Cable Ratings

Viewers Turn To Cable News For 2012 Campaign Coverage

Posted 02.07.2012

More people are turning to cable news for information about the 2012 presidential campaign than other forms of media, according to Pew Research Center...

Cable News Ratings 2011: Top 30 Programs Of The Year

Posted 12.29.2011

2011 is drawing to a close, which means it is now time to report year-end ratings for cable news shows. As in previous months and years, Fox News dom...

Black People a.k.a 'Captain Save-An-O' (As in Oprah) to the Rescue

Morris W. O'Kelly | Posted 02.11.2012

Morris W. O'Kelly

The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has been struggling as of late. That's not breaking news. Desperate times call for desperate measures and that too is not breaking news.

USA Network Trounces Rivals

Adweek | September 28 2010 | Posted 10.25.2011

Rival cable channels cannot conquer USA Network, they can only hope to contain it. With less than a week to go before the sun sets on another summe...

The Top 10 Cable Networks Of 2010

Posted 05.25.2011

Now that 2010 is drawing to a close, everyone's reflecting on the year behind us--even cable networks, who are touting their total ratings for the las...

Top 10 Cable Networks For Q2: See Who Made The List

Posted 05.25.2011

The second quarter of 2010 has come to a close, and that means rankings have been released for the top cable networks in primetime. Below are the top ...

Top 10 Cable Networks In Primetime For Q1 2010

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

As March comes to an end, so does the first quarter of 2010. Below, see the 10 top-rated cable networks in primetime for Q1 and how they stacked up a...

Hannity Ousts O'Reilly As Top Cable News Telecast Of Week

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

"Hannity" ousted "The O'Reilly Factor" as the top cable news telecast of last week. Sean Hannity's Wednesday interview of Sarah Palin averaged 4.200 ...

Cable Ranker: USA, Fox News Back In Top Two Spots

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

With the NBA playoffs off cable and on ABC, USA and Fox News reclaimed the top two spots in the primetime cable ratings last week (the week of June 1-...

May 2009 Cable Rankings: TNT #1 In Primetime, Fox News Top 5 In Primetime and Total Day

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

Fox News ranked #4 in total viewers among all cable channels in primetime for the month of May 2009, according to Nielsen Media Research. TNT rode NB...

Fox News Among Top 5 Cable Channels In NBA-Dominated Week

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

Fox News was the #4 ranked cable channel in primetime last week, a week dominated by the NBA playoffs. Fox News Channel averaged 1.89 million total v...

Cable Channels Gain On Broadcast Networks

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 05.25.2011

AS the cable channels that populate the television dial conclude their advance advertising sales, they have something to celebrate: they made much gre...

Sen. Reed's Dem. Response Beats Bush Speech In Cable Ratings On Fox, CNN

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

In what was billed as a major televised address on Iraq, President Bush last week "recycled tired rhetoric" and "mumbo jumbo" about staying the course...