Figures released by the Nielsen Company include viewers from 12 TV networks that aired the House Capitol insurrection panel
An estimated 20 million people watched Thursday night’s hearing of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The figures released Friday by the Nielsen Company include viewers from 12 television networks that aired the rare prime time hearing, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and FOX Business Network.The hearing, which aired from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the U.S.
By comparison, the opening day of each of the Trump impeachment trials drew about 11 million viewers. Those aired during the day on fewer networks, but the far higher figures from Thursday suggest that the prime time experiment succeeded in capturing national attention in a way usually reserved for live sporting events.Last week’s highest rated television shows, the first two games of the NBA finals on ABC, each had between 11 million and 12 million viewers.
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