Cable news ratings, November 2, 2009: Check out the highlights, and see the full ratings below:
• Bill O’Reilly, once again, had the top show on cable news last night in both total viewers and the A25-54 demographic. In the demo, he was far ahead of the rest of the pack – O’Reilly had 943,000 demo viewers, Glenn Beck was #2 with 643,000.
• The top non-FNC show was Nancy Grace‘s 8pmET HLN hour in the demo and Keith Olbermann‘s 8pmET MSNBC hour in total viewers.
• Some cable news show saw year-long lows last night, with CNN’s Larry King at 9pmET and Anderson Cooper at 10pmET having their worst total viewer average of 2009. We may have to blame the World Series a little bit – Sean Hannity‘s total viewer average at 9pmET for Fox News was lower than Bret Baier at 6pmET and Shepard Smith at 7pmET.
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 643 | Blitzer 141 | Matthews 117 | Prime 98 |
| 6 pm | Baier 493 | Blitzer 103 | EdShow 151 | Prime 105 |
| 7 pm | Shep 505 | Dobbs 146 | Matthews 178 | Issues 175 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly 943 | Brown 191 | Olbermann 246 | Grace 327 |
| 9 pm | Hannity 536 | King 160 | Maddow 310 | Behar 148 |
| 10 pm | Greta 374 | Cooper 105 | Olbermann 207 | Grace 168 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly 368 | Cooper 76 | Maddow 126 | Showbiz 159 |
| TOTAL DAY | 379 | 130 | 122 | 146 |
| PRIME TIME | 619 | 152 | 254 | 209 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
| 5 pm | Beck 2849 | Blitzer 761 | Matthews 528 | Prime 279 |
| 6 pm | Baier 2283 | Blitzer 520 | EdShow 539 | Prime 252 |
| 7 pm | Shep 2200 | Dobbs 675 | Matthews 669 | Issues 478 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly 3276 | Brown 554 | Olbermann 955 | Grace 721 |
| 9 pm | Hannity 1914 | King 451 | Maddow 854 | Behar 291 |
| 10 pm | Greta 1462 | Cooper 396 | Olbermann 561 | Grace 413 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly 1216 | Cooper 296 | Maddow 383 | Showbiz 328 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1515 | 507 | 398 | 315 |
| PRIME TIME | 2219 | 467 | 790 | 462 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||