http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005062902400002153801&dt=20050629024000&w=RTR&coview="On the Record With Greta Van Susteren" caught fire this month, with the show's focus on the disappearance of an Alabama teenager in the Caribbean nation of Aruba leading it to second place in the ratings behind fellow Fox News Channel show "The O'Reilly Factor."
Van Susteren's show had its highest-viewed month of the year in June, according to data released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. It averaged 1.8 million viewers for the month, up 45% from year-ago levels. That gave it a slight edge on "Hannity & Colmes," its lead-in, which averaged 1.8 million viewers during the month. The cable news leader remains "The O'Reilly Factor," which averaged 2.2 million viewers in June.
"Hannity & Colmes" and "The O'Reilly Factor" were up in total viewers during the month but fell in the adults 25-54 demographic.
Fox News remained on top of the ratings by a wide margin in the second quarter, according to data also released Tuesday. Fox News averaged 1.5 million viewers in the quarter in primetime, up 14% compared with a year ago. CNN's viewership dropped 13% in primetime to 721,000, and MSNBC fell 4% to 322,000 as the network was passed in primetime viewership by the resurgent Headline News, which grew 63% in primetime to 322,000.
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