Thursday’s Ratings: Jump For Joy!

Late Wednesday night, Deadline broke news that Joy Behar would be leaving her show on HLN at the end of the year. And boy, did it do wonders for her ratings. Behar attracted 198,000 viewers in the 25-54 year-old demo. The show still finished fourth, but it was a marked jump from her previous numbers — Behar had averaged 97,000 demo viewers over her previous 10 shows. The jump may have just been from curiosity-seekers, but it was a jump, nonetheless, and Behar’s show was the highest-rated on the HLN slate Thursday night.

Some more exciting numbers-based trivia:

Average Time Slot Finish:
Fox News: 1
MSNBC: 2.3
CNN: 3
HLN: 3.7

Here are the complete cable news ratings for Thursday night:

TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  354	Blitzer  139	Matthews  157	Special  67
6 pm	Baier  441	King, USA  117	Sharpton  149	Prime  58
7 pm	Shep  427	Burnett  147	Matthews  173	Issues  114
8 pm	O’Reilly  667	Cooper  140	Schultz  181	Grace  193
9 pm	Hannity  528	Piers  168	Maddow  262	Dr. Drew  148
10 pm	Van Susteren  341	Cooper  210	O’Donnell  234	Behar  198
11 pm	O’Reilly  279	Burnett  148	Schultz  135	Showbiz  112
TOTAL DAY	321	138	132	104
PRIME TIME	514	173	226	176
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

TV NEWS RATINGS: TOTAL VIEWERS (L +SD)
5 pm	The5  1,610	Blitzer  665	Matthews  776	Special  212
6 pm	Baier  2,051	King, USA  470	Sharpton  774	Prime 281
7 pm	Shep  1,909	Burnett  434	Matthews  881	Issues  379
8 pm	O’Reilly  3,166	Cooper  496	Schultz  999	Grace  562
9 pm	Hannity  2,188	Piers  782	Maddow  994	DrDrew  463
10 pm	Greta  1,670	Cooper  732	O’Donnell 806	Behar  529
11 pm	O’Reilly  1,074	Burnett  407	Schultz 466	Showbiz  295
TOTAL DAY	1,386	498	541	276
PRIME TIME	2,346	670	933	511
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data