With Focus On Wisconsin, MSNBC Averages 1.1 Million Total Viewers Tuesday Night
Cable news ratings, August 9, 2011:
•MSNBC was live until well past midnight Tuesday with coverage of the Wisconsin recall election, leading the network to a second place finish overall and an average of more than 1.1 million total viewers in primetime. Ed Schultz, who was live from Wisconsin, had 1.137 million total viewers. Rachel Maddow had 1.231 million total viewers at 9 p.m., and was live again at midnight.
Overall, Fox News remained comfortably in first place, with an average audience of nearly 2.5 total viewers in primetime. Cable news’ top show on the night was The O’Reilly Factor, which had a total audience of more than 3.3 million viewers.
•Among total viewers, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer narrowly beat his colleague Piers Morgan for the network’s highest rated program Tuesday, with Situation Room attracting 738,000 viewers–just 1,000 ahead of Piers Morgan Tonight‘s 737,000.
Here’s the full scoreboard:
| TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L +SD) | ||||
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 |
 |
 |
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| 5 pm | The5
394 |
Blitzer
174 |
Matthews
141 |
Special
109 |
| 6 pm | Baier
433 |
Blitzer
168 |
Live
194 |
Prime
115 |
| 7 pm | Shep
578 |
King, USA
147 |
Matthews
200 |
Issues
176 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
806 |
Cooper
228 |
O’Donnell
244 |
Grace
192 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
569 |
Morgan
236 |
Maddow
368 |
DrDrew
184 |
| 10 pm | Van Susteren
445 |
Cooper
200 |
Schultz
355 |
Behar
123 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
435 |
Cooper
149 |
O’Donnell
266 |
Showbiz
119 |
| TOTAL DAY | 341 | 156 | 150 | 103 |
| PRIME TIME | 606 | 221 | 324 | 163 |
| 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
1574 |
Blitzer
738 |
Matthews
797 |
Special
313 |
| 6 pm | Baier
1960 |
Blitzer
613 |
Live
686 |
Prime
415 |
| 7 pm | Shep
1992 |
King, USA
510 |
Matthews
812 |
Issues
532 |
| 8 pm | O’Reilly
3313 |
Cooper
604 |
O’Donnell
995 |
Grace
742 |
| 9 pm | Hannity
2341 |
Morgan
737 |
Maddow
1231 |
DrDrew
577 |
| 10 pm | Van Susteren
1805 |
Cooper
580 |
Schultz
1137 |
Behar
463 |
| 11 pm | O’Reilly
1283 |
Cooper
396 |
O’Donnell
978 |
Showbiz
368 |
| TOTAL DAY | 1266 | 447 | 555 | 313 |
| PRIME TIME | 2491 | 640 | 1124 | 585 |
| Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data | ||||
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