25-54 demographic (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 335 | MSNBC: 232 | CNN: 123 | HLN: 96

• Primetime: FNC: 498 | MSNBC: 383 | CNN: 185 | HLN: 81

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:	12a:
FNC	TheFive:	Baier:	Shep:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O’Reilly:	Hannity:
	395	410	418	633	488	372	322	260
MSNBC	Matthews:	Sharpton:	Matthews:	EdShow:	Maddow:	O’Donnell:	EdShow:	Maddow:
	304	286	338	307	429	412	242	209
CNN	Blitzer:	Blitzer:	Burnett:	Cooper:	Morgan:	Cooper:	Burnett:	Morgan:
	131	178	186	171	200	186	114	121
HLN	Express:	Express:	VelezMitchell:	Grace:	DrDrew:	Grace:	Showbiz:	DrDrew:
	47	47	95	94	67	84	105	62

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A BBC reporter has apologized to Buckingham Palace after reporting something that Queen Elizabeth II told him. In the United Kingdom, unlike the U.S., the Queen is not supposed to have any political opinions. She told the reporter, Frank Gardner, that she was “pretty upset” about a radical Islamic cleric, and wondered whether there wasn’t some grounds to arrest the cleric or not.

The New York Times reports on the fallout:

It is considered a shocking breach of etiquette to reveal what, if anything, the queen tells you, especially when it comes to political views, which she is technically not supposed to have. The BBC immediately issued an abject apology, saying that the correspondent, Frank Gardner, was completely out of line.

“The conversation should have remained private, and the BBC and Frank deeply regret this breach of confidence,” the broadcaster said in a statement.

“It was wholly inappropriate. Frank is extremely sorry for the embarrassment caused and has apologized to the palace.”

Former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez–who was let go from the network in October 2010 following comments he made on a radio program–is getting back into the cable news fold.

TVNewser hears that Sanchez will make his debut as a columnist on Fox News Latino Wednesday morning. Sanchez has a short term gig with the site, in which he is expected to provide insights into the Latino community. Fox News Latino coincidentally also launched in October 2010, the same month Sanchez was fired from CNN.

Sanchez hasn’t left the media business. He has remained active on social media, and has had stints on a handful of radio stations in Florida and California. Last year he shopped around a talk show, which would tape in both English and Spanish.

After the jump, in a Media Beat interview, Sanchez talks with us about his rise from local news to network news, first at MSNBC, then CNN.

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25-54 demographic (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 166 | MSNBC: 121 | CNN: 111 | HLN: 124

• Primetime: FNC: 150 | MSNBC: 183 | CNN: 124 | HLN: 110

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:	12a:
FNC	NewsHQ:	FNSunday:	Report:	Huckabee:	Hannity:	Stossel:	Huckabee:	Hannity:
	59	91	146	95	163	192	193	196
MSNBC	Ed. Nation:	Ed. Nation:	Caught:	Caught:	Predator:	Predator:	Lockup:	Lockup:
	64	36	130	182	214	152	155	191
CNN	Newsroom:	Newsroom:	Newsroom:	Zakaria:	Morgan:	Newsroom:	Zakaria:	Morgan:
	116	116	115	151	110	110	136	115
HLN	Mysteries:	Mysteries:	Mysteries:	Mysteries:	Mysteries:	Mysteries:	Mysteries:	Mysteries:
	120	104	96	75	120	135	105	171

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25-54 demographic (Live +SD)

• Total day: FNC: 182 | MSNBC: 190 | CNN: 132 | HLN: 101

• Primetime: FNC: 164 | MSNBC: 200 | CNN: 175 | HLN: 121

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:	12a:
Fox News	NewsHQ:	NewsHQ:	Report:	Huckabee:	Pirro:	Geraldo:	JER:	Pirro:
	158	174	211	246	114	132	167	113
MSNBC	Caught:	Caught:	Caught:	Lockup:	Lockup:	Lockup:	Lockup:	Lockup:
	115	171	215	182	212	205	280	313
CNN	Newsroom:	Blitzer:	Newsroom:	Presents:	Morgan:	Newsroom:	Presents:	Morgan:
	135	187	163	155	215	155	136	102
HLN	Mysteries:	Mysteries:	Mysteries:	Mysteries:	Mysteries:	Mysteries:	Mysteries:	Mysteries:
	70	106	94	132	125	106	99	138

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Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are in New York City today delivering major speeches — several in fact.

