Posted on 07/25/2019 12:58:25 PM PDT by Red Badger
News coverage of special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony before Congress Wednesday drew a sizable audience — but not as big as some other recent televised hearings.
The 7 1/2 hours of hearings, from 8:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. ET, drew an average of just under 13 million viewers (12.98 million) on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.
In the hearings, Mueller reiterated the findings of his report on Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election and contacts with members of Donald Trump's campaign — including that the report did not clear the president of possible obstruction of justice.
The 13 million viewers falls short of some other recent televised hearings: Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, for instance, drew about 16 million viewers when he testified before Congress in February. Ex-FBI Director James Comey's 2017 appearance before Congress attracted 19.5 million and Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing averaged 20 million viewers.
Fox News led the field for Wednesday's coverage with an average of just over 3 million viewers for the hearings. MSNBC averaged 2.41 million; followed by ABC, 2.12 million; NBC, 1.99 million; CBS, 1.91 million; and CNN, 1.52 million.
CBS is currently blacked out in about 10 million homes because of a carriage dispute with AT&T that affects DirecTV and U-verse customers. (The network led broadcast coverage for the Cohen hearing with a little over 3 million viewers.)
NBC had the most viewers in the key news demographic of adults 25-54, with 536,000 viewers. ABC had 489,000; Fox News 441,000; CBS 406,000; CNN 365,000; and MSNBC 347,000.
Currently, we don’t get CBS or NBC on our Direct TV.......................
The good news is a lot of folks got eyes-on of a terrible performance by Mueller. Evasive. Mumbling. Bumbling.
NeverTrumpers clutching their kleenex boxes?
Did mad-cow start crying, again?
Pearl clutchers..............
I still get those channels on my DirecTV in the Houston area. The only one that has gone black is Smithsonian.
In any case, the hearings pre-empted Jeopardy! for me.
Over 20 million watched the Kavanaugh hearing. Seems like people weren’t as interested in this Democrat clown show.
It was women watching the Kananaugh hearing. They could care less about the coup.
Yep, anyone who saw it with their own eyes will also be surprised that the media is distorting the reality by pulling only favorable and not very representative clips of his poor performance.
Our local NBC affiliate station from Mobile is having some contract dispute with AT&T, owner of Direct TV. Our CBS is gone, how is yours still going?...........
Not many considering the population of this country, and I wonder how many people who watched it were undecided voters. I imagine a lot of people who watched it were hardcore Dems or hardcore conservatives who already have their minds made up.
hardcore conservatives were at work.
hardcore Dems were pissed because they didn’t get to see their game shows.................
I watched on c-span. Apparently those vviewers don’t count! I chose cspan to avoid liberal commentary, or commercial inturruption.
Currently, we don’t get CBS or NBC on our Direct TV..
I have Directv and I do not even know (or care) if I get either one since I haven’t watched network TV in well over 15 yrs.
We need it for local news and weather, especially hurricane season.................
Really pathetic considering it was on all three major over-the-air networks - all day long I had to hear my wife complain she couldn’t see her soaps.....
Tough to MAGA with unprecedented amount of traitors and co-conspirators in the republic.
15 yrs.
Cool bb15. I’m in my 7th.
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