Cable News Ratings: Top 30 Programs For Q2 2011 (PHOTOS)

All four top cable news networks had something to celebrate during the second quarter of the 2011 ratings season. Fox News could toast its usual dominance of the ratings, with the top 12 programs in cable news airing on its network as they always do. (Its ratings did fall slightly in both the primetime (down 6%) and total day (down 1%) categories when compared to the same period in 2010, however.) CNN could cheer its double-digit year-on-year growth in both total viewers and the coveted A25-54 demo. (Anderson Cooper's numbers surged by 43%, for example.) MSNBC could gloat over its now-solid berth as the number two cable news network, as well as its ratings stability in the wake of Keith Olbermann's exit. And HLN could throw itself a parade for the hordes of new viewers it attracted to all of its shows, thanks to its non-stop coverage of the Casey Anthony trial.

How did individual shows do? Below, see the top 30 cable news programs of the second quarter of 2011.

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Fox News -- 2.824 million total viewers

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Fox News -- 2.824 million total viewers

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sknkdg said on 29 Wednesday 2011 pm30 8:21 pm: I wonder how Jon Stewart stacks up to their numbers. Might be interesting to know since Fox has started a full-course press against him as of late.

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[Chris1962]

07:29 PM on 08/08/2011

I'd say Fox has it pretty locked up.

[thoreau101]

08:44 PM on 08/02/2011

We are a country that listens to lunatics.

[Minnehaha]

02:22 PM on 07/18/2011

Where oh where will the Fox audience go when the network and Rupert are off the air?

[Aikaterina]

10:57 AM on 07/05/2011

Fox is a propaganda, not a news organization. Every time I watch one of their programs, regardless of who's being interviewed, the prompting and questions asked reveal the host expects a pre-set, scripted answer. They won't interview anyone who's independent, much less progressive in his/her views. Especially after Jon Stewart took Chris Wallace to the shed, and exposed what Faux is all about: presenting their "side" of the issues.

[Impaler]

10:36 AM on 07/05/2011

Wow, Fox has the top 12 spots, I would not have guessed that by the article.

[Dustee]

12:53 PM on 08/03/2011

They only have 'one' station for Republicans to watch...everything else is 'Librul', or so FOX tells them.

[Warren Mart]

02:40 AM on 07/05/2011

Ted Nugent will be doing a show on Faux next--he's nutty enogh

[L3ftofC3nter]

08:35 PM on 07/04/2011

30 million people watch American Idol...doesn't mean it's not crap. The truth of the matter is Television News is dying and I can say that because I work in television news. If you look at Fox and CNN demos, you'll see that their average viewers are around 60 years old. Young people don't watch TV news, they have the internet which is faster with more variety in content. We should be doing a story on who gets the most web hits and you'll see who's leading that race and it's not Fox.

[Warren Mart]

02:40 AM on 07/05/2011

It's totall crap to me I've never watched it and never will

[joel joseph]

07:11 PM on 07/04/2011

Where is free speech on the leftist comment page?

[hoagie76]

07:07 PM on 07/04/2011

I've said it once and I'll say it again: popularity does not = intellectual content. statistically intelligent people have always been the minority in the masses thus ratings mean nothing

[breeze5208]

02:21 PM on 07/04/2011

I don't care how you spin it. Having to go to number thirteen to get to another network is laughable.
And would you please stop with the Alphabet networks out doing Fox. If they are out doing Fox it really speaks to the rest of the cable news networks.

[summerteeth]

02:07 PM on 07/04/2011

"fox NEWS"? that's an oxymoron.

[koyak23]

01:23 PM on 07/04/2011

Among those who have a show on a news network that has not argued in a court of law that it has a right to distort and lie about the news--

Rachel Maddow is # 1 !!!!!!!!

[joel joseph]

06:40 PM on 07/04/2011

In your fantasy

[hoagie76]

07:08 PM on 07/04/2011

in your nightmares

[joel joseph]

11:32 PM on 07/04/2011

ditsy aggressive loud mouth Rachel.

[koyak23]

11:12 AM on 07/05/2011

I've never heard anyone describe a Rhodes Scholar as "ditsy" (sic) before.

[ms.understood]

01:01 PM on 07/04/2011

i'm surprised by some of these numbers, especially with fox news. i guess people enjoy being misinformed.

[jsgaetano]

01:43 PM on 07/04/2011

I think it's that misinformed people prefer going to Faux News, where they can continue to be misinformed.

[firfytr]

01:32 PM on 07/21/2011

You must live in NYC or SF? The fact is most Americans know NBC, ABC, CBS can't be trusted to tell the truth, or mostly just leave it out. They are now permanents wings of the DNC, when was the last time Brian Williams asked Obama a tough question? He's not,and the regular folks know it.

When one of these networks runs a people in flyover country automatically try to find the Obama filter to make sure it doesn't cast him in a bad light.


Until they go back to honest reporting, and view ALL politicians in a cynical fashion, they are gonna continue to lose viewers. The last guy needs to be sure to turn out the lights on the way out at CBS news.

[joel joseph]

06:41 PM on 07/04/2011

Could it be that you are very narrow minded and only want to watch things that you agree with?

[topgun97365]

12:08 PM on 07/04/2011

There are more people in the bathroom than watching Chris with a tingle up my leg Matthews show. Looking at his pathetic ratings it is only a matter of time before the new owners remove him.

[A Meat Beetle]

11:44 AM on 07/04/2011

2.8 million works out to about 0.75% of the total US population. So why do people act like Fox (or ANY of the cable "news" networks) plays a significant role in what happens in this country?

[talkmedown]

12:11 PM on 07/04/2011

30 million news viewers every night, which means the foreign owned nuze network represents just 10%, the main stream is 90%. However, without Faux Nuze, Bush would not have scored his coup d'etat nor could he have done what he did with wars and taxes. It is no coincidence that with the arrival of faux nuze, our public dialogue went into the trash and corps have taken over.

[joel joseph]

06:42 PM on 07/04/2011

cute