Beck Begins With Total Viewer Win

Glenn Beck‘s new Fox News program premiered Monday, and the 5pmET show debuted with 2,388,000 Total Viewers and 467,000 in the A25-54 demo. It placed first in the time period in Total Viewers and 2nd, behind CNN’s The Situation Room.

In Total Viewers, “Glenn Beck” was up 92% over the January ’09 average of America’s News HQ and up 124% over the Q1 ’08 average of America’s Election HQ. In the demo, it was up 70% and 106% in those categories.

Compared to the last month of Beck’s HLN show, his first night was up 321% in Total Viewers and up 119% in the demo.

Click continued to see Beck’s interview with Gov. Sarah Palin Monday (he gets choked up before it starts)…

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