Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for November 19, 2009
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,465,000 viewers
CNN – 491,000 viewers
MSNBC –375,000 viewers
CNBC – 225,000 viewers
HLN –306,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 3,035,000 viewers
CNN – 753,000 viewers
MSNBC –883,000 viewers
CNBC – 274,000 viewers
HLN –718,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC –380,000 viewers
CNN –135,000 viewers
MSNBC –106,000 viewers
CNBC – 81,000 viewers
HLN- 140,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 795,000 viewers
CNN – 222,000 viewers
MSNBC –255,000 viewers
CNBC – 145,000 viewers
HLN – 264,000 viewers
35-64 Total Day
FNC – 697,000 viewers
CNN – 201,000 viewers
MSNBC – 186,000 viewers
CNBC – 119,000 viewers
HLN – 180,000 viewers
35-64 Prime Time
FNC –1,397,000 viewers
CNN – 334,000 viewers
MSNBC –422,000 viewers
CNBC – 166,000 viewers
HLN –370,000 viewers
Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX & Friends- 1,122,000 viewers (418,000) (734,000)
American Morning- 394,000 viewers (154,000) (191,000)
Morning Joe- 313,000 viewers (104,000) (184,000)
Squawk Box- 141,000 viewers (50,000) (84,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 249,000 viewers (149,000) (213,000)
5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,730,000 viewers (689,000) (1,266,000)
Situation Room—627,000 viewers (138,000) (186,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—554,000 viewers (108,000) (275,000)
Fast Money—248,000 viewers (63,000) (114,000)
Prime News–261,000 viewers (126,000) (169,000)
6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Special Report with Bret Baier– 2,359,000 viewers (525,000) (1,004,000)
Situation Room—617,000 viewers (118,000) (177,000)
Ed Show—540,000 viewers (102,000) (255,000)
Mad Money —242,000 viewers (87,000) (127,000)
Prime News — 280,000 viewers (121,000) (154,000)
7PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The Fox Report w/ Shep –2,078,000 viewers (477,000) (847,000)
CNN Tonight—578,000 viewers (148,000) (224,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews—597,000 viewers (175,000) (283,000)
Kudlow Report — 241,000 viewers (71,000) (130,000)
Issues– 450,000 viewers (195,000) (272,000)
8PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor– 4,120,000 viewers (1,069,000) (1,880,000)
Campbell Brown – 695,000 viewers (193,000) (272,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 1,188,000 viewers (316,000) (595,000)
Coca-Cola: The Real Story – 281,000 viewers (168,000) (183,000)
Nancy Grace – 1,018,000 viewers (359,000) (504,000)
9 PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity –2,871,000 viewers (744000) (1,288,000)
Larry King Live —980,000 viewers (258,000) (425,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —877,000 viewers (240,000) (390,000)
Oprah Effect — 275,000 viewers (153,000) (160,000)
Joy Behar- 654,000 viewers (188,000) (310,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On The Record w/ Greta —2,113,000 viewers (571,000) (1,022,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 585,000 viewers (216,000) (305,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 584,000 viewers (208,000) (281,000)
Bio: Rachael Ray – 265,000 viewers (115,000) (154,000)
Nancy Grace –522,000 viewers (259,000) (314,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor —1,691,000 viewers (519,000) (867,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 462,000 viewers (151,000) (238,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —382,000 viewers (127,000) (207,000)
Mad Money – a scratch w/90,000 viewers (a scratch w/34,000) (72,000)
Showbiz Tonight– 412,000 viewers (145,000) (186,000)
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P2+ = viewers over the age of 2
(25-54) = Adults 25-54 viewing
(35-64) = Adults 35-64 viewing
Prime Time = 8-11pm
LIVE+SD: The number that watched a program either while it was broadcast OR watched via DVR on the same day [through 3AM the next day] the program was broadcast. For more information see Numbers 101.
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Nielsen Cable Network Coverage Estimates (as of September, 2009)
CNN/HLN: 99.098 million HHs
CNBC: 96.78 million HHs
FNC: 96.26 million HHs
MSNBC: 92.64 million HHs
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
FOX number one again!
Wasn’t BOR supposed to have Sarah Palin on last night?
(or is that tonight?)
Hannity’s Palin interview beat O’Reilly’s. Didn’t expect that.
He has her on both Thursday, last nite, and tonite.
ooo 4 mill for bill
Did anybody notice that Oberbite has the same numbers as Fox and Friends that comes in the early morning, and Madcows numbers didn’t even come close.
