Ratings For The Debate

With the network s chris wallace moderating the trump friendly network notched 17 8 million viewers a gain of.

Ratings for the debate. 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. Debate viewers were evenly split between the cable news and broadcast networks at roughly 33 million apiece. Viewership of tuesday s debate was 13 lower than for the first presidential debate of the 2016 election cycle when donald trump squared off against former secretary of state hillary clinton. 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.

As a person who has a. That s a contrast from previous cycles when more viewers tuned in to the networks. The event suffered a sharp drop in tv ratings when compared to its 2016 equivalent between trump and hillary clinton. The nielsen ratings only include americans who watched on television sets.

The big ratings winner in this year s debate however was fox news channel. The vice presidential debate between mike pence and kamala harris was a much bigger audience draw than the vp debate in 2016 according to nielsen ratings. The ratings are in. An unknown number of people live streamed the debate on their phones listened on the radio and watched in other ways.