America Watched Katrina

File Under: Cable News Ratings

TVNewser has the ratings from Sunday night. It's... amazing. Even for a weekday, it's be phenomeonal. But this was a Sunday. In late August. But those with access to TV watched. Here are the numbers:

Total day: FNC: 2,341,000 / CNN: 1,086,000 / MSNBC: 497,000

Primetime: FNC: 4,073,000 / CNN: 2,279,000 / MSNBC: 1,021,000

25-54 demographic:

Total day: FNC: 610,000 / CNN: 325,000 / HLN: 111,000 / MSNBC: 189,000 / CNBC: 50,000

Primetime: FNC: 1,000,000 / CNN: 564,000 / HLN: 122,000 / MSNBC: 350,000 / CNBC: 69,000

The hourlies:

3pm: FNC: 2,852,000 / CNN: 1,022,000 / MSNBC: 516,000

4pm: FNC: 2,887,000 / CNN: 1,212,000 / MSNBC: 512,000



5pm: FNC: 3,959,000 / CNN: 1,480,000 / MSNBC: 545,000

6pm: FNC: 4,176,000 / CNN: 1,457,000 / MSNBC: 719,000

7pm: FNC: 4,207,000 / CNN: 1,493,000 / MSNBC: 678,000

8pm: FNC: 3,807,000 / CNN: 1,901,000 / MSNBC: 925,000

9pm: FNC: 4,148,000 / CNN: 2,259,000 / MSNBC: 1,120,000

10pm: FNC: 4,265,000 / CNN: 2,676,000 / MSNBC: 1,018,000

11pm: FNC: 3,004,000 / CNN: 1,880,000 / MSNBC: 864,000

12am: FNC: 2,516,000 / CNN: 1,580,000 / MSNBC: 666,000

Everybody got relatively strong ratings for their repsective networks, even at midnight. An MSNBC cracked the 1-million viewer mark from 9-11!

During the 10 pm hour, a combined 7,959,000 million viewers tuned in to watch. For cable news, these are war numbers.