Friday’s Numbers…
Lots of strange things going on Friday. Grace clobbered Zahn nearly 2:1 (ok, that’s not that strange). Greta beat O’Reilly without having to go over the 2,000,000 mark. HLN beat CNN in the Prime Time Demo and came within 8,000 of beating them in the daytime Demo as well. MSNBC cratered in Prime Time. The Situation did its usual 150,000 and yet that was still more than enough to make Countdown (sub host) the lowest rated show for MSNBC prime time.
(numbers courtesy of FOX News)
P2+ Total Day
FNC - 831,000 viewers
CNN - 360,000 viewers
HLN - 200,000 viewers
MSNBC - 155,000 viewers
CNBC - 112,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC - 253,000 viewers
CNN - 93,000 viewers
HLN - 85,000 viewers
MSNBC - 51,000 viewers
CNBC -42,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC -1,570,000 viewers
CNN - 590,000 viewers
HLN - 464,000 viewers
MSNBC - 175,000 viewers
CNBC - 69,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC - 381,000 viewers
HLN - 171,000 viewers
CNN - 144,000 viewers
MSNBC - 63,000 viewers
CNBC - 37,000 viewers
Prime Time Breakdown….
7PM
FOX Report with Shepard Smith - 1,285,000 viewers
Anderson Cooper 360 - 421,000 viewers
Hardball - 216,000 viewers
Showbiz Tonight - 135,000 viewers
8PM
O’Reilly Factor - 1,518,000 viewers
Paula Zahn Now - 389,000 viewers
Nancy Grace - 671,000 viewers
Countdown with Keith Olbermann- 129,000 viewers
Cover to Cover - 43,000 viewers
9 PM
Hannity & Colmes FNC - 1,491,000 viewers
Larry King Live - 825,000 viewers
Prime News Tonight - 303,000 viewers
The Situation with Tucker Carlson - 148,000 viewers
Mad Money -73,000 viewers
10 PM
On the Record w/Greta Van Susteren- 1,702,000 viewers
NewsNight with Aaron Brown - 557,000 viewers
Nancy Grace ( r ) - 420,000 viewers
Scarborough Country - 248,000 viewers
Donny Deutsch - 91,000 viewers
No surprise with Grace beating Zahn. I guess MSNBC is saying that Carlson is still trying to find an audience. I’m shocked at O’Reilly’s #s because doesn’t he usually average like a 2.5
Comment by anonymous — July 18, 2005 @ 7:19 pm
O’Reilly wasn’t hosting on Friday; he had the night off.
Comment by johnny dollar — July 18, 2005 @ 7:20 pm
Excuses, excuses, excuses JD. Why do always have to make EXCUSES for a fox failure?
Comment by Anonymous — July 19, 2005 @ 12:34 am
What’s your problem? Where’s the failure? What’s the “excuse”? Even with O’Reilly not on the air The Factor still gets more viewers than the others combined. I think CNN and MS would love to have to make “excuses” for that kind of “failure”.
Comment by johnny dollar — July 19, 2005 @ 12:47 am
I agree with JD actually. There’s no reason for pointing and laughing. FNC’s ongoing domination in the ratings is NOT a failure. If Barbera Walters took over for a few nights in Jimmy Kimmel’s place, no one would watch. (Ok, maybe thats a bit extreme). In any case, weird numbers indeed, but certainly not anything that FNC should be worried about IMHO.
Comment by Thebiz — July 19, 2005 @ 8:28 am
“O’Reilly wasn’t hosting on Friday; he had the night off.”–Fox always says that when he’s gone. Just making EXCUSES for the lower than normal #’s. And that’s called an EXCUSE!
Comment by Anonymous — July 19, 2005 @ 10:42 am
Yes, Fox always says that he wasn’t there when he was gone. That works a lot better than saying he wasn’t there when he was. In fact, this Fox tactic of saying he wasn’t there when he wasn’t there has been so revolutionary that now CNN is saying Larry King wasn’t there when HE was gone. Oh no, the Foxification of News! When will it stop!
Comment by johnny dollar — July 19, 2005 @ 11:21 am
Boy JD got your panties in a wad? Better take your prozac! AND I have NEVER heard CNN say that, JUST YOU AND Fox! Excuses, excuses, excuses are all you can offer!
Comment by Anonymous — July 19, 2005 @ 12:26 pm
Why are you anonymous? So you can take cheap shots at people? Or play both sides of the field?
Comment by Terance — July 19, 2005 @ 12:35 pm