Presidential Debate Ratings By Channel

The ratings are in.

Presidential debate ratings by channel. The 2016 face off between trump and clinton and the sole debate of the 1980 cycle when 80 6. The event suffered a sharp drop in tv ratings when compared to its 2016 equivalent between trump and hillary clinton. The first presidential debate of 2020 between president donald trump and democratic nominee joe biden brought a smaller tv audience than the record setting first debate four. Presidential debate viewership falls from 2016 to 73 1 million.

Fox news has claimed most viewers for the first presidential debate in the last three cycles but cnn has won two of those three in the key demo if history is any indicator fox news will handily. The big ratings winner in this year s debate however was fox news channel. As a person who has a. While the american media mostly focused on the crosstalk and incoherent babble between donald trump and joe biden in tuesday s presidential debate the real story came the day after.

With the network s chris wallace moderating the trump friendly network notched 17 8 million viewers a gain of. Presidential debate ratings dropped substantially from 2016 with a 35 decrease in tv viewership. Fox news channel the home network of debate moderator and fox news sunday anchor chris wallace scored the largest audience 17 8 million viewers for the 96 minute debate period according to. Nielsen s records go back to 1976.

The first presidential debate between president trump and democratic nominee joe biden was watched by 29 million viewers on broadcast networks abc cbs nbc and fox marking a 35 percent drop from.