Rachel Maddow’s Ratings Skyrocket Past Lawrence O’Donnell’s Tuesday Night

Cable news ratings, July 20, 2010: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:

• Rachel Maddow had the top show on MSNBC Tuesday night, amassing huge ratings in total viewers with the Shirley Sherrod coverage. Her 9pmET show had more than 1,100,000 total viewers while Lawrence O’Donnell, in on Countdown at 8pmET had less than 900,000.

• Campbell Brown had more total viewers than the rest of CNN’s prime time shows. It was her second to last night Tuesday.

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 637	Blitzer 188	Matthews 134	Showbiz 79
6 pm	Baier 359	Blitzer 164	Ed Show 191	Prime 106
7 pm	Shep 423	King, USA 172	Matthews 219	Issues 189
8 pm	O’Reilly 851	Brown 168	Olbermann 252	Grace 200
9 pm	Hannity 525	King 164	Maddow 303	Behar 156
10 pm	Greta 408	Cooper 182	Olbermann 172	Grace 169
11 pm	O’Reilly 501	Cooper 191	Maddow 184	Showbiz 151
TOTAL DAY	341	137	131	132
PRIME TIME	594	171	242	169
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 2402	Blitzer 643	Matthews 608	Showbiz 265
6 pm	Baier 2016	Blitzer 535	Ed Show 745	Prime 262
7 pm	Shep 1625	King, USA 541	Matthews 665	Issues 480
8 pm	O’Reilly 3088	Brown 600	Olbermann 893	Grace 631
9 pm	Hannity 2232	King 560	Maddow 1117	Behar 607
10 pm	Greta 1560	Cooper 485	Olbermann 557	Grace 358
11 pm	O’Reilly 1364	Cooper 407	Maddow 502	Showbiz 373
TOTAL DAY	1170	414	403	316
PRIME TIME	2294	549	856	516
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

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