Live + Same Day Weekend Ratings
Cable News Ratings July 26, 2008
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 676,000 viewers
CNN – 470,000 viewers
MSNBC – 379,000 viewers
CNBC – 134,000 viewers
HLN – 244,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 895,000 viewers
CNN – 574,000 viewers
MSNBC – 533,000 viewers
CNBC – 286,000 viewers
HLN – 310,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC – 164,000 viewers
CNN – 189,000 viewers
MSNBC – 193,000 viewers
CNBC – 53,000 viewers
HLN – 97,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 215,000 viewers
CNN – 262,000 viewers
MSNBC – 324,000 viewers
CNBC – 97,000 viewers
HLN – 111,000 viewers
Cable News Ratings for July 27, 2008
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 694,000 viewers
CNN – 501,000 viewers
MSNBC – 400,000 viewers
CNBC – a scratch with 93,000 viewers
HLN – 237,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,090,000 viewers
CNN – 670,000 viewers
MSNBC – 468,000 viewers
CNBC –173,000 viewers
HLN – 225,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC – 172,000 viewers
CNN – 187,000 viewers
MSNBC –194,000 viewers
CNBC – a scratch with 46,000 viewers
HLN – 109,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 283,000 viewers
CNN – 260,000 viewers
MSNBC –253,000 viewers
CNBC – 78,000 viewers
HLN – 90,000 viewers

Kinda scary that in the key demo, MSNBC's documentary programs beat everyone else doing news or newsish programing in prime time. Are prisons really that interesting?
And CNBC day time on weekends is paid programming, right? how do they go so many people?