Here is the Q2 2007 Program Ranker (ranked by Total Viewers/P2+). FNC had 13 of the top 15 programs.
FNC was #4 in all of basic cable in primetime for the quarter. FNC was the only basic top ten cable network. FNC was up double digits across the board in the primetime Demo for the quarter including increases for O’Reilly, Hannity & Colmes, and On the Record. On The Record with Greta Van Susteren had a large increase in the demo, up 25% for the quarter. FNC’s America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly, which just launched in February, had a big increase in demo for the quarter (up 21%).
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Here is the Q2 2007 Basic Cable Primetime ranker. FNC ranked 4th in Prime based on Total Viewers (p2+). CNN ranked 25th in Prime and 26th in Total Day in Total Viewers (P2+)

In June Nancy Grace beat both Paula Zahn Now and Countdown with Keith Olbermann to claim the number two slot in Total Viewers and The Demo for the month.

Total Viewers P2+
Nancy Grace - 691,000
Countdown - 597,000
Paula Zahn Now - 524,000

P25-54 Demo
Nancy Grace - 225,000
Countdown - 188,000
Paula Zahn Now - 177,000.

(ratings are Live)

Cable News Ratings for July 2, 2007

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 916,000 viewers
CNN – 492,000 viewers
MSNBC – 311,000 viewers
CNBC – 223,000 viewers
HLN – 251,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,745,000 viewers
CNN – 807,000 viewers
MSNBC – 552,000 viewers
CNBC –201,000 viewers
HLN – 473,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 277,000 viewers
CNN –165,000 viewers
MSNBC – 119,000 viewers
CNBC – 90,000 viewers
HLN – 100,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 463,000 viewers
CNN – 265,000 viewers
MSNBC – 150,000 viewers
CNBC –86,000 viewers
HLN – 162,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 857,000 viewers (336,000)
American Morning – 399,000 viewers (144,000)
MSNBC Live (7-9 AM) – 199,000 viewers (51,000)
Robin & Co. –196,000 viewers (121,000)
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Cal Thomas is under fire over an analogy he made regarding “some Muslims” on WTOP radio. Brietbart has the audio.

GretaWire blogs about a missing Wisconsin student…

Last night we also did a segment about a missing student (Kelly Nolan) in Madison, Wisconsin. She was last seen on State Street in Madison late June 22. I was stunned when the Madison newspaper reporter told me on air that State Street has been the site of a recent shooting. When I was in college there, it was extremely safe: Women could walk the street at all hours and there were lots of people on the street. State Street is the main drag in the town and where all the students go at all hours. The University of Wisconsin is hard to get into now (not when I applied) and when the reporter said there had been a shooting there my instant thought: It just got easier to get into Wisconsin. Every parent of a Wisconsin Badger who just heard the reporter is going to pull his kid out of the school. I still think Wisconsin is safe.

The Washington Post’s Liz Kelly has Tony Danza commenting on Paris Hilton and CNN… (via Shenanigans)

You used to host your own TV talk show. Considering all the hype surrounding the Paris Hilton interview and the jockeying to score the first one, would you have gone for a chance to talk to her?

I was in an airport [last Wednesday] when that whole Paris Hilton interview was going down. I was watching “The Situation Room” and they were talking about this interview that hadn’t happened yet and then counting down to it. I’ll never watch CNN again.

I mean it. I think something’s happened to news and entertainment. News has become entertainment. They don’t give you what you need, they give you what you want. And entertainment has taken a turn, too. People aren’t much interested in virtuosity. They just want to feel better when they watch something and that changes it all. So I don’t know, maybe that’s why Broadway was so great and I’m going to Vegas.

MSNBC’s release on its Q2 2007 results…

MSNBC completed yet another quarter with spectacular ratings increases. For the third consecutive quarter, the network pushed past the competition to achieve more growth than any other cable news network. In 2Q07 total day, MSNBC was up +26% in total viewers over second quarter 2006 (296,000 v. 234,000) and up +34% in the key adult 25-54 demographic (123,000 v. 92,000), according to Nielsen Media Research data. In total viewers, CNN was up +11% (471,000 v. 425,000) and Fox News Channel was up only +5% (815,000 v. 776,000).

In primetime (M-F 8:00-11:00 p.m., ET), MSNBC was up a substantial +49% in total viewers (520,000 v. 349,000) and +49% in the adult demo (198,000 v. 133,000), while CNN was basically flat, up +3% (823,000 v. 796,000), and Fox News Channel was up a mere +5% in total viewers (1,720,000 v. 1,635,000).

