Thursday’s Numbers…
It was a flat evening in a lot of respects. While O’Reilly was still a charger, On The Record had a sub par outting. Nancy Grace’s repeat was flat. Both Cooper and Zahn dipped under a million, early indications that the Katrina coattails may be starting to lose their potency.
Total Day P2
FNC 1,063,000
CNN 600,000
MSNBC 253,000
HLN 196,000
CNBC 151,000
Total Day P25-54
FNC 307,000
CNN 165,000
MSNBC 76,000
CNBC 48,000
HLN 78,000
Prime Time
FNC 2,083,000
CNN 1,054,000
MSNBC 399,000
HLN 373,000
CNBC 160,000
Prime Time P25-54
FNC 540,000
CNN 275,000
MSNBC 108,000
HLN 108,000
CNBC 99,000
7pm
Fox Report 1,719,000
Anderson Cooper 801,000
Hardball 335,000
Showbiz Tonight 93,000
8pm
O’Reilly Factor 2,895,000
Paula Zahn 945,000
Nancy Grace 503,000
Countdown 378,000
9pm
Hannity & Colmes 1,899,000
Larry King Live 1,260,000
Live and Direct 472,000
Prime News Tonight 335,000
10pm
On the Record 1,454,000
NewsNight 959,000
Scarborough Country 346,000
Nancy Grace (r) 280,000
11pm
O’Reilly Factor (r) 1,247,000
Newsnight 785,000
The Situation 185,000
Showbiz Tonight (r) 139,000
Coopers numbers have been under 1M before thursday.
Comment by anonymous — September 30, 2005 @ 7:20 pm
O’Reilly’s numbers are actually more like 4.1 million, if the ratings for the rerun of his program at 11 p.m. are included. And I don’t believe we’ve ever seen what they are for the 4 a.m. repeat, so his total viewers may actually exceed the 4.1 million.
Most cable news programs would be ecstatic just to have the ratings that O’Reilly gets for the 11 p.m. rerun!
Comment by Missy — September 30, 2005 @ 8:50 pm
Hurry Greta! Your ratings are a slippin! Announce that YOU have breaking news in the Natalee case…and of course, when people tune in and have to wait for the last 2 minutes of your show, to see Beth, with her onthebrokenrecord news………..at least you’ll have those ratings already recorded!
Comment by An Observer — September 30, 2005 @ 9:29 pm
too bad the top cable news show isn’t actually reporting the news. but what would one expect from o’reilly and fnc.
Comment by Anonymous — September 30, 2005 @ 10:39 pm
Anonymous, thank God you’re not watching O’Reilly, then you’d really be upset. As he says virtually every night, his program is “news analysis”. If you want to watch news, watch Shep or Anderson Cooper. They pretty much report without a lot of commentary/analysis.
Comment by Missy — October 1, 2005 @ 2:03 am
Watch Greta’s numbers continue to fall. Humpty Dumpty can’t put that show back together again. It is hard to tell which has the most grating nasal twang - Greta or Beth!
I am sorry for Beth’s loss, but if she is really heading to the The Netherlands, that is just too much!!
Comment by Cara — October 1, 2005 @ 2:07 pm
Then Missy, if you agree it’s not news, should it count as “cable news ratings”? A majority of the shows on Fox News are opinion, analysis, whatever you want to call them. Should FNC be classified as a cable news network or a cable opinion of news channel?
Comment by AnonymousHere — October 1, 2005 @ 3:29 pm
you obviously dont watch FNC for the Vast majority of the time. Brit Hume- 4 segments of political news, 2 of analysis. Is there something about that which would exlude his show? NO
But i have a feeling you’re talking about Primetime. They tell people about the news and have intelligent debate on the subject. If you feel its one sided for one reason or another it doesnt matter. What more do you want from a news org or is it more your own little grudge?
O’ Reilly is an interrogation time in which he traps ppl like Galloway and asks them hard questions like: “should we have taken out the Taliban?”
