In the battle between Donald Trump and Fox News, the network just scored a big point in the ratings department.
Fox
News’ broadcast of the Republican presidential debate crushed Donald
Trump’s campaign rally in viewership from 9:15 to 10:15 p.m., when CNN
and MSNBC picked up coverage of the Trump event. During that hour, Fox
News averaged 12.8 million total viewers. CNN averaged 2 million. MSNBC
averaged 1.1 million.
In
the key 25-54 demographic, Fox News averaged 3.5 million against Trump,
while CNN averaged 616,000 and MSNBC averaged 260,000.
Fox
News’ debate coverage drew 12.5 million total viewers, according to
Nielsen live-plus-same day numbers. That’s down significantly from the
24 million total viewers that the network’s previous GOP debate drew
last August. But the Thursday night debate did outperform the one held
on Fox Business two weeks ago, which drew 11 million total viewers.
In the 25-54 demo, the total debate coverage averaged 3.5 million.
Trump
bowed out of Thursday night’s forensic following a public war of words
with Fox News and its CEO Roger Ailes. Trump had threatened for days
that he may not show up at the debate unless Megyn Kelly — the
moderator who questioned Trump regarding his derogatory comments about
women at last August’s debate — be removed.
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