Wow, MSNBC is waaaaaaaaaay down the list....and, oh my, look where the Daily Show is.....

[a kennedy]

CABLE NEWS RACE
TUES FEB 10, 2015

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2,947,000
FOXNEWS KELLY 2,315,000
FOXNEWS FIVE 2,283,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,181,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,906,000
CMDY DAILY SHOW 1,648,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 1,353,000
FOXNEWS FOX AND FRIENDS 952,000
MSNBC MADDOW 825,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 671,000
CNN COOPER 655,000
MSNBC HAYES 597,000
CNN NEW DAY 381,000
MSNBC MORNING JOE 341,000

and sorry, got it from http://www.drudgereport.com/

[Sanity Claws]

1. Look where morning joe is!

Haha. He's not a favorite of many people. Why isn't he off the air with ratings like that?

[postulater]

2. That's TV, right? Who watches tv?

The medium is a dinosaur. It doesn't respond like the internet does. The onlycontrol is to change channels. I bet most of the Fox numbers are on screens that are in beauty shops and taverns.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Lots of people watch TV and even TV News, it's just that virtually no one watches Cable News

ABC News’ “World News Tonight with David Muir” averaged 9.460 million Total Viewers, 2.346 million Adults 25-54 and 1.553 million Adults 18-49 during the week of February 2, 2015, based on Live +Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research.

NBC had about 250,000 fewer Total Viewers and CBS about a million less, so in the neighborhood of 25 million Total Viewers for Broadcast Network News each night. The lowest rated network gets twice the ratings of the best cable news hour.
Cable News is a niche market that few Americans actually watch with any regularity at all. You see the numbers.

[a kennedy]

6. At the dentist yesterday, and was so thankful, The View was on......*gag*

but at least it wasn't on faux, as the dentist IS a huge fan of that crap.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. Nobody's numbers are from beauty shops and taverns and such.

[brooklynite]

3. UNREC

First, this is a one day instance. Could the fact that everyone had just heard about John Stewart announcing his retirement possible affect viewership?

Second, the bottom two shows are AM news rather than PM Primetime.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. It's pretty typical, cable news gets terrible numbers always. It is a niche market without growth.

Many liberal people have this idea that cable news is popular with Americans, they hear Fox News say 'We are number one' and they buy into the idea without examining the numbers, nor considering that #1 in a niche market means '#1 compared to the other two' and not '#1 in TV News' nor '#1 In our time slot' nor even '#1 in cable in our time slot'.
Compared to broadcast network news, cable's news audience is very small, even if you combine all the cable outlets they still do not beat even one broadcast network in Total Viewers or in demo viewers. Not even close.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. CABLE NEWS

[JaneyVee]

7. Amazing how FOX brags about ratings...

They get the same 3 million people to watch every day out of a country of 320 Million.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Thanks for noticing this!!! I post about the ratings realities frequently, cable is a lightly

watched niche market. The broadcast network newscasts each get viewers in the 7-10 million range, each of the three do that nightly. So combined the networks have over 20 million nightly viewers...cable news is not popular with Americans at all.

[HappyMe]

9. Drudge?

I really don't worry about this kind of thing.

[B Calm]

11. With 300 million people living in the US, they're all down the list!

[DrDan]

12. 7 of the top-8 go to FOX - how sad for the U.S.

[Dawgs]

13. The average age of Fox News viewers is like 70. n/t

[DrDan]

16. they vote

[Dawgs]

17. So? n/t

[DrDan]

18. their opinions are influenced by FOX - and they vote based on those opinions

what was your point about FOX viewers being "like 70"?

I really did not think it was a nebulous comment. Their vote is counted as if it came from a 20-ish voter.

[Motown_Johnny]

15. MSNBC isn't basic cable

People need to pay extra for it.

[flamingdem]

19. Glad to see Chris Hayes made the cut

was surprised that Tweety rated so high, go Tweety I guess