Thursday’s Numbers…
Cable News Daily Live Ratings for November 15, 2007
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 897,000 viewers
CNN – 908,000 viewers
MSNBC – 268,000 viewers
CNBC – 254,000 viewers
HLN – 238,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,704,000 viewers
CNN – 3,488,000 viewers
MSNBC- 398,000 viewers
CNBC –328,000 viewers
HLN – 464,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC – 235,000 viewers
CNN – 275,000 viewers
MSNBC – 107,000 viewers
CNBC – 61,000 viewers
HLN- 88,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 382,000 viewers
CNN – 987,000 viewers
MSNBC – 138,000 viewers
CNBC – 113,000 viewers
HLN – 177,000 viewers
Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 953,000 viewers (312,000)
American Morning- 399,000 viewers (105,000)
Morning Joe – 216,000 viewers (81,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade – 214,000 viewers (98,000)
6PM - P2+ (25-54)
Special Report with Brit Hume – 1,346,000 viewers (289,000)
Situation Room- 659,000 viewers (175,000)
Tucker Carlson- 305,000 viewers (109,000)
Mad Money – 278,000 viewers (a scratch with 35,000)
Prime News- 224,000 viewers (87,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54)
FOX Report with Shepard Smith – 1,560,000 viewers (356,000)
Lou Dobbs – 1,094,000 viewers (320,000)
Hardball– 382,000 viewers (116,000)
Kudlow & Company- 213,000 viewers (a scratch with 45,000)
Glenn Beck – 297,000 viewers (123,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54)
O’Reilly Factor- 2,371,000 viewers (440,000) LSD: 2,427,000 viewers (475,000)
CNN Democratic Debate– 3,954,000 viewers (1,095,000) LSD: 4,036,000 viewers (1,123,000)**Ran from 8-10PM ET
Countdown w/ Olbermann- 590,000 viewers (178,000) LSD: 646,000 viewers (212,000)
Fast Money- 177,000 viewers (a scratch with 51,000) LSD: 177,000 viewers (a scratch with 51,000)
Nancy Grace – 653,000 viewers (218,000) LSD: 659,000 viewers (218,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54)
Hannity & Colmes- 1,481,000 viewers (367,000)
Live w/ Dan Abrams- 322,000 viewers (87,000)
Deal or No Deal- 610,000 viewers (180,000)
Glenn Beck – 398,000 viewers (142,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54)
On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren- 1,260,000 viewers (338,000)
Anderson Cooper- 2,311,000 viewers (714,000)
MSNBC Investigates- 282,000 viewers (149,000)
Donny Deutsch- 199,000 viewers (110,000)
Nancy Grace – 387,000 viewers (183,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54)
O’Reilly Factor- 1,082,000 viewers (390,000)
CNN Democratic Debate – 1,169,000 viewers (437,000) ** Ran from 11PM- 1AM ET
MSNBC Special– 246,000 viewers (120,000)
Mad Money– a scratch with 90,000 viewers (56,000)
Showbiz Tonight – 264,000 viewers (98,000)
Highest rated cable-news debate ever.
Comment by randy — November 16, 2007 @ 6:46 pm
Many republicans watched to see if Hillary would lie again and implode, thats why the numbers were high.
Comment by foxmeansbusiness — November 16, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
The two channel viewers reliably tuned in to Fox News while the regular Americans tuned in to CNN. Congratulations to Fox Management and derisive laughter at the fringe that reward you.
Comment by elmonica — November 16, 2007 @ 6:55 pm
it was refreshing to see a debate without the usual network (fox) slant.
Comment by calcal — November 16, 2007 @ 6:58 pm
Oh no! Will Fox panic and put on a full blitz of “taking the Christ out of Christmas ” trumped up news alerts..?
Comment by calcal — November 16, 2007 @ 7:01 pm
The debate certainly didn’t hurt BOR numbers. Way to go Bill. CNN had high viewership but their managing of the debate was very poor. They certainly gave a lot of air time to the top three candidates vs the other four.
Comment by Bob — November 16, 2007 @ 7:11 pm
elmonica
I am a FOX news viewer and I watched most of the so called debate last night, I turned back to FOX when it was obvious that it was a set up to make Hillary look good and get her numbers back on track!
When she changed her position on drivers licenses for illegals for the third time in 2 weeks no one even questioned her?? how strange, CNN=Clinton News Network
Comment by Sam — November 16, 2007 @ 7:12 pm
BOR’s numbers look fairly normal. The debate took KO’s viewers. Nancy Grace’s program also gained viewers.
Comment by Goldfish — November 16, 2007 @ 7:20 pm
There used to a liberal Sam on this board. Where are you man? We got an impostor.
Comment by elmonica — November 16, 2007 @ 7:26 pm
Damn, I’m disappointed in elmo. Thought you went cold turkey till Saturday.
and I agree with what #2 said.
