UPDATE: Management of the Home of Representatives remains to be unknown, however the remaining viewership numbers are in for final night time’s election, and it ain’t a winner.
Throughout 18 networks, Donald Trump‘s sweeping victory for a return to the White Home he was kicked out of 4 years in the past was watched by an viewers of 42.3 million, in accordance with Nielsen. The measurement was within the 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET interval, which was hours earlier than the ultimate tally of Trump’s win and Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss was in.
The 42 million and alter is a powerful end in immediately’s decentralized media setting, by any non-Tremendous Bowl customary. Nonetheless, as a sign of what and the place Individuals are getting their information, that primetime viewership was truly down a tough 25% from the 2020 election that noticed Joe Biden defeat Trump.
The shops that Nielsen used for its 2024 scores metric have been ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CW, Benefit Avenue Media, Scripps Information, Telemundo, Univision, CNBC, CNN, CNNe, FOX Information Channel, FOX Enterprise Community, MSNBC, Newsmax, NewsNation, and PBS. Not a part of the linear gang, Amazon Prime Video’s Brian Williams hosted election particular was not among the many minimize.
As all the time, the majority of the viewers have been older. These 55 and up made up 24.4 million of the 42.3 million who watched the election outcomes are available.
PREVIOUSLY, 11:20 AM: Fox Information Channel led the pack in primetime election protection Tuesday night time with 9.8M tuning in from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, in accordance with early knowledge from Nielsen.
Nonetheless, this can be a sharp lower from the viewers FNC drew in 2020, when practically 14M watched, which appears to be the story throughout the board, as all linear TV channels struggled to seize as giant of an viewers as they did 4 years in the past.
Nielsen hasn’t launched its remaining numbers, which can element simply what number of U.S. viewers watched Election Evening protection throughout practically two dozen linear networks. These numbers are based mostly on early, in-home viewing knowledge and are prone to go up throughout the board when Nielsen’s remaining numbers, which take out-of-home viewing under consideration, can be found later Wednesday. This put up will probably be up to date when that knowledge is accessible.
Following Fox Information, it was a tug of conflict between broadcast and cable, as ABC was the No. 1 broadcaster of the night time with about 5.6M viewers in primetime. It was the primary time in 16 years that ABC not solely led broadcast in whole viewers, but in addition amongst each adults 18-49 (1.8M) and 25-54 (2.2M).
In the meantime, MSNBC drew 5.5M viewers, topping CNN on a presidential election night time for the primary time in community historical past. However whereas they have been the cable winner of the night time, MSNBC was nonetheless down versus 2020’s 7.3M viewers.
CNN was considerably down in linear viewership from 2020, primarily halving its viewers with simply 4.7M viewers, in comparison with 9.6M 4 years in the past. It was CNN’s smallest Election Evening viewers since 1996.
CNN did have a digital and streaming element throughout CNN.com and Max to election protection, which might not be accounted for right here.
Throughout the rest of broadcast, NBC drew 5.3M whole viewers in primetime, and CBS acquired 3.4M. Fox was final with 2.1M — all main decreases from 2020 as nicely.
As talked about, this knowledge additionally doesn’t issue streaming into the equation, and lots of the networks had digital parts this election cycle. Deadline can even replace this put up with any inside numbers which can be launched, although they can’t be as immediately in comparison with each other since they aren’t independently verifiable.
