Fox News Dominates Ratings For State Of The Union, Republican Response

Cable news ratings, January 25, 2011:

•Fox News attracted huge numbers of viewers for its coverage of the State of the Union and the Republican Response, with nearly five million total viewers during the president’s speech, and 5.4 million in the next hour, which featured the Republican Response and reaction from Fox News. CNN was second on the night, with 2.9 million total viewers for the SOTU and over 3 million in the following hour. MSNBC trailed CNN by nearly half a million total viewers at 9 p.m. and by nearly 700,000 viewers at 10 p.m. Notably, MSNBC was the only news network to lose viewers between 9 and 10 o’clock.

•On a night when news viewership was up across the board, ratings for CNN’s Situation Room at 5 and 6 p.m. were conspicuously low, with the Wolf Blitzer-led show attracted less than 100,000 viewers in the critical 25-54 demographic in both hours.

Here’s the full scoreboard:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 441	Blitzer 93	Matthews 145	Showbiz 53
6 pm	Baier 404	Blitzer 83	Live 169	Prime 86
7 pm	Shep 471	King, USA 120	Matthews 306	Issues 139
8 pm	O’Reilly 902	SOTU Preview 376	O’Donnell 359	Grace 247
9 pm	SOTU 1634	SOTU 1200	SOTU 836	Missing 134
10 pm	Response 1756	Response 1230	Response 739	Behar 81
11 pm	Van Susteren 613	Cooper 571	O’Donnell 428	Showbiz 95
TOTAL DAY	466	234	214	277
PRIME TIME	1326	860	624	149
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	Beck 1974	Blitzer 476	Matthews 667	Showbiz 162
6 pm	Baier 2067	Blitzer 387	Live 698	Prime 204
7 pm	Shep 1821	King, USA 433	Matthews 893	Issues 416
8 pm	O’Reilly 3373	Preview 1223	O’Donnell 1340	Grace 765
9 pm	SOTU 4960	SOTU 2984	SOTU 2504	Missing 397
10 pm	Response 5444	Response 3010	Response 2357	Behar 298
11 pm	Van Susteren 2109	Cooper 1344	O’Donnell 1146	Showbiz 236
TOTAL DAY	1713	704	721	277
PRIME TIME	4331	2259	1996	474
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data

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