If bill had run the interview the entire hour and not split it up he would have gotten 5 million easy
Although this strategy should guarantee over4 million for the 3 nights he does run it
“FOX number one again!”
And it will be, probably for at least the next decade (i.e as old people die, ratings will falter.)
Can we get past this self congratulatory attitude?
It is the same stuff every day here. Like it really matters that 1% of Americans watch Faux news. I’ll give million to 1 odds that Fox news will win the next cable news ratings battle (Friday.) Anyone want to send me a dollar?
Sadly, I guess it is all most of you have at this point. It makes you feel better. Hey, that is all good. Sad, but you have to cling to what you have, right?
FOX getting huge numbers because of the Palin interviews. Good to see the numbers way up. See if maybe we can hold onto some of that!
BTW: I called Olympia Snowe today. She has not decided if she will vote for health care reform or not, but I think she will. The Republican party would implode if she did.
Sure, the most important reform in American history will pass – but will any Republicans be a part of it. I think the answer is yes.
Call her a RHINO etc…if she was voted out, a Democrat would replace her in Maine. Probably not the best strategy…
What I mean to say is…it is probably not the best strategy to get rid of all the moderate Republicans, as having 25-30 votes in the Senate would really suck.
Nancy Grace – 1,018,000 viewers (359,000) (504,000)
8 PM nicely done almost beat Keith ” Not aging well” Olbermann
YZNN says:
November 20, 2009 at 3:14 pm
“BTW: I called Olympia Snowe today. She has not decided if she will vote for health care reform or not, but I think she will. The Republican party would implode if she did.”
LMFAO I am sure you did! Dont you have anything better to do then blog here every two minutes? It must really bother you that Fox is kicking every Cable news stations ass and of course its just a small percentage of the US households thats because ITS ON CABLE! If you really wanted to be intellectially honest instead of whining like Oberman or Ray just admit Fox is killing in the ratings.
Please answer back in 3 mins YZNN before your mom gets home and finds out your using her computer! And changing your name everyday just shows how juvenile you really are this make work at liberal blogs but not with us. BTW say hello to Olympia for me next time you talk to her
YZNN I wont send you a dollar but I will donate one in your name to the NRA you seem like a guy that appreciates guns.
YZNN dismisses FNCs ratings as irrelevant and meaningless.yet, this buffoon bothers to check the numbers. one must wonder why he checks if it means nothing. The truth is , this leftist clown is praying for the day FNC isnt number one.
Well I expected more from Bill in the ratings for Palin. Though I think Bill needs to talk about more things, he seems like a broken record. Hell even Glenn has more variety. As for Olbermann and Maddow, well they both can fall of the Earth tomorrow and the only people that would miss them are the 800k to 1.2mil or so people who watch them.
I guess I could say the same about Glenn, Sean and Bill too.
I’m not too impressed with Bill’s interview; I give it a C for average. I’m getting tired of Bill anyway seeing he keeps riding the fence, at least Glenn and Hannity are full on Right of the fence. Even Olbermann and Maddow have the balls to stay left of the fence, and yes I said they BOTH have balls.
Sarah Palin has had a ton of interviews in the last few days. Here are a few items that I have learned from her.
She want U.S. troops out and Afganistan to be self Governing and controlling a peaceful group of tribal leaders(uncotrollable War Lords). The same goes for Iraq(Shi’is and Sunnis will hold hands and go to Church together). She said Church, I didn’t.
She wants all U.S. Citizens to have health care.
She want the U.S. and it’s allies to sanction Iran and North Korea(wake me up when Russia and China comes around).
She has said nothing new that would make anyone stop, turn their head and listen.
Wasn’t there a guy names Obama that made these same promises?
These are the same wishes as a Miss America contestant.
Oh yeah, after a year, she learned the name of a couple Newspapers(George W. probably told her).
I wonder if she still thinks Africa is a Country?
Ill take Mitt any day.
Sarah Palin has no chance of beating Obama. We need a republican who can beat Obama in a debate. I like her but she is not qualified to be president.
Palin is being given a free pass on FOX just like Obama was by the MSM- and I am very conservative.
Why are Hannity, Greta and others not being honest when it comes to her acumen (keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters). One possibility is that they don’t have it enough to be able to recognize the lack of it in her. We don’t need beauty queens that can talk a lot (and hear the wind blow in the depth of their comments). We a person who has had to develop over long years the ability to solve extremely difficult problems and to cut through the clamor, someone who has cultivated the analytical skills to take on the very tough problems a President would have to undertake. That is why I think Mitt is unequaled in this regard. He is a straight shooter too. The only problem is that the left know it too- that is why they were out to lynch him in the last primary. They knew he was their real threat to their ideology. Sure Palin can talk but she couldn’t match the depth of analysis Mitt has. We need for a real leader (not a follower or a populist).
