Fox’s Greta Van Susteren Puts Distance Between On The Record And Cable News Competition
Cable news ratings, May 18, 2011:
•Fox’s Greta Van Susteren jumped away from the competition at 10 p.m., with an average 461,000 viewers 25-54 Wednesday night. That put On the Record easily into first place for the hour, and more than 200,000 viewers ahead of the second place finisher, Ed Schultz at MSNBC (251,000). CNN’s Anderson Cooper was third with 234,000.
Among Fox shows, Van Susteren’s ratings were strong enough in the demo to put OTR into third place overall, behind the network’s powerhouse programs O’Reilly Factor and Hannity.
•CNN’s In the Arena was among the lowest-rated cable news programs on any of the three major cable news networks Wednesday, with 127,000 viewers 25-54. That put the Eliot Spitzer led show in fourth place for the 8 p.m. hour, behind Fox’s Bill O’Reilly, whose show outperformed all the competition combined in terms of viewers 25-54.
Here’s the full scoreboard:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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 |
 |
 |
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| 5 pm | Beck
317 |
Blitzer
186 |
Matthews
192 |
Special
85 |
| 6 pm | Baier
393 |
Blitzer
168 |
Live
122 |
Prime
95 |
| 7 pm | Shep
441 |
King, USA
140 |
Matthews
218 |
Issues
145 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
671 |
InTheArena
127 |
O’Donnell
254 |
Grace
150 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
509 |
Morgan
162 |
Maddow
273 |
DrDrew
81 |
| 10 pm | Van Susteren
461 |
Cooper
234 |
Schultz
251 |
Behar
137 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
348 |
Cooper
248 |
O’Donnell
204 |
Showbiz
103 |
| TOTAL DAY | 336 | 160 | 172 | 98 |
| PRIME TIME | 547 | 173 | 259 | 120 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data. | ||||
| TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD) | ||||
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|
|
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| 5 pm | Beck
1711 |
Blitzer
672 |
Matthews
768 |
Special
238 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1989 |
Blitzer
545 |
Live
591 |
Prime
291 |
| 7 pm | Shep
1703 |
King, USA
483 |
Matthews
699 |
Issues
479 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2811 |
InTheArena
525 |
O’Donnell
1003 |
Grace
655 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
2027 |
Morgan
640 |
Maddow
899 |
DrDrew
214 |
| 10 pm | Van Susteren
1880 |
Cooper
718 |
Schultz
802 |
Behar
502 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1268 |
Cooper
568 |
O’Donnell
532 |
Showbiz
328 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1347 | 501 | 539 | 275 |
| PRIME TIME | 2241 | 622 | 902 | 450 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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