"Hannity" Ratings HUGE On Sarah Palin Interview, Beats O'Reilly

Now Bill O'Reilly might really be mad.

After O'Reilly reportedly threw a "hissyfit" because Sean Hannity's interview with Sarah Palin would air before his, the ratings show Wednesday's "Hannity" was a huge hit and even beat "The O'Reilly Factor."

"Hannity" was the top show on cable news Wednesday, averaging 4.200 million total viewers and 1.149 million viewers in the A25-54 demographic. That's more than O'Reilly's 3.868 million total viewers/1.065 million A25-54 viewers and enough for the second highest "Hannity" episode of 2009 (behind only Election Night 2009, when he averaged 4.224 million total viewers).

Palin recently lifted Oprah to her best ratings in two years.

Elsewhere at 9PM Wednesday, Rachel Maddow came in second with 957,000 total viewers and 273,000 A25-54, while Larry King placed third with 835,000 total viewers and 208,000 A25-54.

Rounding out the top five programs among total viewers in cable news Wednesday were three more Fox News programs: "Glenn Beck," which averaged 2.512 million, "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren," which averaged 2.383 million, and "Special Report with Bret Baier," which got a boost from Major Garrett's interview of President Obama to average 2.235 million total viewers.

Comments

[coveark]

11:54 PM on 11/22/2009

What can you expect from their audience..­..........­..........­........br­illiance??­?

Those who follow Sarah .........


I would love to sell them numerous bridges...­..........­..........­.....to the Sahara

[mapmaker515]

10:36 PM on 11/22/2009

Don't get mad Bill...get even. Book Michelle Bachmann. Equally vapid and insane.

[JuanEmilio]

07:05 AM on 11/24/2009

LOL. Fantastic.

[ILuvBubbles]

10:06 PM on 11/22/2009

There goes 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back, sigh.

[AuntLoonie]

07:19 PM on 11/22/2009

From the "Unbelieva­bly Funny and Ironic and Fitting" category - Google the words "Going rogue british slang".

[lafayette2009]

09:21 PM on 11/22/2009

Well that explains why Rush Limbaugh is so excited about the book and said it was one of the best he's ever read. He probably didn't get past the title.

[caseyblab]

04:56 PM on 11/22/2009

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[madmonk66]

04:27 PM on 11/22/2009

Uh oh, the Manatee had better watch out. Bill orally's bound to send some of his stalker producers to have a word with him. Maybe even the dreaded (and invisible) Fox security.

[hopesome]

02:51 PM on 11/22/2009

Sarah Palin likes the attention of the media and 'those in high places, or who think they are.

When some say that she would be an asset to the White House then I know why America says to the Lord : God (please) bless America. She has left a mess behind her in Alaska which does not bode well for her CV as the next president now does it. She seeks the sympathy vote through her son and is operating on a level of understand­ing and communicat­ion that is not of any planet that I know off.

Seriously America wake up to reality before its too late.

[Darryl Milam]

01:32 PM on 11/22/2009

my friends on here didn't believe me but i told you she was energizing­.

[mancoff]

12:30 AM on 11/25/2009

She's not energizing­, people just like to watch and see what outrageous or dumb things she is going to say. It's just like watching that movie "Borat", it was awful, it was obscene, it was really funny in parts and like other people I talked to who said the kept hoping no one would see them in the theatre, I felt ashamed that I had ever gone to see it. But I had to see for myself what all the fuss was all about. Once I saw it, I vowed never again to see something that bad again. That's pretty much, Sarah Palin, one silly, no redeeming qualities, senseless, Borat movie.

[imsosure]

04:48 AM on 11/22/2009

I don't any use for her until you get below her neck.

[CATNIP1]

09:43 PM on 11/22/2009

I'm pretty sure Hannity and Rush were thinking the same. They both have the x-ray glasses on .

[lemondade]

10:26 PM on 11/21/2009

my name is sarah palin. i moved from idaho to alaska to advance my career. i am best known for my beauthy queen days. i look really good in shorts. people like me because i am pretty and have really nifty glasses. my hair is shiny. and i know this qualifies me to hold the most powerful office in the country. i used to love the name levi because it reminded me of my favorite pose in jeans. but now, i really can't say that i like the name levi. ya betcha.

[sandrasamnick]

04:01 AM on 11/22/2009

my name is barry and this is my resume

http://mar­ketoracle.­ws/Article­15213.html

[mancoff]

12:43 AM on 11/25/2009

Oh, I forgot to tell ya, if you work really, really hard and study really, really hard, and care about the importance of work ethics, you are just wastin time because look at me, a lot of really, really, dumb people love me a really, really, lot and I can make a buncha money off of them without my ever havin to know much about anything. That's Amurica for you, you can fool some of the people some of the time but I can fool alot of people most of the time and most of the people I fool don't even know what I'm talkin about but, ha, ha, ha, neether do I, myself. Do you think I care, nahhhhhh..­....think I can go on foolin them? Well as long as they are dumb enough to wear them tea bags, you betcha, I can.......­..........

[liberalbug]

10:08 PM on 11/21/2009

Sean Hannity is a meat head.

[hypnotoad72]

08:44 PM on 11/21/2009

Why should Bill O get mad, per the headline I clicked on to get here? it's the nature of the biz. All that competitio­n devaluing wages...

[llovejim]

08:34 PM on 11/21/2009

and the ratings for So You Can Think You Can Dance is probably 25 times more than for Mad Men....but which show is better? Have you actually tried to watch the Fox prime time line-up? It's like chewing aluminum foil while rubbing the top of your head with a cheese grater..

[thos]

07:42 PM on 11/21/2009

Keith-O and Madd-O are even more upset!

[Rebentisch]

04:48 PM on 11/21/2009

Beyond doubt Sean Hannity is the American Voltaire of the 21st century.

[hypnotoad72]

08:44 PM on 11/21/2009

More like Attila the Hun...

[SpeakingTruth101]

09:08 PM on 11/21/2009

Yes, Voltaire made up stories of fiction too. Of course, I don't think Voltaire was known as such a cowering weasel.