Cable News Ratings: Top 30 Programs For November 2011 (PHOTOS, POLL)

November's cable news ratings are out and here we go again! Like clockwork, Fox News dominated the ratings. Still, every network had an interesting story to tell.

Fox News saw its numbers drop by double digits in primetime, total day and A25-54 viewers compared to 2010. This isn't totally surprising, since that was a major election year, but the drops were steep; for instance, the network was down 30% in the demo for primetime.

MSNBC's primetime programming brought in bigger ratings than last month, which tipped the ratings war scale between the network and CNN back in its favor. MSNBC attributes its ratings climb to the reshuffling of Lawrence O'Donnell's "The Last Word," with Ed Shultz's "The Ed Show."

CNN however, experienced ratings growth of its own across the board. Compared to November 2010, CNN grew 4% in Total Day viewing. Anderson Cooper's "AC 360" 8:00 p.m. airing also improved over 40% in total viewing, compared to this month last year. (Piers Morgan, unfortunately, saw his ratings slide a bit below the numbers Larry King was posting on his farewell tour in 2010, though he has managed to top King's ratings overall this year.) CNN also beat MSNBC in the daytime.

How did individual shows fare? Below, see the top 30 cable news programs of November.

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Comments

[WARHUKKER]

05:53 PM on 03/15/2012

Maddow doesn't even beat O'Reillys repeat.

[Bavatar]

06:59 AM on 01/27/2012

Of course the right still pushes the lie that Fox is not part of the "mainstream media." News flash: Fox is the MOST mainstream of news media. One cannot be number one with the most viewers (albeit most misinformed viewers) in the ratings and not be mainstream. It is a logical impossibility.

[tef59]

12:48 AM on 01/24/2012

Yay! People are going to get smarter! Oh wait...maybe they all went to CNN: Fox News Lite...

[Rita Wood Devins]

05:27 AM on 12/28/2011

Fox News Tumbles Really???? Who are you trying to Fool??? Not Working HuffPo!!!

[bgrobbins]

12:10 PM on 12/07/2011

Hanging on with white knuckles , hoping the world will return to the 1950s

[Lydia Pinto]

11:47 AM on 12/07/2011

MSNBC'd have gone bankrupt a long time ago if it wasn't for GE.

[seanathairTim]

06:12 PM on 12/05/2011

Fox "News" qualifies for ratings?

[josafa10]

08:21 PM on 12/06/2011

If yoyu drive on the highway the same way you think, you wouldn't make it to the 1st exit! Left always meant "ackward"...

[S Omoruyi]

04:36 PM on 12/05/2011

it has nothing to do with elections more and more people aren't able to afford cable

[Mil-ford]

10:19 AM on 12/07/2011

I would bet over 50% on food stamps or some govt welfare have cable.

[BethanySchnepally]

02:51 PM on 12/05/2011

"FOX's Ratings Tumble!" says the headline on the Politics home page... Um... they are the top 13 shows. Even if they tumble, no other network scooted up to take a higher slot.

Silly headlines. HufPo needs new writers to be considered a legitimate news source.

[JPETERB]

06:24 PM on 12/05/2011

The FOX show ratings fell down from where they were at the last survey. That is what 'tumbled' as in 'tumbled down' means. So the headline is correct, if a bit exaggerated. Normal for the print news media and press for hundreds of years. Here is a much worse example, with no truth at all, but the ugly lie nested is in a dishonest 'questioning' of the truth.

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FoxNation's Misleading Headline About Town Hall Meetings. Posted on Jul 6, 2009 in Fox Nation | Comments 0 comments. On Friday, July 3, 2009, The Fox ...

[ROOVEN]

12:08 AM on 12/06/2011

Come on!!! This is why HuffPost will remain a LEFT WING biased agency...just say it like it is...FOX IS NUMBER ONE...HUFFPOST DOES NOT AGREE WITH WHAT FOX SAYS, BUT IT IS NUMBER ONE!! If you stop making up stories and report the truth, your base may grow. Probably not.

[Lydia Pinto]

11:50 AM on 12/07/2011

The liberals are mad. Even on huffingtonpost rofl

[AbrahamMcLemore]

02:37 PM on 12/05/2011

Quite a 'tumble'.
All the way down to first place (again).
Can I be a headline writer?

[INLO1950]

12:57 PM on 12/05/2011

You have to go all the way to #14 to find a Non Fox site. I am sure HufPo is excited that Maddow is close to 1M views but her real competition is still twice the numbers. And O'Reilly is a better writer.

[dread]

11:03 AM on 12/05/2011

The population of the US is 335 million people. Bill O'Reilly gets 3 million viewers. That is less than 1% of the population. Also it is wrong to call that clown's show "NEWS' .

[AbrahamMcLemore]

02:39 PM on 12/05/2011

Your point is.......?
The article compares Fox with MSNBC and the others.
And, O'Reilly calls his show 'opinion' as does Maddow and Olbermann.

[BethanySchnepally]

02:52 PM on 12/05/2011

And it's wrong to say Maddow is news. "Maddow Attacks!" "Maddow Rips!" "Maddow Shreds!"

If those are her redeeming headlines on HuffPo, it doesn't seem like she's being very unbiased as a journalist, thus not a qualified "news" source.

[nancynance]

10:02 PM on 12/04/2011

It's laughable when Huffington Post writes that Fox News is tumbling. It's more wishful thinking. Even their repeats win over the others. I guess you think by saying it, it'll happen. Not so. Makes HP seems very petty and small. Obviously you think your readers are stupid.

[heapOtrouble]

12:02 PM on 12/05/2011

I don't think they think the readers are stew pit, but definitely makes the viewers of that comedy channel phox "news" stew pit...

especially since there is nothing remotely like news on that channel.

[Emmazon]

07:54 PM on 12/05/2011

And THAT is precisely why the phox phollowers watch.

[Mil-ford]

10:22 AM on 12/07/2011

"stew pit"?

[ruburnt]

08:35 PM on 12/04/2011

LOL...O'Reillys REPEAT is still beating out Maddow and the rest of the field......

[heapOtrouble]

12:02 PM on 12/05/2011

How stew pit must his viewers be....

They can watch walking dead if they like horror.

[BethanySchnepally]

02:53 PM on 12/05/2011

What's that about being "stew pit"? Grammar is key to showing your intelligence in a written forum.

[Emmazon]

07:55 PM on 12/05/2011

I'm so glad I don't watch what most amerimorons watch. It lets me know I'm doing the right thing. I'll take brains and low ratings any day.

[Rita Wood Devins]

05:31 AM on 12/28/2011

Good! They certainly don't need you!

[liberal53]

08:34 PM on 12/04/2011

Woe to the literacy and values of our country when the top 13 information shows come from Fox....

[JPETERB]

06:29 PM on 12/05/2011

Note: this is ONLY those people who actually watch TV news and were polled. Not the US population at large who do generally not waste their time with the Action McNews entertainment as misinformation departments of the Big Six media combines.

[Counter Sniper]

07:43 PM on 12/05/2011

Information?..........Hardly!

Propaganda and mis-information......Indeed!

[wecarroll207]

06:37 PM on 12/06/2011

Give specifics, please