Posted on 09/17/2015 7:59:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
CNN President Jeff Zucker is wearing a big smile today. CNN pulled in about 23 million viewers last night during the second Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. From 8:15 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. EDT, CNN drew 22.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen Fast National ratings data. The network essentially matched Fox News, whose debate last month -- the first in the Republican primary race -- earned 24 million viewers.
That's the kind of number that one sees on a popular network show like Fox's "Empire," which took in over 23 million viewers during its season finale back in April.
The network's own media correspondent, Brian Stelter, noted that CNN's best performing primary debate before Wednesday was between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in January of 2008, which averaged 8.3 million viewers.
Earlier Wednesday, Zucker was hedging in an interview when Huffington Post's Michael Calderone asked if CNN might draw more than Fox's 24 million viewers. "We have no expectation of that," Zucker said. "None. Absolutely none."
Rightwing radio host Hugh Hewitt, who served as a questioner during the CNN debate, had previously told anchor Don Lemon that "our audience is going to be bigger than the first debate."
CNN may not have surpassed Fox, but they essentially matched them, without the advantage of being first or a high-profile partnership with Facebook. Moderator Jake Tapper was bullish in the build up. “I hope we get the same or equal,” Tapper he told the Daily Beast, “but that’s a pretty high bar.”
Online, CNN's event peaked at 921,000 concurrent live streams and saw 4.5 million total live video starts of the debate across digital platforms, a significant number of that represents a growing population of cord-cutters who were allowed to watch without a cable TV subscription.
GOP front-runner Donald Trump reacted to the ratings on Twitter, asking for a gift bag:
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump
Just announced that in the history of @CNN, last night’s debate was its highest rated ever. Will they send me flowers & a thank you note?
1:17 PM - 17 Sep 2015 4,121 4,121 Retweets 8,891 8,891 favorites
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The channel pitched its debate as a more aggressive showdown than the first one hosted by Fox News, hyping a smaller audience and candidate-on-candidate combat. In a WWE-style intro, a classic announcer voice called the “double-header” debate an epic “rematch."
Wednesday's debate dethroned CNN's previously most-watched program ever, a special “Larry King Live” in 1993 that pitted Ross Perot against Al Gore, drawing 16.8 million viewers.
So who gets the profit$?
MORE HERE:
http://adage.com/article/media/cnn-republican-debate-draws-23-million-viewers/300424/
CNN Republican Debate Draws Nearly 23 Million Viewers
Sets Record for Cable News Network, but Falls Short of Fox News GOP Debate
RE: So who gets the profit$?
I think CNN gets a huge chunk from ads.
SEE HERE:
http://adage.com/article/media/cnn-republican-debate-draws-23-million-viewers/300424/
EXCERPT:
Mr. Trump is also a big reason why CNN was able to charge about $200,000 for a 30-second spot in Wednesday night’s debate. That is 40-times more than the usual price of about $5,000 for a commercial on CNN in prime time. Indeed, Mr. Trump couldn’t resist a pointed remark in an interview after leaving the main stage. He noted that CNN must have had no trouble attracting advertisers, given the lengthy three-hour time slot for the event.
Digital viewing of the debate was also impressive. There were 921,000 peak concurrent live streams of the debate, according to CNN. That compares with 1.3 million for this year’s Super Bowl.
I thought they all tuned in to see Carly and Jeb.
Because of Trump, both stations had their highest ratings ever and they do nothing but bash him nonstop and push their little Carly, Carly, Carly. I’d like to see people tune in to these debates if he wasn’t on the state and see how many viewers they get. No one would sit through 2 - 3 hours to hear that harpie drone on and on.
Trump Trump Trump!!
They should. Trump was the reason for their record ratings. People weren't tuned in to see Jeb.
Sure didn't tune in for snarky Carly
Who is going to have a bad day tomorrow
[[CNN GOP Debate Draws Monster Ratings; Matches Fox News With Almost 23 M TV Viewers, 4.5 M Streams]]
And then a week later, after all the hoopla dies down, and people stop tuning in to hear blowhards bloviating about the debate, CNN’s viewership drops back to a piddly handful of low information people
I wonder if they’ll break 5 million for the Democrat debate (if one ever happens.)
Trump needs to stop going to these things— it just gives the also-rans in the Republican party more access..
RE: I wonder if they’ll break 5 million for the Democrat debate (if one ever happens.)
Jake Tapper already announced the first Democrat debate for October 13 last night.
It will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada and moderated by Anderson Cooper
See here:
http://www.newsweek.com/anderson-cooper-first-democratic-debate-2016-373121
Three hours of CNN media propaganda is what we got for watching what was obviously the second biased fixed debate by ordained establishment moderators.
They should call it “The Let’s Discredit Donald Trump Debate - Part 2”. Their beef about Trump is fundamentally the core issue where the elites have a multicultural agenda to change the face of America by illegal immigration and to make economic and political victims out of the largest USA demographic group - White Heterosexual Protestant and Catholic Anglo Christians.
Their goal is to take down our traditional family values and they do it by taking down those who still have such values. Racism and bigotry by media against Christianity is certainly hunky dory to them.
[Their goal is to take down our traditional family values and they do it by taking down those who still have such values. Racism and bigotry by media against Christianity is certainly hunky dory to them.]
What is going on is a movement being pushed (forced) by the global oligarchs called ‘Transnational
Progressivism’. They are trying to eliminate borders and nationalism by bringing in millions of people with
different cultures and skin color and are not permiting these cultures to assimilate. The result is a mess
that will help them bring about a need for a one world government.
In other words, a society based on individual rights, majority rule, national sovereignty, citizenship, and
the assimilation of immigrants must be changed to a system promoting “diversity” or group proportionalism.
Group proportionalism is the rule that each job type will have people that do that job in proportion to
their percentage of the population. If 13% of America is Black, then 13% of doctors will be black, etc.
As Brezinski has said in the past, these people plan for 500 years into the future.
Transnational Progressivism - 2 parts
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/021221-6.htm
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/030118-6.htm
And the original paper on Transnational Progressivism by John Fonte in 2002:
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/data/images/File/transnational_progressivism_08312002.pdf
Nah, they tuned in to see Scott Walker and were very disappointed!
That's why the debate lasted so long. CNN kept those record high advertising rates rolling in for almost three hours, the longest televised presidential debate ever.
Trump should host his own debate.
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