Inside Cable News

December 3, 2007

Friday’s Numbers…

Cable News Daily Live Ratings for November 30, 2007

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 959,000 viewers
CNN – 554,000 viewers
MSNBC – 321,000 viewers
CNBC – 247,000 viewers
HLN – 257,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 1,684,000 viewers
CNN – 880,000 viewers
MSNBC- 590,000 viewers
CNBC –235,000 viewers
HLN – 423,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC – 249,000 viewers
CNN – 181,000 viewers
MSNBC – 129,000 viewers
CNBC – 74,000 viewers
HLN- 97,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 335,000 viewers
CNN – 220,000 viewers
MSNBC – 239,000 viewers
CNBC – 82,000 viewers
HLN –125,000 viewers

Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 885,000 viewers (221,000)
American Morning- 415,000 viewers (167,000)
Morning Joe – 233,000 viewers (62,000)
Morning Express w/ Meade- 201,000 viewers (108,000)

6PM - P2+ (25-54)
Special Report with Brit Hume – 1,438,000 viewers (286,000)
Situation Room- 843,000 viewers (286,000)
Tucker Carlson- 326,000 viewers (104,000)
Mad Money – 271,000 viewers (93,000)
Prime News- 301,000 viewers (113,000)

7PM - P2+ (25-54)
FOX Report with Shepard Smith – 1,206,000 viewers (235,000)
Lou Dobbs – 1,055,000 viewers (261,000)
Hardball – 483,000 viewers (153,000)
Kudlow & Company- 214,000 viewers (a scratch with 40,000)
Glenn Beck – 284,000 viewers (108,000)

8PM - P2+ (25-54)
O’Reilly Factor- 2,202,000 viewers (375,000) LSD: 2,223,000 viewers (390,000)
Anderson Cooper– 783,000 viewers (201,000) LSD: 786,000 viewers (203,000)
Countdown w/ Olbermann - 858,000 viewers (272,000) LSD: 933,000 viewers (308,000)
Fast Money- 173,000 viewers (57,000) LSD: 173,000 viewers (57,000) **Ran from 8-8:30PM ET
High Net Worth- 207,000 viewers (86,000) LSD: 207,000 viewers (86,000) **Ran from 8:30-9PM ET
Nancy Grace – 579,000 viewers (193,000) LSD: 581,000 viewers (193,000)

9 PM - P2+ (25-54)
Hannity & Colmes- 1,475,000 viewers (286,000)
Larry King Live- 991,000 viewers (218,000)
MSNBC Investigates – 513,000 viewers (232,000)
Warren Buffett: Global- 392,000 viewers (123,000)
Glenn Beck- 352,000 viewers (65,000)

10 PM P2+ (25-54)
On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren- 1,375,000 viewers (344,000)
Anderson Cooper- 867,000 viewers (243,000)
MSNBC Special- 362,000 viewers (170,000) **Ran from 10-10:30PM ET
MSNBC Special- 434,000 viewers (257,000) **Ran from 10:30-11PM ET
Donny Deutsch- 122,000 viewers (a scratch with 52,000)
Nancy Grace – 380,000 viewers (136,000)

11 PM P2+ (25-54)
O’Reilly Factor- 1,025,000 viewers (286,000)
CNN Special Investigations Unit – 500,000 viewers (208,000)
MSNBC Special – 376,000 viewers (237,000)
Mad Money– 125,000 viewers (89,000)
Showbiz Tonight – 465,000 viewers (164,000)

Filed under: Cable News, Ratings - Spud

8 Comments »

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  1. Spud - How are the ratings counted? Do company and satellite companies keep track of who is watching what through our cable boxes?

    I’m proud to be one of those Imus people. I’m hooked on your website now. I have learned a lot about cable news.

    Comment by Susan — December 3, 2007 @ 8:15 pm

  2. Congrats to Lou on the demo win! And I’m glad that CNN decided to go with a live 360 instead of taped programming — their Friday’s are slowly starting to look like MSNBC’s (they were also planning to put on taped stuff at 8pm before the news broke).

    Comment by Anonymous — December 3, 2007 @ 8:33 pm

  3. Wow! Robin skews young. They should just simulcast that on CNN.

    Comment by Jordan — December 3, 2007 @ 8:44 pm

  4. Looks like ALF didn’t help BOR, with the possible exception of slightly higher than normal LSD numbers.

    Comment by Grandpa D — December 3, 2007 @ 8:53 pm

  5. Now that Imus is back, I’ll bet Morning Joe’s numbers go down even further. It’s great to have the “I” man back on the air. Too bad he didn’t return to MSNBC or another
    cable station. RFD is not carried everywhere.

    Comment by Bob — December 3, 2007 @ 8:54 pm

  6. their Friday’s are slowly starting to look like MSNBC’s (they were also planning to put on taped stuff at 8pm before the news broke).

    They’ve been advertising a special “Lifting the Veil” for this Friday, so we might be out of luck again as far as a live show goes on Friday’s 360. For a few weeks a while back Anderson was in on Fridays doing a live hour.

    Comment by Marty — December 3, 2007 @ 9:52 pm

  7. 933,000 viewers (308,000) heard Olbermann brag about his penis…yikes!

    Comment by Obama in 08! — December 4, 2007 @ 1:00 pm

  8. “933,000 viewers (308,000) heard Olbermann brag about his penis…yikes!

    Comment by Obama in 08!”

    Too funny, O in 08
    I hope he doesn’t decide to fall back on that material on a regular basis like those special comments, just to bring up ratings or as the basis of a book. lol

    Comment by Char — December 4, 2007 @ 4:23 pm

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