MSNBC’s dayside programming block (M-F 9:00-6:00 p.m. ET) also grew at a healthy clip, up +38% in total viewers (268,000 v. 194,000) and +39% in the adult demo. This block includes “Tucker” (4:00 – 5:00 p.m. ET), which was up +39% in total viewers (301,000 v. 217,000) and +31% in the adult demo (102,000 v. 78,000) and also “Hardball with Chris Matthews” (5:00 – 6:00 p.m. ET), which was up +32% in total viewers (407,000 v. 308,000) and +32% in the adult demo (135,000 v. 102,000). By contrast, CNN’s daytime block was up +18% in total viewers (496,000 v. 420,000) and Fox News Channel was up +7% (861,000 v. 807,000).
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Wired Magazine’s Eric Steuer has an interview with CNN’s Nicole Lapin. (via FTVLive)

Why take a job anchoring news on the Web? Doesn’t everyone want to be on TV?

This is the future of news. It’s what my children will watch. Plus, there’s something great about being part of a venture like this from the start. Kurt Loder will always be associated with MTV News. Bernard Shaw will forever be synonymous with CNN — he started when people didn’t think the network would last.

You’re part of the first generation of reporters to arrive in the era of citizen journalism. How has this shaped the way you work?

Right now, I’m producing a series about influential young people, and some of the ideas I’ve used have come directly from suggestions readers have left on my blog. As an anchor in this new medium, what I do is a combination of traditional reporting and pointing people to where they can find the story told best

Saturday’s numbers seem light to me considering the cable nets were all over the Scotland bombing all day long. I guess people were doing the pre-4th of July thing…

Cable News Ratings June 30, 2007

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 781,000 viewers
CNN – 479,000 viewers
MSNBC – 308,000 viewers
CNBC – 195,000 viewers
HLN – 299,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 928,000 viewers
CNN – 543,000 viewers
MSNBC – 390,000 viewers
CNBC – 183,000 viewers
HLN – 329,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 242,000 viewers
CNN – 166,000 viewers
MSNBC –131,000 viewers
CNBC – 81,000 viewers
HLN – 115,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 207,000 viewers
CNN – 239,000 viewers
MSNBC – 144,000 viewers
CNBC – 69,000 viewers
HLN – 117,000 viewers

Cable News Ratings for July 1, 2007
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This rumor is really growing. I’ve been watching it percolate for the past couple of weeks, mostly on Imus fan sites who want the I-man back on the air. However, yesterday it showed up on Journalisms and The New York Post, albeit in a non-denial denial sort of way (which isn’t saying much if you ask me).

A spokeswoman for CBS Radio would not confirm or deny a report in the New York Post on Monday that disgraced radio host Don Imus, removed in April from CBS-owned WFAN Radio in New York after racist and sexist banter, might return to the station.

“Imus maybe hitting the FAN again,” Don Kaplan wrote in Monday’s story.

“The radio rumor mill has turned the volume way up on reports that the return of Don Imus to WFAN is just around the corner.”

“And WFAN itself is fueling the reports.”

Regardless of whatever happens on WFAN, it’s pretty safe to assume there will be no return to MSNBC. That bridge wasn’t just burned. It was nuked. The only way Imus could possibly be allowed back is if the entire NBC News division’s hierarchy was replaced. And that’s not going to happen.

Radar Online’s Adam K. Raymond writes about Joe Scarborough replacing Don Imus from a “six of one, half a dozen of the other” perspective…

As Scarborough’s filled in for Imus (who may or may not be returning to his radio show) in the months since the grizzled shock-jock’s deplorable comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, he’s been the presumed heir since the get-go. But in officially handing him the slot, has MSNBC found a replacement that’s any less a potential liability than Imus was?

Raymond goes on to throw everything but the kitchen sink at Scarborough…

Newsday’s Verne Gay has a profile of Fox and Friends’ Brian Kilmeade…

Kilmeade gets up most mornings at around 2:30 for the limo ride into the city. Why not move closer to work? “I wanted to be the guy that becomes successful in Massapequa [because] everyone else left,” he says.

“The Kilmeades all hold the mast up” for Massapequa, says “Fox & Friends” executive producer David Brown. “When the Amy Fisher-Joey Buttafuoco [dating story] came to light recently, he was like, ‘Noooo…. Do we have to do this? It’s my hometown.’ He’s very, very much about Massapequa.”