Saturday, March 12, 2011

Where do People Turn for News?




In order to better understand the news media landscape, I have compiled a list of the audience sizes of various sources of national news. No other website compiles data on audience sizes of news sources across as many diverse mediums. I used the most current data as I could find. Inclusion on this list is meant only to compare the sizes of the audiences of various news sources, not to comment on their accuracy or tone. You can find my analyses of those qualities in my other posts.
1. The Wall Street Journal                2,061,142 weekday        no Sunday edition.
2. USA Today                                      1,830,594 weekday      no Sunday edition.
3. The New York Times                     876,638 weekday          1,352,358 Sunday .
4. Los Angeles Times                        600,449 weekday           901,119 Sunday.
5. The Washington Post                    545,345 weekday           764,666 Sunday.
6. Daily News of New York               512,520 weekday           568,266 Sunday.
7. New York Post                               501,501 weekday            339,115 Sunday.
9. Chicago Tribune                            441,508 weekday             768,073 Sunday.
21. St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times          239,684 weekday            377,235 Sunday.
22. The Oregonian of Portland          239,071 weekday            292,800 Sunday.
1. The O’Reilly Factor                                               3,194,000
2. Special Report with Bret Baier                               2,204,000
3. Hannity                                                                  2,189,000
4. Glenn Beck                                                            2,055,000
5. Fox Report with Shepard Smith                             1,949,000
6. On the Record with Greta van Susteren                  1,623,000
7. Your World with Neil Cavuto                                1,423,000
8. America’s Newsroom                                           1,234,000
9. Studio B                                                               1,226,000
10. The O’Reilly Factor (11 PM Repeat)                  1,219,000
11. America Live                                                      1,214,000
12. The Rachel Maddow Show                                 1,102,000
13. Happening Now                                                  1,035,000
14. The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell            1,033,000
15. Fox and Friends                                                     987,000
16. Anderson Cooper 360                                           854,000
17. The Ed Show                                                          825,000
18. Piers Morgan Tonight                                              809,000
19. Hardball with Chris Matthews                                  728,000
20. The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer                       680,000
21. Parker Spitzer                                                          630,000
22. Nancy Grace                                                            584,000
23. AC 360 (repeat)                                                        563,000
24. John King USA                                                          559,000
25. CNN Newsroom                                                       558,000
26. Last Word (repeat)                                                    508,000
27. Morning Joe                                                               459,000
28. The Daily Rundown                                                    426,000
29. MSNBC Live                                                             393,000
30. Andrea Mitchell Reports                                             390,000
                                                                                       
The Daily Show with John Stewart                                  1,606,000
The Colbert Report                                                         1,124,000

1.       Meet the Press                                 NBC                       3,460,000
2.       Face the Nation                                CBS                        2,750,000
3.       This Week                                       ABC                        2,420,000
4.       Fox News Sunday                           Fox News            1,300,000

1.       Today                                           NBC                       5,650,000
2.       Good Morning America                ABC                       4,960,000
3.       The Early Show                            CBS                        2,860,000

1.       NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams    9,710,000
2.       ABC World News with Diane Sawyer       8,550,000
3.       CBS Evening News with Katie Couric        6,290,000
4.       PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer                  1,200,000

1.       Morning Edition                                                13,000,000
2.       All Things Considered                                      13,000,000

1.       The Rush Limbaugh Show                            15,000,000
2.       The Sean Hannity Show                               14,000,000
3.       The Glen Beck Program                               10,000,000
       The Mark Levin Show                                 8,500,000
      The Savage Nation                                       8,500,000
      The Alan Colmes Radio Show                       2,750,000
      The Ed Shultz Show                                      2,750,000

60 Minutes
60 Minutes                                              17,400,000



Originally posted 3/12/11

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