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: