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2016 Postmortem

MineralMan

(146,262 posts) Tue Sep 27, 2016, 02:59 PM Sep 2016

Cable news network and Major broadcast network debate viewers

Cable Network News

FNC – 11,359,000
CNN – 9,805,000
MSNBC – 4,895,000

Major Network News
In millions of viewers:

(NBC) (9-10:30 p.m.) 16.60
(ABC) (9-10:30 p.m.) 12.46
(CBS) (9-10:30 p.m.) 11.00
(FOX) (9-10:30 p.m.) 5.25

As usual, the broadcast networks had more viewers in total than the cable news. We tend to forget this.