Inside Cable News

January 24, 2008

Tuesday’s Numbers…

I don’t know what Prime News was doing Tuesday but whatever it was the 6pm hour won the Demo and placed second in Total Viewers.

Update: Duh. It was Heath Ledger…

Daily Live+SD Ratings for January 22, 2008

Primetime
FNC
CNN
MSNBC
HLN
CNBC

Total Day
FNC
CNN
MSNBC
HLN
CNBC

Mornings (6-9AM)
FNC
CNN
MSNBC
HLN
CNBC

P25-54
473,000
458,000
238,000
227,000
142,000

P25-54
286,000
235,000
143,000
151,000
118,000

P25-54
293,000
164,000
71,000
138,000
81,000

P2+
1,933,000
1,345,000
631,000
598,000
416,000

P2+
1,038,000
677,000
334,000
350,000
401,000

P2+
881,000
461,000
245,000
255,000
254,000

6PM
Special Report
The Situation Room
Tucker
Prime News

7PM
Fox Report
Lou Dobbs
Hardball
Glenn Beck

8PM
The O’Reilly Factor
Lou Dobbs Special
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Nancy Grace

9PM
Hannity & Colmes
Larry King
Dan Abrams Live
Glenn Beck (R)

10PM
On the Record with Greta Van Susteren
Anderson Cooper 360
MSNBC Doc
Nancy Grace (R)

11PM
The O’Reilly Factor (R)
Anderson Cooper 360
MSNBC Doc
Showbiz Tonight

P25-54
330,000
237,000
159,000
481,000

P25-54
419,000
299,000
173,000
253,000

P25-54
524,000
292,000
310,000
306,000

P25-54
473,000
572,000
254,000
202,000

P25-54
423,000
509,000
151,000
198,000

P25-54
382,000
341,000
188,000
264,000

P2+
1,619,000
794,000
416,000
855,000

P2+
1,581,000
1,050,000
478,000
477,000

P2+
2,647,000
1,089,000
858,000
782,000

P2+
1,820,000
1,692,000
645,000
615,000

P2+
1,332,000
1,254,000
390,000
437,000

P2+
1,053,000
744,000
385,000
581,000

Filed under: Cable News, Ratings - Spud

13 Comments »

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  1. Hey Spud, any luck getting your hands on the CNBC figures?

    Morning Joe is incredibly volitile in the ratings — on Monday it had 200k plus in the demo alone, Tuesday it was dead last (even below CNBC). How come?

    Comment by Anonymous — January 24, 2008 @ 7:36 pm

  2. Hey, Keith…..what happened to your boast you were beating O’Reilly???

    You’re not even visable in a oversized rear view mirror…..

    Ain’t gonna happen, Bro.

    Comment by Nick D. — January 24, 2008 @ 7:38 pm

  3. I see KO edged out Nancy Grace(barely)to stay out of the cellar for the 8pm slot.

    Comment by rick — January 24, 2008 @ 8:10 pm

  4. Nice night for Tucker.
    Good night for AC 360 vs Greta
    Larry King is up there
    Heath Ledger really is driving this news cycle then.

    >WORLD AFFAIRS
    >POLITICS
    >OPINIONS
    >TUCKER

    Comment by Aaron — January 24, 2008 @ 9:12 pm

  5. I’m not sure it’s why, but wasn’t Joe not on Morning Joe on tues?

    Comment by chase — January 24, 2008 @ 11:00 pm

  6. What happened to Out in the Open?

    Comment by J. Vazquez — January 25, 2008 @ 12:23 am

  7. Well I suppose it has to be something driving the news cycle, because it certainitly isn’t Iraq.

    Comment by Paco — January 25, 2008 @ 1:02 am

  8. chase-

    Yes, Joe wasn’t on Morning Joe on Tuesday. Chris Matthews filled in for him.

    Comment by Christopher — January 25, 2008 @ 7:53 am

  9. How sweet is it that Lou Dobbs beat out KO? And KO hasn’t beat Bill O’Reilly except in his dreams…hell, he can’t even beat Bill when Bill is off!!!

    Comment by Kris — January 25, 2008 @ 10:10 am

  10. Amazing!! Hillary exposed today showing her in a white house pic with Rezko, the guy she called a slumlord while attacking Obama in last weeks debate. More amazing is all morning i have been flipping between CNN and MSNBC and not 1 mention of this. Of course the truth tellers at Fox News have shown it a dozen times or so. http://drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

    Comment by foxmeansbusiness — January 25, 2008 @ 11:11 am

  11. Maybe the should put Lou Dobbs against Olbermann & O’Reilly more often. He did pretty good tonight.

    Comment by untitled — January 25, 2008 @ 11:55 am

  12. All my life I’ve gravitated toward lower-rated television programs. I guess my tastes aren’t mainstream.

    I’m a liberal who loves KO and I’d just as soon he remained #2 in the ratings. I usually enjoy his jabs against O’Reilly, and if he were #1 he’d likely have to stop. I used to work in radio and I well remember the unwritten rule that you always punch up, never down. A lower-rated station can gain attention for itself by derisively invoking the name(s) of the top-rated station or its talent (especially if the two stations have a similar format), but the #1 station would be nuts to grant free publicity to its antagonist by responding. I’m sure the same rule applies to news television.

    But if KO is trying to achieve #1, he could certainly take heart that O’Reilly’s show had been on the air for some 5 or 6 years before it began to dominate the ratings, if I remember correctly.

    And I wouldn’t be too excited about Dobbs beating Olbermann in P2+, Kris. Unless of course you really enjoy those erectile dysfunction adverts.

    Comment by berberry — January 25, 2008 @ 12:54 pm

  13. #12:

    Good point regarding punch up vs punch down. That’s why Olby tries to bait BOR/Limbaugh et al into mentioning his name with all of those crazy comments and antics. The moment one of them responds, KO will use it in an ad or brag about it on KOS.

    Comment by eddiebear — January 25, 2008 @ 1:06 pm

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