ABC was #1 last in the A18-49 demo thanks in part to the ABC News magazine "20/20."

Last night's show featured several reports on the Ft. Hood massacre as well as Diane Sawyer's interview with Rihanna, speaking for the first time about being attacked by her then-boyfriend, singer Chris Brown last February.

"20/20" won its time period in Total Viewers (8.2M) and A18-49 (2.7 rating/9 share). The Elizabeth Vargas-hosted show was also Friday's #1 TV show across each of the key demos: A18-34 (2.3/9), A18-49 (2.7/9) and A25-54 (3.1/9).

This was the show's biggest audience in more than 7 months and its best A18-34 rating in almost 3 years -- since Dec. 1, 2006.

Tonight at 8pmET, CNN premieres a Special Investigation into the Ft. Hood massacre. The one-hour live special is anchored by Don Lemon, with on-site reporting from Ft. Hood by CNN national correspondent David Mattingly and CNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin.

Bill O'Reilly called out The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, and CNN over some of their coverage of the Ft. Hood massacre -- which, in O'Reilly's view, blamed the wars instead of the killer, Nidal Malik Hasan, for the rampage. "The guy is either a Muslim terrorist or a crazy person. That's it. Those are the choices," said O'Reilly of Hasan.

"We did 5 million viewers at 8 O'Clock, wiped out CNN and MSNBC, wiped them off the face of the earth. The guard has changed in this country. The media guard has changed. And you know why people came in here, because they knew they were going to get an honest story. They weren't going to get spin that Hasan is some kind of post-traumatic syndrome victim. Some kind of victim of a terrible public policy gone awry. They're not going to get that..... I almost said a bad word. They're not going to get that garbage here."

O'Reilly's guest Bernie Goldberg also gave a new name to the mainstream media:

TVNewser hears MSNBC's Morning Joe is getting a new green room which includes custom made wallpaper with the Starbucks logo. In June, MSNBC entered into an agreement with Starbucks which made the coffee maker the official sponsor of the show. We hear construction will continue this weekend and the new space will be unveiled on Monday's show.

On Friday's "Ed Show', with David Shuster filling in, former GOP congressman Tom Tancredo took offense to something said by Daily Kos' Markos Moulitsas as the two discussed healthcare reform. It ended with Tancredo taking off his mic, and leaving the set.

"The congressman is always welcome on the show," said Shuster. "We always appreciate hearing his point of view, it's a feisty one and that's what we like around here."

CNBC's David Faber reports on the impending acquisition of his network's parent company. "General Electric and Comcast are now expected to announce a deal over GE's NBC Universal unit on Nov. 16, not next week as originally thought," Faber writes on CNBC.com. GE will shed 51% of NBC Universal to Comcast and hold the remaining 49%.

NBC "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams made his acting debut returned to "30 Rock" playing himself, (and playing Nicky Mortarulo of Scotch Plains, NJ) last night. He was in two short scenes. Here's one of them:

> More: Tony Mortarulo of Scotch Plains, NJ is Williams' real-life uncle.

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	FtHood:	Baier:	Shep:	O'Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	Greta:
	801	843	1055	1485	1176	778	526
CNN	Blitzer:	Blitzer:	Dobbs:	Brown:	King:	Cooper:	Cooper:
	523	449	513	605	619	565	451
MSNBC	Matthews:	EdShow:	Matthews:	Olbermann:	Maddow:	Olbermann:	Maddow:
	222	278	315	351	283	290	210
HLN	Prime:	Prime:	Issues:	Grace:	Behar:	Grace:	Showbiz:
	206	184	202	293	125	258	147

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When the news broke around 3:15pmET yesterday of the massacre at Ft. Hood, the 24-hour news networks went in to high gear. A day later, we have the ratings which show where TV viewers went for information.

Between 3pmET and 7pmET, Fox News averaged 2.60M Total Viewers and 627K in A25-54 viewers coming in first of the three cable news networks, and adding viewers with each subsequent hour. CNN averaged 1.33M Total Viewers and 371K in the demo, seeing some drop-off at 6pmET. MSNBC averaged 624K Total Viewers and 196K in the demo, like FOX adding viewers with each hour.

> More: The Fox News dominance of the story was even more profound in primetime, as the network averaged 3.24M Total Viewers between 8pmET and MidnightET, with Bill O'Reilly drawing 4.995 million Total Viewers at 8pmET (by comparison NBC's "Parks & Recreation" at 8:30 averaged 4.935M).

Fox News beat the combined Total Viewer averages of CNN (1.835M) and MSNBC (955K) from 8pmET-Midnight.

With next Friday marking the final day of production of truTV's "In Session" programming from New York, the network has announced new anchors who will debut from CNN headquarters in Atlanta the following Monday. Among the new hosts is a familiar name: Vinnie Politan. A long-time CourtTV and truTV host, Politan left the network in March, 2008.

The other "In Session" host is Ryan Smith who has appeared as a legal commentator on many networks. He specializes in entertainment law and hosted a show on BET called "My Two Cents."

The new "In Session" will feature reports from Beth Karas, who has been with the network since 1994.

In Session has also named three contributors: Mike Brooks, who will be the network's law enforcement analyst, Midwin Charles and Sunny Hostin.

truTV remains based in New York but the daytime production "In Session," which airs from 9amET-3pmET is shifting from studios in New York to studios in Atlanta. The production team in Atlanta is part of HLN.

"World News with Charles Gibson" will air a special one-hour edition tonight focused on yesterday's massacre at Fort Hood.

Bob Woodruff, Terry Moran and Ryan Owens will report from Texas on the investigation, the victims and the heroic first responders. Brian Ross will report on what is known about the alleged shooter and his motives. Martha Raddatz and Bill Weir will contribute reporting on the impact on the US military.

In addition, Charlie Gibson will have an exclusive interview with Army Chief of Staff General George Casey Jr. and his wife, Sheila.

Last night on the broadcast, Gibson reflected on his time in the military, discussing the location of the massacre with correspondent John Quinones: "I go back to my time in the military, John. This is a processing center. And I remember, we used to line up to get shots and whatever just before we were about to do anything."

ABC's Jeffrey Kofman will also be reporting live form Orlando on the mass shooting there.

With the news that Oprah Winfrey may take her daily talk show away from broadcast affiliates and to her own OWN cable network, that got us wondering: should Glenn Beck, now the #2 show on cable despite airing in he afternoons, be Oprah's syndicated replacement?

Beck is well-rounded. Between his #1 best-selling books and comedy shows he's a three-dimensional talent that could easily adapt to daytimes. He could also use his radio audience to promote to local affiliates.

Just yesterday, the New York Times reported novelists are considering Beck to be the "New Oprah," when it comes to endorsing political thrillers. "He's our Oprah," author Brad Thor told The Times' Motoko Rich. "God love him, we're very fortunate."

Oprah Winfrey averages about 6.8 million viewers a day airing at various times across the country (9am in Chicago, 3pm in Los Angeles, 4pm in New York.) In October, Beck's live and same-day DVR average was 2.7M daily viewers, and that's on cable.

Heck, even CBS' Les Moonves has Beck to thank for a good quarterly report.

Beck is locked in to a multi-year deal with Fox News which would probably keep him from jumping anytime soon. His show premiered in January, and quickly shot past all competitors and even programs on his own channel, which air later in the evening to larger available audiences.

So, what do you think?