MSNBC continues as the #2 cable news channel in primetime (8-11pm Mon-Sun), with slight year-over-year growth: +1% in Total Viewers and +9% in A25-54 viewers. The network is up double digits in total day viewing (Mon-Sun): +10% in total viewers and +14% in younger viewers.

In primetime, MSNBC topped CNN by +48% in Total Viewers and +36% in A25-54 viewers. “The Rachel Maddow Show” has now beaten CNN’s 9pm show 15 consecutive months. Maddow is down -3% in total viewers and up +13% in younger viewers.

“The Ed Show” at 10pm is up +25% over a “Countdown” reair which ran at 8pm last April. In April, “Ed” topped CNN’s Anderson Cooper in both total viewers and A25-54 viewers.

“The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” is a soft spot in primetime, down -12% in total viewers and down -5% in demo viewers compared to “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” which ran at 8pmET last April.

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Fox News continues its dominance in the cable news universe. The network’s biggest show, “The O’Reilly Factor,” at 8pm has been #1 for 125 months (since December 2000). In both Primetime and Total Day, Fox News beat CNN and MSNBC combined in total viewers. The network was down slightly year-over-year in primetime (8-11pm Mon-Sun): -3% in total viewers and -11% in A25-54 viewers.

“The FOX Report with Shepard Smith” has been #1 for 115 months at 7pm (since October 2001). “The Glenn Beck Program” which will sign off later this year was down -12% in Total Viewers and down -25% in younger viewers, year-over-year. Interestingly, the show which leads out of Beck, “Special Report with Bret Baier” is up, +3% in both Total Viewers and younger viewers year-over year. Baier’s was the #3 show in cable news, after O’Reilly and Hannity, in Total Viewers.

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