Friday Ratings: Bret Baier Laps Field In Demo; HLN Likely Misses Casey Anthony Coverage
There was a lot of news to digest last week, and it appears that the ratings winner based on Friday’s ratings was Fox News Bret Baier, who enjoyed more viewers in demo than all of his cable news competitors combined. This high number helped his Fox News cohorts, as even O’Reilly enjoyed good numbers despite a substitute host in Laura Ingraham Monica Crowley.
On the other end of the spectrum is HLN, who likely miss the resolution of the Casey Anthony trial. The national obsession with that particular story was ratings gold for HLN, but their August ratings have dropped to much lower, though not unreasonable ratings. A honeymooning Joy Behar certainly did not help their ratings.
Anderson Cooper‘s transition to the 8pm time has still not yet turned to a ratings boon for CNN, though the rerun at 10pm is getting a decent number, which likely makes the programmers at CNN reasonably happy. Still too early to call the move of AC360 to 8pm a hit yet.
Here are the complete cable news ratings for Friday night:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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 |
 |
 |
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| 5 pm | The5
384 |
Blitzer
129 |
Matthews
171 |
Special
128 |
| 6 pm | Baier
549 |
Blitzer
147 |
Live
149 |
Prime
143 |
| 7 pm | Shep
414 |
King, USA
151 |
Matthews
151 |
Issues
151 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
402 |
Cooper
198 |
O’Donnell
158 |
Grace
182 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
348 |
Morgan
223 |
Maddow
217 |
DrDrew
118 |
| 10 pm | Van Susteren
380 |
Cooper
251 |
Schultz
178 |
Behar
91 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
228 |
CNN Presents
200 |
Lockup
231 |
Showbiz
136 |
| TOTAL DAY | 318 | 148 | 149 | 112 |
| PRIME TIME | 414 | 224 | 224 | 129 |
| 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 | The5
1458 |
Blitzer
497 |
Matthews
660 |
Special
335 |
| 6 pm | Baier
2008 |
Blitzer
470 |
Live
575 |
Prime
403 |
| 7 pm | Shep
1533 |
King, USA
391 |
Matthews
583 |
Issues
510 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
2357 |
Cooper
529 |
O’Donnell
676 |
Grace
580 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
1830 |
Morgan
727 |
Maddow
790 |
DrDrew
441 |
| 10 pm | Reporting
1584 |
Cooper
625 |
Lockup
376 |
Behar
296 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1173 |
CNN Presents
487 |
Lockup
442 |
Showbiz
424 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1258 | 455 | 450 | 333 |
| PRIME TIME | 1926 | 647 | 615 | 443 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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