Monday Ratings: Nancy Grace Dances Her Way To Second Place at 8 p.m.

Nando Di FinoOct 25th, 2011, 6:17 pm
 

When MSNBC decided to move Lawrence O’Donnell to 10 p.m. and put Ed Schultz in his time slot, they had to be hoping for better results than a third-place finish at 8 p.m., especially on his debut night. But Schultz’s first appearance at 8:00 was merely the side story to Nancy Grace‘s second-place finish in the time slot (for viewers in the 25-54 year-old demo); Grace beat Schultz, 208,000 viewers to 201,000.

While FOX continued to dominate, MSNBC — despite the Schultz slippage — finished ahead of CNN in every time slot. And the night’s only show, on any network, to dip below the 100,000 viewer threshold in the 25-54 demo was the 11 p.m. repeat of Erin Burnett, which pulled in 74,000 viewers in the demo. Dr. Drew came perilously close to joining the club, with 102,000 at 9 p.m.

Some other nuggets from Monday’s numbers:

  • Greta Van Susteren finished first at 10 p.m., although she had the lowest first-run numbers of the night on FOX (an O’Reilly repeat was the lowest). Lawrence O’Donnell finished in second in his first night at 10:00, comfortably beating an Anderson Cooper repeat and a Joy Behar first-run. In fact, O’Donnell was closer to Van Susteren’s numbers than he was to Cooper’s or Behar’s.
  • Chris Matthews and Schultz both topped Rachel Maddow‘s numbers on the MSNBC slate.
  • Piers Morgan‘s first run at 9 p.m. and Cooper’s 10 p.m. repeat were the only CNN shows to not finish in fourth place in their time slots in the 25-54 demo.
  • HLN scored three second-place finishes in the 25-54 demo.


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    Here are the complete cable news ratings for Monday night:

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

    368

    		 Blitzer 

    158

    		 Matthews 

    178

    		 Special 

    199
    6 pm Baier 

    394

    		 King, USA 

    148

    		 Sharpton 

    173

    		 Prime 

    181
    7 pm Shep 

    398

    		 Burnett 

    174

    		 Matthews 

    218

    		 Issues 

    178
    8 pm O’Reilly 

    514

    		 Cooper 

    152

    		 Schultz 

    201

    		 Grace 

    208
    9 pm Hannity 

    405

    		 Piers 

    111

    		 Maddow 

    190

    		 DrDrew 

    102
    10 pm Van Susteren 

    212

    		 Cooper 

    121

    		 O’Donnell 

    182

    		 Behar 

    120
    11 pm O’Reilly 

    191

    		 Burnett 

    74

    		 Schultz 

    136

    		 Showbiz 

    106
    TOTAL DAY 289 129 133 124
    PRIME TIME 377 128 191 140
    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 

    1,592

    		 Blitzer 

    732

    		 Matthews 

    701

    		 Special 

    607
    6 pm Baier 

    2,023

    		 King, USA 

    464

    		 Sharpton 

    655

    		 Prime513
    7 pm Shep 

    1,849

    		 Burnett 

    593

    		 Matthews 

    818

    		 Issues 

    519
    8 pm O’Reilly 

    2,845

    		 Cooper 

    483

    		 Schultz 

    903

    		 Grace 

    535
    9 pm Hannity 

    1,677

    		 Piers 

    393

    		 Maddow 

    880

    		 DrDrew 

    354
    10 pm Greta 

    1,172

    		 Cooper 

    385

    		 O’Donnell
    787    		 Behar 

    460
    11 pm O’Reilly 

    864

    		 Burnett 

    235

    		 Schultz
    447    		 Showbiz 

    347
    TOTAL DAY 1,269 446 496 382
    PRIME TIME 1,901 420 857 440
    Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data
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