25-54 demographic (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 354 | MSNBC: 146 | CNN: 380 | HLN: 87

• Primetime: FNC: 432 | MSNBC: 229 | CNN: 1.459 | HLN: 65

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:	12a:
FNC	TheFive:	Baier:	Shep:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:
	425	474	527	485	326	477	495	346
MSNBC	Matthews:	Sharpton:	Matthews:	EdShow:	Maddow:	O’Donnell:	EdShow:	Maddow:
	171	151	186	200	234	248	194	155
CNN	Blitzer:	KingUSA:	Burnett:	GOPDebate:	Cont:	Cooper:	GOPDebate:	Cont:
	128	141	201	1.741	1.741	895	562	562
HLN	Special:	Prime:	Issues:	Grace:	DrDrew:	Grace:	Showbiz:	DrDrew:
	44	24	72	45	62	90	126	88

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The GOP debate last night on CNN, moderated by Wolf Blitzer, drew 5.36 million Total Viewers and 1.74 million A25-54 viewers, according to Nielsen final data. The face-off at University of North Florida in Jacksonville tops CNN’s take at last Thursday’s debate in South Carolina and is CNN’s best performance in A25-54 viewers so far, and second-best after FNC’s debate Dec. 15. This was the 19th GOP debate of this primary cycle.

Debate	Network	Total Viewers	A25-54
Jan. 26	CNN	5,357,000	1,741,000
Jan. 23	NBC	7,125,000	2,588,000
Jan. 19	CNN	5,022,000	1,717,000
Jan. 16	Fox News	5,475,000	1,573,000
Jan. 8	NBC/MSNBC	4,715,000	1,649,000
Jan. 7	ABC	6,250,000	1,730,000
Dec. 15	Fox News	6,713,000	1,865,000
Dec. 10	ABC	7,630,000	2,100,000
Nov. 22	CNN	3,599,000	1,041,000
Nov. 12	CBS	5,480,000	1,520,000
Nov. 9	CNBC	3,332,000	993,000
Oct. 18	CNN	5,468,000	1,651,000
Oct. 11	Bloomberg	NA	NA
Sept. 22	Fox News	6,107,000	1,701,000
Sept. 12	CNN	3,600,000	1,100,000
Sept. 7	MSNBC	5,411,000	1,728,000
Aug. 11	Fox News	5,053,000	1,430,000
June 13	CNN	3,162,000	918,000
May 5	Fox News	3,258,000	854,000

No one can put a precise date on when ABC News started. But it was in 1962 that the network established an assignment desk and newsgathering capabilities: the guts of a TV news organization. And so today, ABCNewsers celebrated 50 years of providing news and information to American homes (and now workplaces and mobile devices).

Employees packed ABC’s TV Studios 1 (former home of “Who Wants to Be Millionaire” and 2 (current home of “The Chew”) which were festooned with images of ABC News anchors and reporters past and present. In addition to hundreds who packed the studio, employees from bureaus around the country and the world were patched in for the celebration.

ABC News president Ben Sherwood was the emcee and was joined by two former ABC News presidents: Bill Sheehan (1974-1977) in Washington, DC and David Westin (1997-2010) in New York. Kaycee Freed Jennings, widow of Peter Jennings, also attended.

The celebration included a video lookback, as well as the first (and probably last) Meatball Awards, presented by Lara Spencer. (The award for tightest t-shirt worn during a natural disaster was a three-way tie going to David Muir, Jeffrey Kofman and Matt Gutman.)

The highlight, insiders say, was John Berman‘s “50 Ways.” With his own lyrics, set to the tune of Paul Simon‘s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” Berman belted out the best of ABC News.

“I think the opportunities at ABC News for our youngest and brightest are nearly limitless and our best days are ahead of us,” said Sherwood at the close of the event.

CNN has long featured technological gadgetry in its programming, but none has been as successful as its “Magic Wall,” popularized by John King during the 2008 primaries. The multi-touch display has been so successful that essentially every other live TV news outlet–from ESPN to CNBC–followed in CNN’s footsteps and has one or two, and use them with regularity.

Now, however, it appears that the channel wants to make sure that the “Magic Wall” is for CNN use only. Earlier this month the channel applied for a trademark on the term “Magic Wall” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, according to filings obtained by TVNewser.

The filing is particularly ironic, as the name “Magic Wall” was originally a placeholder.

