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With wishes for a Happy New Year to our family of readers we forward the year end ratings. Below you will find:
1. The daily ratings from Christmas Day through Thursday.
2. The ratings for the week of December 18.
3. The top rankings for 2017 (Day and Primetime) vs. 2016.
4. The Business News ratings for 2017.

Total Viewers MONDAY. – Christmas Day. 

  • Total day: FNC: 982 | CNN: 516 | MSNBC: 391 | HLN: 288
  • Primetime: FNC: 689 | CNN: 546 | MSNBC: 442 | HLN: 420
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
811		 Five:
967		 Baier:
1123		 Spcl.:
908		 H.Levin:
762		 H.Levin:
695		 H.Levin:
608		 Baier:
641
CNN JesusSpcl:
470		 JesusSpcl:
503		 JesusSpcl:
422		 JesusSpcl:
445		 JesusSpcl:
526		 JesusSpcl:
608		 JesusSpcl:
489		 JesusSpcl:
450
MSNBC Wlms:
290		 Maddow:
304		 Hayes:
301		 Wallace:
359		 O’Donnell:
446		 MTPDaily:
466		 O’Donnell:
411		 Mthws:
357
HLN Files:
238		 Files:
215		 Files:
200		 Files:
268		 Files:
385		 Files:
413		 Files:
462		 Files:
403

TUESDAY. Fox beats MSNBC and CNN combined – Day and Night.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.512 | CNN: 575 | MSNBC: 911 | HLN: 227
  • Primetime: FNC: 2.014 | CNN: 594 | MSNBC: 1.446 | HLN: 353
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.323		 Five:
1.966		 Baier:
1.986		 MacCallum:
1.715		 Carlson:
2.288		 Hannity:
2.208		 Ingraham:
1.542		 Bream:
1.103
CNN Tapper:
718		 Blitzer:
764		 Blitzer:
608		 Burnett:
589		 Cooper:
667		 Spcl.:
549		 Lemon:
563		 Cooper:
461
MSNBC Live:
757		 MTPDaily:
864		 Melber:
1.043		 Matthews:
1.261		 Hayes:
1.348		 Maddow:
1.704		 O’Donnell:
1.281		 Wlms:
1.016
HLN Michaela:
68		 S.E.Cupp:
60		 Banfield:
105		 Banfield:
134		 Files:
279		 Files:
387		 Files:
396		 Files:
427

Total Viewers WEDNESDAY. Another Fox sweep of all slots 4-11.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.465 | CNN: 624 | MSNBC: 992 | HLN: 214
  • Primetime: FNC: 1.905 | CNN: 731 | MSNBC: 1.642 | HLN: 269
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.257		 Five:
1.894		 Baier:
2.070		 MacCallum:
1.562		 Carlson:
2.118		 Hannity:
2.059		 Ingraham:
1.535		 Bream:
1.151
CNN Tapper:
718		 Blitzer:
783		 Blitzer:
629		 Burnett:
639		 Cooper:
756		 Spcl.:
732		 Lemon:
703		 Cooper:
453
MSNBC Live:
841		 MTPDaily:
968		 Melber:
1.163		 Matthews:
1.357		 Hayes:
1.542		 Maddow:
1.853		 O’Donnell:
1.523		 Wlms:
1.140
HLN Michaela:
67		 S.E.Cupp:
54		 Banfield:
108		 Banfield:
108		 Files:
223		 Files:
247		 Files:
339		 Files:
480

Thursday. Fox wins day and night. Fox wins 4-8. MSNBC 9-11.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.510 | CNN: 626 | MSNBC: 981 | HLN: 217
  • Primetime: FNC: 1.918 | CNN: 637 | MSNBC: 1.748 | HLN: 276
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.264		 Five:
1.891		 Baier:
1.877		 MacCallum:
1.670		 Carlson:
2.147		 Hannity:
1.958		 Ingraham:
1.649		 Bream:
1.166
CNN Tapper:
751		 Blitzer:
748		 Blitzer:
678		 Burnett:
661		 Cooper:
774		 Special:
545		 Lemon:
591		 Cooper:
473
MSNBC Live:
733		 MTPDaily:
871		 Melber:
993		 Matthews:
1.300		 Hayes:
1.479		 Maddow:
2.005		 O’Donnell:
1.748		 Wlms:
1.232
HLN Michaela:
84		 S.E.Cupp:
70		 Banfield:
95		 Banfield:
171		 Files:
190		 Files:
265		 Files:
372		 Files:
416

The Top 5 basic cable networks for the week of December 18.

Prime Time:

  1. ESPN (2,997,000)
  2. Fox News (2,703,000)
  3. Hallmark (2,223,000)
  4. MSNBC (2,071,000)
  5. USA (1,470,000)

Total Day:

  1. Fox News (1,702,000)
  2. Hallmark Channel (1,082,000)
  3. MSNBC (1,044,000)
  4. Nickelodeon (1,015,000)
  5. ESPN (959,000)
2017 BASIC CABLE TOP 10Prime Time  (Total Viewers) / vs. 2016

  1. Fox News (2,421,000) / Flat
  2. ESPN (1,951,000) / +1 percent
  3. MSNBC (1,631,000) +51 percent
  4. USA (1,412,000) / -5 percent
  5. HGTV (1,403,000) / -5 percent
  6. TBS (1,398,000) / – 7 percent
  7. TNT (1,170,000) / -15 percent
  8. History (1,126,000) / -4 percent
  9. Discovery (1,102,000) / -7 percent
  10. Hallmark Channel (1,089,000) / +7 percent

Total Day  (Total Viewers) / vs. 2016

  1. Fox News (1,500,000) / +7 percent
  2. Nickelodeon (1,118,000) / -7 percent
  3. MSNBC (889,000) / +47 percent
  4. HGTV (802,000) / -6 percent
  5. CNN (779,000) / +3 percent
  6. ESPN(779,000) / -4 percent
  7. Investigation Discovery (742,000) / +8 percent
  8. USA (698,000) / -13 percent
  9. Cartoon Network (671,000) / -19 percent
  10. TNT (636,000) / -19 percent

2017 Business TV Ratings: FBN Is No. 1 in Business Day

By A.J. Katz 

Fox Business and CNBC engaged in an intense battle for TV business news ratings supremacy in 2017.

It was FBN that finished 2017 with its first yearly win over CNBC in Business Day viewers, per Nielsen live+same-day data.

Business Day is defined as Monday – Friday, 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET.

FBN saw double digit total viewer growth from 2016 across Business Day, + 28 percent in total viewers (197,000) and +14 percent in the A25-54 demo (25,000), and all of FBN’s programs recorded their most-watched year to date, delivering five of the six most-watched business shows in the process.

The most-watched programs on business TV this year included the Maria Bartiromo-hosted Mornings with Maria, Varney & Co, Cavuto Coast to Coast, Countdown to the Closing Bell with Liz Claman, and The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan.

Lou Dobbs led the charge for Fox Business. His program, Lou Dobbs Tonight was the year’s most-watched program across all of business television, averaging 345,000 total viewers (+28 percent from 2016) and 41,000 in the key A25-54 demo.

“From the Dow all-time highs to the SNAP IPO, FBN comes out on top when major business news breaks, proving that we have become not only the most watched, but the most trusted source for business news,” says Fox Business president Brian Jones.

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