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WASHINGTON More than 13 million Americans tuned in to watch bombshell testimony from a former White House aide this week, making the Jan. 6 committees latest hearing its second-most-viewed thus far.
The Tuesday afternoon hearing, which the committee announced just a day ahead of time, featured 25-year-old Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
Her dramatic testimony attracted 13,231,000 viewers across all major networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC, according to numbers from Nielsen, a ratings firm. This total topped the previous four hearings, which won audiences of about 10 million to 11 million people. The first Jan. 6 hearing, on June 9, drew about 20 million viewers, but it aired in prime time.
Although the numbers indicate that millions of people are watching the hearings, its not yet clear how many Americans will ultimately tune in the hearings are slated to continue into July or what conclusions they will form. In 1954, about 80 million Americans (out of a much smaller U.S. population of about 169 million people) followed the series of hearings that led to communist-hunting Sen. Joseph McCarthys downfall. About 3 in 4 American households watched at least part of the 1973 Watergate hearings, according to Nielsen estimates.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-06-30/television-ratings-jan-6-hearings-hutchinson
OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)multiple that by 2,5 to get total viewers.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)The committee will have more viewers for their hearings.
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mopinko
(70,127 posts)i watched on wapo and pbs youtube.