A congressional hearing rarely attracts much attention, but Thursday’s testimony by fired FBI Director James Comey brought major ratings, with nearly 20 million tuning in on television, not including those who watched online.
According to Nielsen ratings, ABC topped all networks, bringing in 3.295 million overall viewers, with CBS close behind with 3.286 million viewers. Fox News was next with 3.096 million viewers, followed by CNN with 3.049 million, NBC with 2.723 million viewers and MSNBC with 2.719 million viewers. Fox Business had 236,000 viewers and CNBC had 184,000.
CNN won the most desirable advertising demo (viewers aged 25 – 54) across all television with 1.019 million, followed by NBC with 859,000.
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The Nielsen numbers don’t yet include networks like C-SPAN or online streaming services offered by many networks and websites. Twitter, which partnered with Bloomberg to stream the hearing, said 2.7 million viewers tuned in. Facebook said there were 26 million views while live of Comey-related video.
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