Presidential Debate Ratings Wiki

The democratic party s first presidential debate ahead of the 2016 u s.

Presidential debate ratings wiki. Presidential debate ratings dropped substantially from 2016 with a 35 decrease in tv viewership. Presidential election was held on october 13 2015 at the wynn hotel in las vegas nevada. After the kennedy nixon debates it was 16 years before general election presidential candidates again debated each other face to face. Kennedy and eugene mccarthy and again during the 1972 democratic primaries between george mcgovern hubert humphrey and others.

The big ratings winner in this year s debate however was fox news channel. With the network s chris wallace moderating the trump friendly network notched 17 8 million viewers a gain of. Eastern time it aired on cnn and was broadcast on radio by westwood one. Starting at 8 30 p m.

And one each for abc cbs nbc cnbc fox. Oct 1 2020 02 27 ist. The first of these presidential debates took place on september 26 2016 and set the record as the most watched debate in american. 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.

And ending at 11 00 p m. The television viewership declined 13 compared to the debate for the first presidential debate of 2016 but an unknown number of people watched or listened to the debate via live streaming or radio so the total audience likely surpassed the 2016 record. The ratings are in. It revealed that 12 debates would be held in contrast to the 20 debates that were held from 2011 to 2012 the announcement included which news organizations would host each debate with fox news and cnn having three each.

The first trump clinton debate averaged 84 million viewers while the rematch averaged 66 5 million and the final debate averaged 71 6 million viewers. The commission on presidential debates cpd a bipartisan organization formed in 1987 organized three debates among the major presidential candidates. The republican national committee announced the 2015 2016 debate schedule on january 16 2015. People sit and watch a broadcast of the first debate between.

During this interval intra party debates were held during the 1968 democratic primaries between robert f.