Comment by Lurker — November 16, 2007 @ 7:32 pm
Its hard to believe Wolf Blitzer could keep that many people watching.. Personally, I don’t give him the time of day.
Comment by Terance — November 16, 2007 @ 7:40 pm
Wolf’s a great host. I just wish CNN would let Dobbs host a debate (would be very interesting to see him vs. Clinton)
Tucker: Above the 300k mark
Comment by Aaron — November 16, 2007 @ 8:09 pm
wow cnn won in total viewers AND in demo numbers in day and primetime. just wondered if the repubs versus democrats thing would pop up. ya’ll kill me. repubs and fnc want rudi for president. what makes him such a goood canidate for the job?
Comment by Me — November 16, 2007 @ 8:46 pm
How many nights in a row now has Olbermann been in FOURTH place?
Comment by Tom — November 16, 2007 @ 9:41 pm
Tom, you yet again take it for dumbest KO post of the day. Congrats on that.
Any idiot knew that KO would lose a substantial amount of viewers because his viewing base are liberals who watch the debates (like myself).
Comment by randy — November 16, 2007 @ 9:46 pm
Hey Laura Ingraham was in for Oreilly tonight, I wonler how olbermann will feel being beaten by another woman?
Comment by foxmeansbusiness — November 16, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
Glen Beck’s combined totals for the nite are 100,000 viewers MORE than Keith Olbermann. Read it and weap Keith lovers!
Comment by jeff feezle — November 16, 2007 @ 10:23 pm
“Any idiot knew that KO would lose a substantial amount of viewers because his viewing base are liberals who watch the debates (like myself)”
Are you admitting your an Idiot or a Liberal?…either way it’s the same thing.
Comment by mlong — November 17, 2007 @ 5:43 am
Randy:
There are many people who don’t watch these so-called “debates”. Personally, I believe a better term for these events would be “staged Q&A’s”. To me a “real debate” were the Lincoln-Douglass debates.
I try to avoid televised Democrat & Republican “staged QA’s” as much as possible and read as much as I can regarding the candidates positions.
I firmly believe the two (2) big issues next year are:
1A) Iraq/War On Terror
1B) Immigration
Whichever candidate can formulate a detailed & specific plan to address these two big issues will be elected president. It’s not good enough to say I support the troops but I want them home. Nor, can a candidate just say I believe in stronger border enforcement. Additional details on both subjects will be needed.
Again, jmho…
Comment by Rich — November 17, 2007 @ 7:03 am
Personally, I believe a better term for these events would be “staged Q&A’s”. To me a “real debate” were the Lincoln-Douglass debates.
Exactly. And I avoid them also. Besides being a Q’n'A show they’re a showcase for the moderator(s). Very little information can be gained by watching them.
Does anyone remember who moderated the Lincoln-Douglass debates? ;-)
Comment by Grandpa D — November 17, 2007 @ 11:19 am
Sure many people dont, but a substantial amount of people, like myself do. I mean CNN did have the most watched debate in cable news history, so somebody was watching.
Comment by randy — November 17, 2007 @ 1:22 pm
Yes randy, but 297 million people didn’t watch it. 3+Million isn’t a hell of a lot.
Comment by StephenMartin — November 17, 2007 @ 1:29 pm
Trying to be a smartass? You and I both know that getting almost 4 million for cable news is a hell of a lot. When all the other debates are stuck with 3 million or under, you cannot deny that it is a huge audience for a cable news network (no pun intended) to get.
Comment by randy — November 17, 2007 @ 3:12 pm
>Sure many people dont, but a substantial amount of people
I was referring to your statement that a substantial amount of people do. If you had clarified, then i would not have commented. Yes, 3+M is a good number for cable, but it’s not “substantial” over all. One must get it into perspective. Most people are NOT watching any of these debates. That is a fact, randy.
Comment by StephenMartin — November 17, 2007 @ 3:28 pm
But are these numbers really all that surprising? I mean, as time goes on, and the election actually gets closer… shouldn’t the numbers go up?
I’ve been saying from the beginning, there are too many debates… but as it gets closer to voting time, more people will actually start paying attention.
Comment by ImNotBlue — November 17, 2007 @ 4:24 pm
You guys all know if Rush Limbaugh had a 1 hour show on cable news he would get 5 to 10 million viewers EVERY NIGHT.
Comment by foxmeansbusiness — November 18, 2007 @ 12:28 am
No he wouldn’t Foxmeansbusiness because he would say something stupid and get kicked off in 5 minutes like Imus.
Comment by Aaron — November 18, 2007 @ 11:10 pm
If Rush did,then my guess is that 5 million viewers would get themselves informed then.
Comment by yeeyo — November 19, 2007 @ 1:21 pm