My two bits worth.
Romneycare would sink him.
Not to mention he has the personality of a Ken doll. He has no connection to middle America. He looks and sounds like the quintessential political canidate-which most Americans do not want and do not trust.
YZNN says 1%of Americans watch Fox news. That is true only if the same 3-4 million watch every nite. Different folks watch on different nites so many more than 1% watch Fox over a period of time. Also how many folks do you think hear about what was on Fox from Fox viewers the next day. You can try to minimize the impact of Fox but that is just hiding your head in the sand –you will find out in Nov of 2010 how many people are on the same page with Fox. Ignore them at your own peril elitist liberals!!!
Palin’s interviews are mainly focused on selling books and herself–which she has accomplished very well.
Some interviews have ventured off into current events and policy questions, not what the book is about mind you, and she has acquitted herself nicely. Short on specifics? You betcha, but giving a detailed response now in 2009, to a situation that will certainly evolve or change by the fall of 2011, is smart. A generalized response was appropriate and will not give her opponents anything to use against her later.
Sara Palen may or may not be a viable candidate for President in 2012, but in 2009 she is without question the rock star of politics. She is an amazing threat to the far left’s comfort zone and a threat to the political establishment of both political parties. Not-so conservative Republicans are wary of her while liberals fear the wave of popularity she is building and riding. Her critics, especially in the media, speak and write in one broken record voice, attacking her character, not her political positions. Chris Matthews on Friday, noting in his slimy sort of way, that not only did Palen not write her best-selling book, but perhaps hasn’t even read it. With media-types like Matthews, despite their shrinking audience and readership stuck on the “she is stupid” one note samba, it only helps grow her position and power when she speaks and people like what they hear. With enemies such this, who cannot disguize their fear of her and hatred for her, she hardly needs any friends to continue to build her political voice. Who knows if she will be the next President, but she will play a major role in helping Americans decide who will be.
Seriously, in 2 segments tonight on O’Reilly she was more decisive on issues than the current administration; and her answers were mainly generic. Gallop now has the President’s approval under 50%. After checking…it took GWB 5 years to go under 50%. Say it any way you want to, but to discount the Conservative voice in the Nation right now is positively…Denial. She doesn’t “Owe” the Liberal-Left validation…their minds are as made up as their inability to accept the Nation is heading in the wrong direction. On the other hand, the independents aren’t buying what the Administration is selling anymore. For a party without a clear leader, it seems the GOP are doing just fine letting the Liberal Left destroy themselves. Once this Health Care Monstrosity hits the floor for debate, while the unemployment continues….Liberals will be standing alone asking “what did we do wrong”…again….DENIAL!
I’m so sick of Sarah Palin that I may have to take a week off of watching Fox just to keep from hearing the name. I hope the conservatives aren’t going all-in with Palin. Obama could admit to being a Muslim born in Kenya and still beat her in a general election.
I just hope all the regular Fox viewers can read through the rhetoric and not buy into the idea of a Palin candidacy. Romney’s not any better. The fact that Romneycare is a full blown failure is enough to discredit him in a general election considering how much healthcare reform has been shoved down everyone’s throat.
We need a good Goldwater or Reagan conservative to lead us out of the combined mess the current and previous administration have made. Just gotta find one…
“Please answer back in 3 mins YZNN before your mom gets home and finds out your using her computer!”
LOL
How is Sarah Palin not qualified? She had more experiance as governor than Obama had as senator. Stop buying into the BS propaganda. The LSM is doing everything to demonize and marginalize her. They are trying to make her look like so dumb vixen (all beauty, no brains) because she threatens them. Why else do you think they despise her so much? If she really was a bafoon, they wouldn’t care, but she’s not. She’s the anti-Obama. Obama is an elitist, she’s a blue dog. Obama is apathetic about America, Palin is unabashedly proud of America. Obama’s backed by media and hollywood elites, Sarah is backed by regular people.
The libs know that she is a charismatic speaker and can pull away their most loyal voters – women. THAT’S why they fear her.
2012 is a long time from now. It’s plenty of time to overcome the negative views many Americans have of her perpetuated by the LSM. If she overcomes them, and our economy remains in shambles, then she can and probably will win.
@dj109
Name ONE position where she is not a Reagan conservative.
JC, I completely agree with you…the interviews with her are in her own words, like them or not…no teleprompter necessary.
