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Fox News‘ town hall with former President Donald Trump drew a higher viewership than CNN‘s coverage of the Iowa presidential debate featuring former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, according to initial viewership figures.
The town hall went up against the first hour of the CNN debate and drew 4.3 million viewers, compared to 2.58 million for the Haley-DeSantis faceoff. For the full two hours, the debate averaged 2.5 million, according to the figures, which are from Nielsen via Fox News and CNN. MSNBC averaged 1.25 million.
CNN pointed out that it beat its rivals in the 25-54 demo over the 9 p.m. ET to 11 p.m. time frame, averaging 509,000, compared to compared to 448,000 for Fox News and 139,000 for MSNBC. In the 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET time frame, Fox News averaged 553,000, compared to 478,000 for CNN and 127,000 for MSNBC.
CNN also said that its debate reached 6.37 million viewers on TV and CNN Max, combining the Nielsen figures with their internal CNN Max data.
Fox News, meanwhile, said its midnight replay of the town hall averaged 877,000 viewers and a 2 a.m. ET replay received 496,000.
Final figures will be released later on Thursday afternoon.
Fox News’ coverage of the first debate drew about 12.8 million viewers.
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