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Below is in 100,000's. So for instance Beck at the 5 pm slot had 2,927,000 viewers while Blitzer in the same spot at CNN had 747,000 viewers. This is important as we move to ABC, NBC and CBS evening news ratings below Cable Ratings.
The Scoreboard: Friday, September 18
Total Viewers: (L +SD)
Total day: FNC: 1724 | CNN: 579 | MSNBC: 416 | HLN: 299
Prime: FNC: 2745 | CNN: 748 | MSNBC: 809 | HLN: 470
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| 5p: | 6p: | 7p: | 8p: | 9p: | 10p: | 11p: | |
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| FNC | Beck: | Baier: | Shep: | O'Reilly: | Hannity: | Greta: | O'Reilly: |
| 2927 | 2239 | 1912 | 3447 | 2622 | 2163 | 1847 | |
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| CNN | Blitzer: | Blitzer: | Dobbs: | Brown: | King: | Cooper: | Cooper: |
| 747 | 605 | 499 | 584 | 961 | 698 | 534 | |
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| MSNBC | Matthews: | EdShow: | Matthews: | Olbermann: | Maddow: | Olbermann: | Maddow: |
| 492 | 635 | 597 | 973 | 924 | 530 | 458 | |
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| HLN | Prime: | Prime: | Issues: | Grace: | Issues: | Grace: | Showbiz: |
| 209 | 261 | 370 | 599 | 402 | 454 | 374 | |
But what is even more interesting is that Fox News of all the cable channels period has been ranked in the top 5 for both Day time and Primetime on cable in August and about the same in July.
Primetime Cable Rankings Aug 09: Fox #3, CNN #22, MSNBC #25
In August, Fox News was again in the top three for primetime in all of cable, which is seven of eight months this year. FNC was also in the top five in total day.
| Network | Total Day Rank | Primetime Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Fox News | 5 | 3 |
| CNN | 20 | 22 |
| MSNBC | 28 | 25 |
• Full rankings for August.
FNC had the top 11 programs in cable news for Total Viewers in August and 9 of the top 10 in the A25-54 demo ("The O'Reilly Factor," "Hannity," and "Glenn Beck" leading the way in both, respectively). MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" came in #12 in Total Viewers (#9 in demo) and "Rachel Maddow" came in #16 (#11 demo). CNN's "Larry King Live" ranked #13 in Total Viewers and #13 in the demo. Fox News' strong showing in the demo helped make August their best month in primetime demo for 2009.
• Cable news program rankings for August (sorted by total viewers)."
Now the Evening News Ratings for the whole week of September 7 at ABC, NBC and CBS equaled 19,550,000 viewers which is actually a low end week for the Big Three and if you compare that to Fox News total prime time (8-11pm) viewership for the same week Fox News had 17,045,000 viewers. So even though Fox dominates cable it clearly doesn't dominate over the Big Three.
