By Nielsen Media Research, via FNC.

FRIDAY 5-13 IN TOTAL VIEWERS
PRIMETIME
FNC - 1,417,000
HEADLINE NEWS — 383,000
CNN - 345,000
MSNBC - 195,000
CNBC — 180,000

25-54 Prime Time
FNC - 358,000
HEADLINE NEWS — 155,000
CNN - 107,000
CNBC — 108,000
MSNBC - 71,000

The LA Times’ Tim Rutten is out with a stinging review of Nancy Grace.

Notable:

What’s alarming isn’t so much what happens on her nightly broadcast but what’s absent — things like balance, sobriety, fairness and independent judgment, qualities that used to rate at least a passing nod from the employees of mainstream news organizations. Even Fox’s Bill O’Reilly has a mind flexible enough to turn in an unexpected direction now and then.

Not Grace, whose on-air persona suggests what might have eventuated if Scarlett O’Hara had enjoyed a fling with Tomas de Torquemada.

Read it here.

The New York Times writes today that CourtTV is now beating CNN in total viewers. So - if you classify CourtTV is a cable news net (which is some what of a stretch, sure - but no more than considering CNBC in that category) — that would make CNN is the #3 cable news network (and MSNBC #4, Headline #5, etc.).

Ouch.