Comment by Wake — October 1, 2005 @ 9:07 pm
They’re just considerably different types of shows than if you were to watch CNN. Really the only opinionated show like that of FNC is Lou Dobbs, and he just talks about the same thing every day.
There’s the morning shows, then the regular news shows, CNNI, more regular news shows, 3 hours of The Situation Room, “Lou Dobbs”, then Cooper, Zahn, King, and Brown/Copper (all of which do interviewing and it really just isn’t so opinionated.)
On FNC you wake up in the morning and hear alot of opinion on the morning show. Then there are some regular news shows, and then in my opinion a stretch of opinionated shows with opinionated anchors that basically form an early primetime and and then a regular primetime. Cavuto is the FNC version of Lou Dobbs, Gibson’s show is full of his opinion, and Brit Hume’s show is fairly opinionated, as well. And to be honest I don’t think his panels are very fair at all when he brings in two republicans/one repub and a moderate and himself against one democrat. Anyways, the one actual news show is Shephard Smith, but then O’Reilly, Hannity and Colmes, and to the cap the night off a show that doesn’t do news or news analysis, Greta.
So yeah, if you want to consider half of Hume’s show, Sherpard’s show, and a few daytime shows “news shows” then that’s fine with me.
And of course the slant is heavily conservative. And to be honest there really is no liberal opinion channel. A lot of these surveys will say Dems are watching CNN, Repubs are watching FNC. The only reasons why some dems watch CNN is because what else are they going to watch, certainly not FNC and there’s no opinionated network for liberals. Republicans want to get their news from FNC, people watching CNN tend to just watch it for the news. A lot of dems just get news from the internet. When there is a huge breaking news event that’s when they go to CNN because who else are they going to watch. It just appears about all republicans watch FNC, so there are few that watch CNN, making it look proportionally dem. but it’s not true at all.
Comment by AnonymousHere — October 1, 2005 @ 11:51 pm
I’m glad AnonymousHere decided to share his wisdom with all of us about why millions of people are or are not watching cable news television. I’m relieved to finally have somebody in the know explain the world to me.
Comment by Ms. Anonymous — October 2, 2005 @ 1:14 pm
Hi. The Fox Report doubled Anderson Cooper 360, and Spud doensn’t think that’s a big deal? I wonder how those two programs did in that 25-54 demo category?
Comment by Jake — October 2, 2005 @ 1:26 pm
FTVLive.com has the 25-54 demos and Shepard Smith had a couple of hundred thousand more viewers in that demo. FTVLive also has the Situation Room ratings w/the demos. Fox doubled them everywhere….that show almost back to where it was before the hurricanes hit.
Comment by Steve — October 2, 2005 @ 1:30 pm
Jake, I’ve too have noticed that Fox can do things such as double very important CNN programs and it doesn’t get a mention in Spud’s review of day. It’s kind of just what happens out here.
Comment by Chris — October 2, 2005 @ 11:00 pm
To defend Brit Hume, he give 2 of the 8 segments to the right leaning panel. The rest is fair from what i can tell reporting from whats going on up there on capital hill. .5 of a segment goes to The Political Grapevine full of outrageous stories which you cant get off the front page and you wouldnt hear about any where else.
I consider H&C mostly fair and balanced though i dont watch it often Alan presents all the facts that help prove his point and Hannity does the same. Both drill the opposition. They need to fire Alan and get Hennigan in there he’d prolly do even better at a debate than Hannity. Ok its full of opinion but they tell you how they see the event playing out and they to persuade you to do the same.
O’ Reillys a propagandist.
I dont understand how you can denie something like that news status. Facts, Point of view, argument.
Comment by Wake — October 2, 2005 @ 11:26 pm
its probably more of a grudge these lefties have going than evidence to make such a ridiculous claim or they just dont watch it if its not on Media Matters or something. they never see Shepard Smith either.
Comment by Nobodys a moron — October 5, 2005 @ 8:08 pm