The ratings are in, and it appears as if Democratic presidential nominee and former US Vice President Joe Biden’s Thursday night town hall attracted more viewers than that of US President Donald Trump, whose program was simulcast across three networks.
Early Nielsen television ratings released on Friday revealed Biden attracted 13.9 million total viewers to his town hall on Thursday night, versus Trump’s 13.1 million, Bloomberg reported.
An estimated 73.1 million viewers tuned into the September debate between Biden and Trump, Bloomberg reported.
Prior to the Thursday night broadcasts, NBC was slammed by a number of mainstream outlets that disagreed with the network’s decision to feature Trump’s town hall during the same time slot as Biden’s live event.
NBC’s decision prompted over 100 actors and producers to issue a letter to network management, calling the conflicting programming “a disservice to the American public.”
Brian Steinberg, the senior TV editor at Variety magazine, contended that despite the initial backlash against NBC, the questioning Trump faced from NBC broadcast journalist Savannah Guthrie may have rescued the network from “one of the company’s biggest messes in years.”
Without mentioning ratings, Trump declared on Friday that he received “very good reviews” regarding his Thursday night town hall.
Outlets like Newsweek have claimed that teens on TikTok may have made an effort to deny Trump a ratings victory by tuning into Biden’s event on multiple devices at once.
“On YouTube, ABC’s live stream of Biden’s town hall had around 2.8 million views at the time of writing,” the outlet claimed. “However, Trump’s town hall was streamed on the NBC News, CNBC, and CNBC Television YouTube channels, and had 1.9 million, 1.6 million and 1 million views, respectively.”
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