Current's premiere of Countdown with Keith Olbermann averaged 179,000 viewers in the advertiser-targeted adults 25-54 demo on Monday.
Countdown's ratings at 8 p.m. also beat those of CNN's In the Arena, which averaged 89,000 viewers in the demo, according to numbers provided by Current.
The ratings fell short of those at Olbermann's former network, MSNBC, which had 237,000 viewers in the key advertiser demo for Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
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