Cable News Ratings: Saturday Glenn Beck Rally Coverage

Though none of the cable news networks — save C-SPAN — provided full coverage of Glenn Beck‘s “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington on Saturday, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC did provide some coverage to varying degrees. Here’s a look at the data we have:

During the 10am-1pmET block, Fox, which was in business programming from 10am-12pm, had the largest viewership. CNN, which perhaps had the most coverage of the rally, saw the largest increase of the three networks compared to the same time-slot last Saturday. (Since C-SPAN, which carried the rally live in full, is not a commercial television network, it is not rated by Nielsen. So despite the fact that Beck said last night that he “can’t wait to see the numbers” for C-SPAN, we, unfortunately, won’t be getting any.)

Sarah Palin spoke in the 10amET hour and was carried live on CNN. Check out our liveblog of the coverage and the rally, which ended at 1:18pmET. More on Saturday’s numbers here.

	Fox News	CNN	MSNBC
10am-1pm	1.08M/279k	729k/212k	283k/83k
10am	1.06M/290k	632k/216k	295k/74k
11am	1.06M/278k	737k/230k	300k/72k
12pm	1.13M/270k	818k/189k	255k/103k
1pm	985k/167k	595k/148k	250k/124k

Related: PoliticsDaily’s Matt Lewis wonders if Beck deserves a primetime slot, beyond the one-day gig he might already be owed.

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