[House Atreides]

Wow, last night's debate was the 2nd highest telecast in Fox News Channel's history. It had 12.5 million viewers.

[MortMan]

6th lowest ratings of 7 debates. The article is dishonest.

[Doctor Freeze]

Second lowest for GOP debates so far. Wishful thinking for Fox and anti-Trumps.

I’m not voting for Trump, but I love how he is making the establishment crazy because of his disintermediation of the status quo... just like Netflix/Blockbuster and Uber/Taxis

[GeaugaRepublican]

Everybody has their own take but the clear winner beneficiary of the alternative programming last night was CNN.

“Donald Trump’s counter-programming stunt succeeded in stealing viewers from Fox News’ Republican presidential debate.”
http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/29/media/republican-debate-ratings-donald-trump/

“By comparison, two of the cable channels that showed parts of Trump’s fundraising event, CNN and MSNBC, had about 2.7 million viewers combined. A plethora of smaller outlets also televised and streamed Trump, but no further viewership data is available.
Practically speaking, there is no way Trump’s event could have out-rated the debate. But ratings experts said Trump did appear to take a chunk out of Fox’s audience.”

CNN and Fox News are on a relatively even playing field in terms of reach into cable homes. And Thursday’s debate didn’t come close to matching December’s totals.

[onyx]

LOLOLOL.

Aha! Cheerleader for Fox News or maybe a stockholder?

This debate’s viewership rating is six out of seven.

I didn’t watch primarily because I don’t watch that nasty, arrogant Megyn Kelly!

Instead, I and at least 3 Million other viewers watched a wonderful, patriotic and very successful fundraiser for our Veterans hosted by Leading Candidate, Donald Trump!

[Vision Thing]

Dude, your fox news network is a no-spin zone, so don’t be spinnin’.

[NKP_Vet]

The debate was the second lowest ratings in all the GOP debates. Only the Fox Business Channel debate was lower, and that’s because not as many people have Fox Business as they have Fox News. The Trump event was not carried in it’s in it’s entirity by any network other than C-Span and C-Span does not counting number of viewers.

Fox Network can spin it all they want, but the debate was absolutely did not attract as many views as the rest of their debates, with the exception of the last Business debate.

Mess with Trump again and get more of the same low ratings, probably lower.

[Democratic-Republican]

Donald Trump may have been conspicuously absent, but Thursday night's Republican debate on Fox News Channel nevertheless scored a 8.4 rating and 12.5 million viewers, according to early numbers from Nielsen. That's higher than the returns for the last Republican debate, Jan. 14 on sister net Fox Business Network, and marks the No. 2 telecast in FNC history.

Wow, last night's debate was the 2nd highest telecast in Fox News Channel's history. It had 12.5 million viewers.

ROTFLMFAO! You didn't just say that! That is CLINTON level of spin. Only Alan Colmes or Paul Begala could hold a candle to you.

FOX Business does NOT have the same penetration that FNC has. FNC is on most basic cable whereas FBC is sparse.

It would be impossible for FNC to not surpass FBC in any scenario. In fact, it looks like FNC *lost* at least 10 million viewers over the last FNC debate.

What level of TDS does a person require to cause such a massive logical disconnect! Fess up, are you Alan Colmes?

[VerySadAmerican]

How does 12.5 million viewers equal more than 24 million viewers. I posted last night that Fox can report whatever rating they want to report. Looks to me like they’re fudging numbers.