Monday Ratings: Al Sharpton Follows His SNL Lampooning With A Nice Boost

Nando Di FinoDec 13th, 2011, 5:36 pm
 

Perhaps it was a boost from Saturday Night Live lampooning his show and curiosity-seekers tuning in to see what it was all about — or maybe it was simply just his turn to rise up in the ratings — but Al Sharpton tied for MSNBC’s ratings lead on Monday night in the 25-54 year old demo, pulling in 191,000 viewers at his 6 p.m. time slot. Ed Schultz, who goes on air at 8 p.m., tied Sharpton’s demo numbers (while beating him in the overall ratings, 877,000 to 830,000).

Other nuggets from Monday night:

  • On the flip side of MSNBC’s fortunes was Rachel Maddow, who had a relatively weak night, drawing 132,000 demo viewers. This allowed Piers Morgan to take second place in the time slot, with 161,000 in the demo.
  • Nancy Grace continued her strong run, leading HLN’s slate and attracting 204,000 demo viewers at 8p.m.
  • On Friday it was Bret Baier, and Monday it was The Five, pulling into third place overall in the ratings behind Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.
  • Greta Van Susteren attracted 315,000 demo viewers and 1,440,000 overall.

    • The rest of your Monday night ratings:

    TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
    Fox News CNN MSNBC CNN Headline News
    5 pm The5 

    384

    		 Blitzer 

    106

    		 Matthews 

    126

    		 Special 

    85
    6 pm Baier 

    354

    		 King, USA 

    58

    		 Sharpton 

    191

    		 Prime 

    90
    7 pm Shep 

    343

    		 Burnett 

    109

    		 Matthews 

    183

    		 Issues 

    105
    8 pm O’Reilly 

    639

    		 Cooper 

    246

    		 Schultz 

    191

    		 Grace 

    204
    9 pm Hannity 

    542

    		 Piers 

    161

    		 Maddow 

    132

    		 Dr. Drew 

    93
    10 pm Van Susteren 

    315

    		 Cooper 

    122

    		 O’Donnell 

    129

    		 Joy Behar 

    122
    11 pm O’Reilly 

    326

    		 Burnett 

    148

    		 Schultz 

    96

    		 Showbiz 

    99
    TOTAL DAY 260 103 111 87
    PRIME TIME 499 176 137 137
    Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.
    TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
    Fox News CNN MSNBC CNN Headline News
    5 pm The5 

    1,716

    		 Blitzer 

    562

    		 Matthews 

    731

    		 Special 

    198
    6 pm Baier 

    2,030

    		 King, USA 

    431

    		 Sharpton 

    830

    		 Prime 

    243
    7 pm Shep 

    1,666

    		 Burnett 

    402

    		 Matthews 

    797

    		 Issues 

    346
    8 pm O’Reilly 

    3,271

    		 Cooper 

    634

    		 Schultz 

    877

    		 Grace 

    696
    9 pm Hannity 

    2,168

    		 Piers 

    604

    		 Maddow 

    722

    		 DrDrew 

    446
    10 pm Greta 

    1,440

    		 Cooper 

    401

    		 O’Donnell 

    687

    		 Behar 

    323
    11 pm O’Reilly 

    1,087

    		 Burnett 

    334

    		 Schultz 

    399

    		 Showbiz 

    265
    TOTAL DAY 1,183 376 430 235
    PRIME TIME 2,295 546 762 480
    Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data
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