Cable News Ratings: Top 25 Primetime Programs For October 2011 (PHOTOS, POLL)

October's cable news ratings are out, and Fox News reigned again. The perennial first place network claimed the top eight primetime shows last month. One of those shows was "The Five," the replacement show to Glenn Beck and a new addition to the network's permanent line-up.

Below that though, there's more evidence that CNN is making strides with its new line-up and the launch of Erin Burnett's "Outfront." In primetime, the network was up 13% in total viewers and 22% in the all-important 25-54 demographic. Meanwhile, MSNBC's primetime programs -- with the exception of "Hardball" -- were down compared to last October. Even so, MSNBC still came out ahead, showing that CNN has a ways to go.

MSNBC also remains strong in the day, with solid ratings for "Morning Joe" and growth in total viewers for "Andrea Mitchell Reports."

How did individual shows do? Below, see the top 25 primetime cable programs of October 2011.

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1. The O'Reilly Factor (8PM)

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Comments

[steverhsb]

05:27 PM on 12/16/2011

Left or Right...once you lie you are no longer credible. That is why Fox can not be compared to CNN or any news source. They are a propaganda only station.

[getalifeandabarofsoap]

08:38 PM on 11/28/2011

It is funny how the left never seems to seek the truth. You cry when you don't get your way. Studies have found that FOX NEWS is more credible and more accurate than other cable news shows. The American public, not just the conservatives, will renounce your socialist propaganda.
Hmmm, Did anyone in here mention Joy Bayhar? Now there is an example of hard core news at it's best. Oh wait... She was cancelled.

[Eagleman]

11:47 PM on 11/25/2011

Here’s one from the December GQ: the magazine’s list of “The 25 least Influential People Alive” MSNBC’s Ed Schultz comes in at #3.....

…"Then there pundits like Ed Schultz. Do you watch “The Ed Show” on MSNBC? Of course you don’t. No one does. The only reason people watch “The Ed Show” is they’re working out in a hotel gym and they can’t find a staff member to change the channel to ESPN."

[1953]

11:56 AM on 11/13/2011

Is it not time to report the Penn State story properly? The victims are NOT children but adults. They are old enough to vote, go to war and die for us and make life or death decisions. Yes what happened was sick but they have dirt on there hands as well. They allowed it happen instead of reporting it to the school. It's time to show accountability for all parties in all situations.

[watson185]

08:50 AM on 11/22/2011

Blame the victims? Really!?

[annyp]

10:30 PM on 11/11/2011

Must be all these unemployed lazy people, as the GOP calls them watching Fox. I take their viewers much like the abuse that is dished out everyday.

[alwill]

10:22 PM on 11/07/2011

Fox News--Fair and Balanced.
We Report--You Decide.
#1 in cable news for a reason.
Read the ratings and weep Libs. You are in the minority. Maybe if you watched Fox News you would know whats going on in the world.

[Mitchell Wilcox]

03:24 PM on 11/11/2011

lol... good one, i thought you might be trying to be serious for a second or two, but after reading that first line, figured you were joking.

[watson185]

08:58 AM on 11/22/2011

Okay, common sense, one more time, "Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Watch No News: Study Finds". And "Fox News viewers were more likely to believe false information about politics." Enough said.

[RattInnaCage]

05:27 PM on 11/07/2011

Please stop confusing Opinion programming with news programming.

[RattInnaCage]

05:25 PM on 11/07/2011

And they all lost to Spongebob Squarepants.

[vicla1942]

10:17 AM on 11/07/2011

Bill o'reilly has an older following.His show is as much comedy,
game show ,name calling and foolishness as it is politics based on real facts.
Bill is the Jerry Springer of cable opinion shows.

[NormalAmericanMan]

11:58 PM on 11/06/2011

Here we go again... Fox Viewers are going to revel in ignorance.

[Caseybug]

11:34 PM on 11/06/2011

The results are not the least bit surprising, there are more sheeple in America than there are free thinkers.

[floridaviolinist]

11:14 PM on 11/06/2011

Piers Morgan is USELESS!!! CNN, WHY do you continue to bastardize your 9 PM slot???? why??? you're killing yourself with him.

[tootugh]

11:09 PM on 11/06/2011

We have dishnetwork. Their first 2 packages contain fox, but not MSNBC. All initial packages in satelite or cable networks have fox, but not alway MSNBC. That can make the ratings not fair.

[K August]

07:08 PM on 11/06/2011

Trash tabloid sensationalism always outsells other "news".
Murdoch knows that.

[eoagent0007]

03:37 PM on 11/06/2011

O'Reilly, Hannity, The Five, Maddow, O'Donnell, Schultz, and Matthews are not news programs. They are hatchet jobs from the right and left, respectively. If you consistently watch one or the other, you start to believe the bull that each is spewing. It's like the old communist propaganda machine in Eastern Europe, if you didn't allow yourself to fact check their claims and rheteric by listening to the BBC and Radio Free Europe, you start to believe in the bull as is the case with these programs.