Near wall-to-wall coverage from Egypt drove the cable news channels last week. For its part, Fox News, the ratings winner on any given day, doubled their competitors MSNBC and CNN in primetime for the first four days of last week. And today we have the final rankings which show Fox News was the third most-watched cable channel in primetime and the 6th most-watched for total day. MSNBC edged out CNN in primetime coming in 28th to CNN’s 29th. In total day CNN was 24th and MSNBC was 31st.
Cable Ranker – Week of Jan. 31, 2011
FNC’s #1 show, “The O’Reilly Factor” had two telecasts in the top 40 cable shows last week, they happened to be the only two days O’Reilly was in — Monday and Tuesday. Take a look, after the jump…
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