J.C. I agree with you on Palin . What kind of EX. did obama have? OH. i forgot He was a comm.organizer.
i don’t get the big fuss over sarah palin give the woman a break she swept from remote alaska and fed to the wolves in the liberal media even the most skilled big city politicians make mistakes far worse than sarah sure she isn’t a graduate of harvard,princeton or yale neither news-flash neither did lincoln and like lincoln what sarah lacks in ivy education she more than makes up in common sense with a whitehouse full of economic wiz kids from harvard we are in a worse position than when bush left and for the liberals who praise ivy league education even bush got to princeton and for all you r.i.n.o’s who think the key to victory is to be democrat lite and didn’t learn from your candidate john mccain i leave with a quote from ronald reagan “Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but BOLD COLORS which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people…” -RONALD W. REAGAN (03/01/1975)
Qualifications to be the President of the United states:
Natural citizen, 35 years old. If you’re both, you’re qualified.
Check here to see for yourself:
http://www.constitution.org/constit_.htm#con2.1.5
Have a nice day!
P.S. Just general information, not endorsing anyone on any side of the political spectrum
Though I like Palin, I’d like to see any conservate candidate surface and be strong enough to mow down Obama. Come to think of it Obama may mow himself down. There’s no middle of the road with him. He’s either going to destroy himself or he’ll become dictator.
I am still amazed that Fox beats all the others day in day out, year in year out and the “others” just keep doing the same thing and expect a different outcome. They get Big Ed and move him to 30 Rock, this is someone that has only one subject, health care and the odd thing is, of all the people on TV he is by far the least informed on the subject of health care and the problems associated with it adn his numbers reflect it. It is just amazing to watch the LSM at work, it reminds me of a monkey trying to fu@k a football
“I am still amazed that Fox beats all the others day in day out, year in year out and the “others” just keep doing the same thing and expect a different outcome.”
The “others” don’t care about ratings. They know the president won’t let them fail so they will preach his agenda all day, every day regardless how unpopular it is with the American people. Eventually the lemmings out there will hear this administrations rhetoric enough that they will start to believe that communism can actually work.
While I don’t particularly care for Fox, I’ve got to give them credit for standing on their own. Thank God there’s a network willing to oppose this administration and tell the truth about what they’re doing.
dj109, I think Tim Pawlenty or Newt Gingrich could be a Barry Goldwater ro Ronald Reagan.
dj109 in your view which candidate do you who can actually beat obama
Ask the air traffic controllers how great Reagan was. And was it Marie Antoinette or Ronald Reagan that said of our school children “let them eat ketchup”.
anonymous says:
November 21, 2009 at 10:31 am
dj109 in your view which candidate do you who can actually beat obama
Depends on how bad Obama screws up the country between now and 2011. If he continues down the path he’s on now, pretty much anyone with conservative values should beat him easily. No matter what he believes, the majority of Americans don’t want Communism.
It’s not really hard to beat a “do nothing candidate”.
Obama is “Nation Building” in America right now. He is a true Marxist with an Internationalist (also part of Marx’s doctrine). Obama jokes about in China, said his family looks like an United Nations. True, his mother and father were very much 1960s radical “Internationalists”, remember they met in Russian class.
Obama is systematically socializing every aspects of America and American’s life, from economy to individual rights. “the majority of Americans don’t want Communism”, but many Americans have not realized yet what Obama is doing to our country, he is fundamentally changing our future. The Communist China can’t even comprehend what this American President is doing to America!!
dj09 than why not sarah palin out of most republicans she truly holds conservative free market beliefs in alaska she sold the state jet to close the state deficit she fought corruption not only in the democratic party but in her on party she was governor of the largest state in the union and oversaw the largest oil and natural gas supply in the u.s she has garnered the admiration and support from the most recognizable and influential faces of the conservative movement rush limbaugh,sean hannity,glenn beck why in your mind is she not the one moderation and the ole boy network gets you nowhere the 06 and 08 elections should’ve been proof of that so instead of regurgitating the same tired criticism of sarah palin why not give her a shot and don’t just dismiss what may just be the only hope for the republican party
@guy
THAT’S your argument against Reagan? Really? Because he threaten to terminate air traffic controlers (vital to the nation) who went on strike? I guess he should have let the whole nation come to a stand still, huh. BTW, after the cold war it was discovered that this caused the Soviets tp fear Reagan because he meant business. Because of Reagan, The Soviets spent themselves to oblivian. (Kind of what America is doing now)
If it wasn’t for Reagan the cold war would have continued and eventually turn into a full scale war.
