[wtd]

Headline: Fox News Debate Numbers Steady Without Donald Trump

It will be interesting to see the actual numbers compared against normal ratings. For example:

• TVNewser,

  Scoreboard for Tuesday, January 26th Total Viewership .............(Live & SD):

• Primetime: FNC=2.780, CNN=895

  Scoreboard for Wednesday, January 27th Total Viewership ........(Live & SD):

• Primetime: FNC=2.857 CNN=880

  Thursdays numbers were not yet published at time of this posting. But those numbers should demonstrate any changes at either cable news outlet as it regards the numbers at FNC GoP debate vs. Trump's alt. fundraiser at CNN

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Next time, with more warning, Let’s see if the sponsors are buying what FOX is selling

Im’a bet the cost of airtime went down a bit

[pgkdan]

But you would have to count all the outlets that carried Trump. CNN, MSNBC, Cspan, OANN.

And then take into consideration that CNN's coverage (the only one I have first hand knowledge of) SUCKED. Every time I tuned in it was NOT Trump so I didn't watch. Had they just covered the event I'm sure they'd have done better.