NBC News’ coverage of the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle may have been short on interpersonal drama, but the two-hour event certainly managed to draw a crowd. According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, the debate averaged 15.3 million viewers across NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo, coming up a bit shy of the 15.8 million potential voters who tuned in to CNN for the lead-off Dem debate on Oct. 13, 2015. Per Nielsen, 4.3 million of Wednesday night’s TV observers were adults 25-54. Four years ago, CNN drew 5 million members of the target demo. For the sake of context, this uncharacteristically early meeting of 10 contenders for the nomination to run against President Donald Trump in next year’s general election now ranks as the 28th most-watched TV program of 2019, tucking in between the final round of the Masters on CBS (the live broadcast and encore pulled 15.4 million viewers) and the June 3 episode of the syndicated game show “Jeopardy!” That particular installment, in which James Holzhauer’s near-mythical winning streak finally came to an end, scared up 14.5 million viewers. Any way you slice it, the turnout for the first debate was mammoth, which perhaps reflects the sweaty urgency that’s been brought to bear in American politics since Trump officially threw his hat in the ring on June 15, 2015. Viewers aren’t anywhere near as interested in the preliminary debates in less frenzied cycles; for example, the first primary debate leading up... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-28 00:20:59 UTC ]
If Saturday night’s speech by Bernie Sanders was any indication of his approach to Sunday’s presidential debate, the upcoming clash with Hillary Clinton could be the most interesting and fully-joined of the Democratic campaign season. Sanders went hard at Clinton over her campaign’s financing,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With the 2016 U.S. Presidential race heating up, publishers are rushing to get out books on the candidates ahead of the primaries next year. Here, a spate of titles on presidential hopeful, Bernie Sanders. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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