“We talked a bit about what to call it, the ‘Touch Wall,’  ‘White Board,’ and thinking back to the old Captain Kangaroo Show, the ‘Magic Chalkboard,’” Current TV president and former CNN DC bureau chief David Bohrman told us. “Me and Wolf [Blitzer] ended up giving up and calling it ‘Magic Wall,’ we decided it was just the easiest thing to do for now.”

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Two teenagers were arrested early this morning for breaking into CNN’s Atlanta newsroom. The incident happened around 3:30 a.m. on the fifth floor of CNN Center.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports 17-year-old Francis Mutemwa, and 18-year-old Aldayne Fearon climbed over a ledge from the Omni Hotel to gain access to the CNN newsroom. “At the time of their arrest, they were checking their Facebook pages” on CNN computers, said Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones.

In a statement, a spokesperson from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. acknowledges the “security incident,” adding, “It is being handled by the Atlanta Police Department.”

The teens are charged with criminal trespass. The CNN Center opened in 1976 as the Omni Center and houses the Omni Hotel and the attached corporate headquarters for TBS, parent of CNN and its networks. News employees from CNN/U.S., CNNI, HLN and CNN.com work out of the building. The large atrium food court and gathering space was once home to CNN’s daytime program “Talkback Live.”

While Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were duking it out on CNN last night, Bill O’Reilly moderated a debate of his own, over MSNBC analyst Pat Buchanan‘s removal from the network. MSNBC president Phil Griffin is keeping Buchanan off the air due to the nature of his book, Suicide of a Superpower.

O’Reilly had on Washington Post Magazine contributing editor Cathy Areu, who called Buchanan “a white extremist” and says he should be fired, and Fox News contributor Sandy Rios who defended Buchanan’s right to write, and say, what he wants.

It also gave O’Reilly a chance to go after MSNBC: “If the litmus test is you fire extremists, MSNBC would have nobody on. Nobody on!” said O’Reilly to Areu. “They’re not extremists over there?” O’Reilly asked rhetorically. “Do you watch the network?”

(h/t J$P)

Kantar Media studied the tuning behavior of 100,000 households across the United States in the moments leading up to, during, and after President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. Kantar, which monitors the media for global clients, examined eight networks that aired the speech live — ABC, Bloomberg, CBS, CNN, FOX, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and NBC.

Kantar used second-by-second audience data gleaned from set-top boxes connected to TV sets from 9pm – 10:30pm. It found:

• In the first five minutes, 27% of the audience tuned away.

• The networks that benefited the most from the initial tune-away were TBS, USA, and ESPN

• CBS and FOX showed sharp losses in viewers at the top of the program, while ABC and NBC showed noticeable gains.

• Tune-away was gradual as the speech progressed. No individual topics drove significant audience loss.

• After the speech, Fox News Channel quickly gained viewers, becoming the second-most watched network after NBC. This gain presumably was in anticipation of the Republican response (seen in the second graph after the jump).

As we reported yesterday, 37.8 million watched the president’s address across 14 networks. Read on for the minute-by-minute analysis…

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• FNC’ Geraldo Rivera will be in LA next week for the debut of his new 2-hour radio show on KABC. “There is plenty to do out there. Los Angeles stories tend to be nationalized larger than life,” Rivera tells the OC Register.

• Wondering what Vinita Nair has been doing since leaving her co-anchor gig at “ABC World News Now?” Well, for starters, she had a baby this week.

• “Too much idiocy, too much work, too little sleep, and I lost my mind and said what I was thinking,” MSNBCs’ Dylan Ratigan tells the Miami Herald about his mad-as-hell moment last fall. Ratigan wraps up three days of shows from Miami Beach today at 4pmET.

“CBS This Morning” co-anchor Gayle King, who holds the title of Duchess of Oprahlandia, was able to stop a story in its tracks this morning. King denied the chatter that Oprah Winfrey is the godmother of Beyonce and Jay-Z’s daughter, Blue Ivy.

“It’s absolutely not true that she’s the godmother,” King said on this morning’s show. “She’s friends with them, of course, and likes them both very much. She’s working on sending them a baby gift. She hasn’t even had time to send a baby gift because she’s been away.”

You never know what will show up in the TVNewser tip box. This morning it was this:

Newt Gingrich a dicho que el hara solo Ingles en los negocios. Que no permitira que se hable otro idima.

We consulted TVNewser’s official Spanish translator who interprets the line this way:

Gingrich has said that he will make just English the language in business and he won’t permit speaking any other language.

Issues important to Latinos were a hot topic at last night’s debate in Jacksonville, including immigration, Cuba policy and who are the leading Hispanic American political leaders.