All three of the general cable news channels carried the morning’s first two speeches — Romney’s address to the Clinton Global Initiative in the 9amET hour and Obama’s address to the U.N. General Assembly in the 10amET hour — in their entirety.

While Obama spoke live at the U.N., his taped interview with “The View” was about to air on ABC while another taped interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie was being played at Education Nation, NBC’s annual multi-day gathering focusing on education challenges and solutions. Guthrie’s Obama sit-down aired shortly after 10:30amET, leading in to Romney’s live interview with Brian Williams at the summit.

TVNewser stopped by the Romney appearance at the New York Public Library, home of the third-annual Education Nation. “There are more burly people with weapons in this building right now than ever before — but enough about Steve Capus‘ senior staff,” Williams joked before he introduced Romney.

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CNN is still actively searching for its new worldwide president, who will replace Jim Walton when he steps down at the end of the year. As we have noted before, former “Today” EP and NBC universal CEO Jeff Zucker is one of the names being considered. The New York Post‘s Claire Atkinson has a few more today.

Among them: former CBS News president and Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer (pictured right), former NBC news president and current WNYC CEO Neal Shapiro and former ABC News chief David Westin.

“We should know something in a month, perhaps before the elections,” said one CNN insider. “Unlike CNN International, we just don’t have someone with a mission.

“We need our Roger Ailes,” the source said, referring to the chief of Fox News, which toppled ratings leader CNN years ago and has since widened its lead.

Time Warner execs are also getting help internally. Sources say HBO boss Richard Plepler is playing a key role in advising Bewkes.

Former “Today” show anchor, and current “Rock Center” contributor Meredith Vieira is nursing a sore hand after a contestant on another show she hosts, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” gave her a high-five that required some medial attention.

Toward the end of today’s show, contestant Lee Yanco got a little overly-excited and slapped Vieira’s right hand, which caused her to wince in pain, muttering, “Ow, ow, ow. You hit me so hard.” As she returned from a commercial break, Vieira had a bandage on her hand. “It is the worst pain I have ever felt in my life,” she told the audience. “The ‘Millionaire’ doctors, bandaged me. I’ll be fine. I took one for the team,” said Vieira, joking, “My lawyer will call you. I hope you make a lot of money.”

Vieira’s had her share of hand issues recently. While covering the London Olympics for NBC, she got an infection in her left thumb.

Sunday could have been a tough night in the ratings for CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

Despite interviews with President Obama and Mitt Romney, as well as a huge NFL lead-in, the newsmagazine was up against a big NFL game on NBC, and the Emmys on ABC.

Despite the tough competition (and likely thanks to the NFL lead-in and the big interviews), “60 Minutes” did just fine, drawing 12.6 million total viewers, enough to make it the number six primetime program for the week. For comparison, the Emmys drew 13.3 million viewers, while “Sunday Night Football” drew 21.3 million.

After seeing the biggest numbers in nearly a decade during the 2010-2011 season, overall the network evening newscasts shed viewers in the just completed 2011-2012 season. Only “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley” grew viewership: +3%, though down slightly in A25-54 viewers: -.5%.

Compared to the 2010-2011 season, “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” is down -3% in Total Viewers and down -9% in younger viewers. “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” is down -4% / -8%.

Still, with a loss of -420,000 total viewers, this year saw an overall increase of +220,000 viewers from 2009-2010.

Numbers for the 2011-2012 season:

Program	Total Viewers	A25-54 Viewers
	8.53M	2.36M
	7.49M	1.97M
	6.03M	1.76M