Back by popular demand, here are the hourlies. Shep Smith beat Anderson Cooper by a million viewers, and 400,000 in the demo. Bill O’Reilly had two million more than Paula Zahn. But all three cable nets are still way up:
7pm: Shep: 2,666,000 / Cooper: 1,667,000 / Hardball: 515,000 / Showbiz: 256,000 / CNBC: 98,000
8pm: O’Reilly: 4,181,000 / Zahn: 1,922,000 / Olbermann: 808,000 / Grace: 780,000 / Conan: 75,000
9pm: H&C: 2,914,000 / King: 2,369,000 / Cosby: 602,000 / Prime News: 596,000 / Mad Money: 87,000
10pm: Greta: 2,856,000 / NewsNight: 1,879,000 / Scarborough: 766,000 / Grace repeat: 491,000 / Deutsch: 121,000
11pm: O’Reilly repeat: 2,062,000 / NewsNight: 1,513,000 / Situation: 468,000
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