Reagan didn’t threated to fire the Air Traffic Controllers. He FIRED them. As far as bringing down the Berlin wall, he would like to take credit for it. He could see Gorbavhev changing the Soviet Union and decided to take advantage of it. I seem to remember Gorbachev having something to do with it. And don’t forget he told our children that they don’t need vegatables in school. Because they can eat ketchup and ketchup is a vegatable. How soon we forget.
JC, please give us your view on Reagans ketchup statement. We are waiting. Dum-dee-dumm-dee dumm. Still waiting.
guy yea the ketchup thing was dumb but if that’s the best knock you have against reagan i’ll handle it. at least he let us eat ketchup, and eat trans fats and even ,,god forbid,,smoke—it’s called freedom. now it’s nanny land and it’s turning us into a nation of wusses
Go FOX!
Hannity’s interview with Palin was great.
O’Reilly was ok……..I like his show and his regulars, but Hannity is my favorite!
All FOX all the time!
Perhaps the Reagan’s USDA should have proposed a serving of V8 instead of ketchup. Or a serving of salsa…
@guy
lol. Yeah, because theirs no reason why the Soviet collasped. Gorvachov just suddenly saw the light and decided to end communism because he wanted too. It certainly wasn’t because they were in a finaincial collapse or anything.
*sigh* Unlike you libs, I don’t try to rewrite history. It is a FACT that Soviet Russia collapsed becaused of the econamy. And it is a FACT that the economy failed because they were in an arms race with America and could not keep up. Reagan knew the key was getting them to spend. Remeber the Star Wars program. Reagan knew that it wasn’t possible, but he announced it anyway to scare the Soviets into a spending spree. It was one of the biggest bluffs in the 20th century, and it worked.
But you go ahead, believe huff post and daily kod instead.
Here’s the full-story about the ketchup-as-vegetable story.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2517/did-the-reagan-era-usda-really-classify-ketchup-as-a-vegetable
My point is that Reagan said that schools didn’t have to offer any vegetable other that KETCHUP. Anyone wish he was feeding your kids?
Anyone remember 1986 when he was under oath testifying about selling arm to Iran. His answers: I don’t remember, I don’t remember, I don’t remember.
Yes I know. You don’t remember.
JC, I couldn’t make out what you were trying to say about KETCHUP. Still waiting. Still Ducking?
I wasn’t aware you asked me about ketchup for one. And two, I really don’t care about some “controversy” that happend decades ago. Is that really relanent today?
like i said guy the best you got is ketchup,,,,,,pathetic
Larry King beat Rachel Madcow? That old goat has some life left in him.
Perhaps you didn’t read 5 posts back about Reagan and the “Iran Contra” I can’t remenber statements. Or perhaps you read it and “can’t remember”.
By the way. I am not a Liberal. I am just putting things out that happened. Perhaps you refuse to deal the truth. Perhaps.
Perhaps you are letting others “Think For You”. It is obvious to you that the truth didn’t happen.
Looks like the libs are going to get their way on Health care. They will pay off (with our money of course)any dem who threatens to vote against it. But they will lose in the end as will all Americans. They will get voted out of office for doing such a dispicable thing to our country. Obama will probably keep his job because the dems and Acorn will figure out how to fix the election and all the illegal aliens will be legal by 2012. We are in big trouble with this guy who calls himself president. The entire world will suffer because they need America to be strong. We will be just another country trying to get by instead of the leader of the free world.
I found out the other day that Lou Dobbs co-hosted with Kudlow on CNBC on Thursday. Perhaps if there is was more word of mouth, the ratings might have been higher.
Commentor, Sarah was not given a “free pass” at FOX, she was just treated with respect.
If ratings on Foz News is anything to be enthused about, the Replicans will win all elections. The liberal and moderate media is expansive while we have only one conservative right wing media and as a result all right wing nuts gravitate to one station. My brother-in-law, who is a right nut turns on Fox News 24/7 sometimes not even watching and all will be counted.
I am a Fox News Channel viewer. I have during commercials turned to other cable news channels just to see why they are so low in ratings. Here is why:
1. they are boring with loudmouth presenters.
2. They lack a balanced presentation.
3. They love anything this administration does, and as such is one sided.
4. Their “news” and viewpoints are so skewed one wonders how their viewers believe what they say.
5. The presenters appear to be moronic in their presentations, moronic in their views and constantly put their foot in their mouths as witnessed by Mathews comment about the “enemy in West Point”.
So knowing all this, I’ll stick with FOX and get real fair and balanced news!