Chilean Story: Fox Wins, CNN Rises, MSNBC Sinks

Fox News again had the overall largest audience for coverage of the Chilean miners rescue, but CNN had another big night Wednesday as well -- a far cryt from its usual cellar-dwelling prime-time status.
Fox was seen by more than 7 million viewers during the 8 p.m. hour when the last of the 33 miners was rescued.

According to David Zurawik at baltimoresun.com, CNN not only trounced MSNBC with its miners coverage, it also scored strong ratings with 51 minutes of Delaware Senate debate co-moderated by Wolf Blitzer from &:30 to 8:21 p.m.

There is an enormous amount of spinning and mis-information being published about the ratings the last two nights, but here is a snapshot that offer a respresentative sample of who won what.

For all of prime time Wednesday -- from 8 to 11PM ( ET):

Fox News had an overall average audience of 4,862,000 viewers (1,254,000 in the prime demo 25-54)
CNN had 2,364,000 overall ( with 705,000 in the 25-54 demographic)
MSNBC had 920,000 overall (with 293,000 in 25-54 demographic)

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