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Early overnight Nielsen ratings suggest that Thursday's Republican debate was not just the most-watched primary debate in history -- it may have been twice as big as the previous record-holder.
The debate on Fox News had a 16.0 household rating between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m., according to Nielsen.
Translation: 16% of United States homes with TV sets tuned in.
Fox News usually has 1% or 2% of the household audience.
For the sake of comparison, the highest-rated Republican primary debates in 2011 and 2012 were watched by approximately 5% of households.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/07/media/gop-debate-fox-news-ratings/index.html
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)Ailes will cave; kid-glove treatment coming up.
spanone
(135,874 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)think
(11,641 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)As someone here wisely said - it was Fox's rebuttal to America's Got Talent.
KinMd
(966 posts)Because you aren't going to see crazy. Bernie, Hillary, Jim Webb, et al will disagree but they'll be sane adults. And none of them will tweet about how mean they were treated
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)I'm hoseing it down as we speak.
eissa
(4,238 posts)Didn't want to contribute to the ratings, plus my desire to maintain my sanity.