 360.
•Among the key viewing group of adults 25-54, Fox’s Hannity edged The O’Reilly Factor Friday night, 531,000 to 509,000 at the top of FNC’s ratings performers. At the other end, The Five fared the worst with 268,000 viewers in the demo, though that was more than enough to win the five o’clock hour easily.
Here’s the full scoreboard:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | The5
268 |
Blitzer
150 |
Matthews
171 |
Special
73 |
| 6 pm | Baier
382 |
Blitzer
146 |
Live
159 |
Prime
109 |
| 7 pm | Shep
335 |
King, USA
158 |
Matthews
211 |
Issues
185 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
509 |
Arena
157 |
O’Donnell
225 |
Grace
206 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
531 |
Morgan
300 |
Maddow
356 |
DrDrew
197 |
| 10 pm | Van Susteren
513 |
Cooper
266 |
Schultz
215 |
Behar
155 |
| 11 pm | Van Susteren
431 |
Cooper
294 |
Lockup
198 |
Showbiz
128 |
| TOTAL DAY | 312 | 169 | 180 | 122 |
| PRIME TIME | 519 | 241 | 265 | 183 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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| 5 pm | The5
1324 |
Blitzer
736 |
Matthews
773 |
Special
343 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1988 |
Blitzer
681 |
Live
776 |
Prime
382 |
| 7 pm | Shep
1496 |
King, USA
629 |
Matthews
775 |
Issues
505 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2466 |
Arena
695 |
O’Donnell
1017 |
Grace
641 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
2103 |
Morgan
997 |
Maddow
1160 |
DrDrew
612 |
| 10 pm | Van Susteren
1714 |
Cooper
853 |
Schultz
686 |
Behar
482 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1067 |
Cooper
712 |
Lockup
440 |
Showbiz
428 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1179 | 545 | 551 | 344 |
| PRIME TIME | 2100 | 848 | 955 | 573 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
