The Scoreboard: Tuesday, February 7 (Revealing Cable News Show Stats)

MediaBistro ^ | February 7, 2006 | Brian Stelter:

[PJ-Comix]

25-54 demographic:

Total day: FNC: 295,000 / CNN: 139,000 / MSNBC: 105,000 / HLN: 94,000 / CNBC: 79,000

Primetime: FNC: 507,000 / CNN: 233,000 / MSNBC: 145,000 / HLN: 151,000 / CNBC: 104,000

4pm: Cavuto: 235,000 / Blitzer: 106,000 / MSNBC: 83,000 / Closing Bell: 95,000

5pm: Gibson: 244,000 / Blitzer: 96,000 / Hardball: 197,000 / Kudlow: 69,000

6pm: Hume: 464,000 / Dobbs: 103,000 / Abrams: 152,000 / Mad Money: 127,000

7pm: Shep: 496,000 / Blitzer: 195,000 / Hardball: 158,000 / Showbiz: 94,000 / On The Money: 85,000

8pm: O'Reilly: 589,000 / Zahn: 153,000 / Countdown: 169,000 / Grace: 214,000 / Deal or No Deal: 131,000

9pm: H&C: 538,000 / King: 274,000 / Rita: 128,000 / Prime News: 134,000 / Mad Money repeat: 49,000

10pm: Greta: 396,000 / Cooper: 273,000 / Scarborough: 138,000 / Grace repeat: 106,000 / Big Idea: 132,000

11pm: O'Reilly: 323,000 / Cooper: 171,000 / Situation: 113,000 / Showbiz repeat: 79,000 / Deal or No Deal repeat: 114,000

Total viewers:

Total day: FNC: 918,000 / CNN: 470,000 / MSNBC: 281,000 / HLN: 226,000 / CNBC: 204,000

Primetime: FNC: 1,852,000 / CNN: 767,000 / MSNBC: 359,000 / HLN: 455,000 / CNBC: 172,000

4pm: Cavuto: 965,000 / Blitzer: 573,000 / MSNBC: 291,000

5pm: Gibson: 1,023,000 / Blitzer: 505,000 / Hardball: 425,000

6pm: Hume: 1,524,000 / Dobbs: 533,000 / Abrams: 358,000

7pm: Shep: 1,642,000 / Blitzer: 757,000 / Hardball: 412,000 / Showbiz: 179,000

8pm: O'Reilly: 2,541,000 / Zahn: 612,000 / Countdown: 441,000 / Grace: 645,000

9pm: H&C: 1,736,000 / King: 899,000 / Rita: 332,000 / Prime News: 384,000

10pm: Greta: 1,279,000 / Cooper: 790,000 / Scarborough: 302,000 / Grace repeat: 336,000

11pm: O'Reilly repeat: 1,067,000 / Cooper: 468,000 / Situation: 229,000 / Showbiz repeat: 164,000

[saveliberty]

I know, I am grateful :-) Please don't think that I am being unfriendly

[F16Fighter]

"Interesting drop off in Fox viewers when Greta comes on."

The woman puts the Sandman to sleep.

[leadhead]

Out of 250 million people, these five can only come up with 2 million viewers?

Not a number that would indicate any impact on America as a whole.

[elli1]

Interesting drop off in Fox viewers when Greta comes on. I wonder if the drop was as bad before she took that time slot.

Bad as Greta is, check the numbers on the other shows. CNN & MSNBC wish they had that many viewers for any of their shows.

[elli1]

Travelling the hockey/ ice rink/ motel circuit this year, I've noticed considerably more 'public' tv's tuned to FoxNews over CNN from last season to this.

[saveliberty]

:-) Woo hoo!

[Rocket1968]

Dunkin Donuts (6 or 7) franchises in my city are owned by two different families fairly evenly split. CNN is on in stores owned by one of the families, FNC in the others. Guess where I buy most of my coffee?

[USS Alaska]

Travelling the hockey/ ice rink/ motel circuit this year, I've noticed considerably more 'public' tv's tuned to FoxNews over CNN from last season to this.

While golfing in Florida in January, I visited my share of pubs and almost everyone had FNC on the tube.

[elli1]

Yeh...I credit Aaron Brown with the shift. He put all 10 or 12 cnn viewers to sleep, giving Fox fans a chance to slip in & change the channel.

[Miss Marple]

True. However, I wonder how many of those are Fox viewers who migrate to another network to check on news and aren't interested in the true crime stories on Greta's show.

She is capable of doing good work; she had an excellent show during the Iraq invasion and immediately after.

However, she reverts to what she is most familiar with when there isn't any urgent news, and I think there are quite a few news viewers who aren't interested.

[Pop Fly]

CNN is just becoming an emabarassment at this point. Cooper LIVE at 11 gets less than half the audience of an O'Reilly REPEAT.

CNN is becoming totally irrelevant.

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