Sanders Town Hall Finished Third in Ratings

[RandySF]

CNN's Town Hall featuring Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) delivered 1.4 million total viewers for the network, finishing third in its 8:00 p.m. timeslot behind Fox News and MSNBC Monday night, according to Nielsen Media Research.

In total viewers, Fox News Channel's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" delivered 2.964 million viewers at 8:00 p.m. ET to finish first in the timeslot, followed by "All In With Chris Hayes" with 1.784 million.

In the 25-54 demographic that advertisers covet most, Fox's Carlson registered 561,000 viewers, followed by CNN's Town Hall with 511,000 and MSNBC's Hayes with 326,000.

The Sanders event fared better from a ratings perspective than previous Town Halls the network has offered up in primetime in recent weeks, but was well behind a January event featuring Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) who drew nearly two million viewers.



https://thehill.com/homenews/media/431710-bernie-sanders-town-hall-finishes-third-in-cable-news-race-draws-14-million

[Gothmog]

1. Ouch

[still_one]

2. yeah, but they didn't get billions and billions of dollars in the first day

[Takket]

10. from all 50 states!

[still_one]

11. and Carl Sagan was there also

[George II]

3. Chris Hayes had a long segment with Stacey Abrams at the same time. She was great.

[Cha]

4. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) who drew nearly two million viewers.

Thank You, RSF!

[lunamagica]

5. Double ouch

[PADemD]

6. CNN aired Bernie's town hall at 5pm California time

It’s hard to watch tv in your car during rush hour.

Kamala ‘s Town hall was aired at 7 pm, after rush hour and dinner.

[RandySF]

7. It didn't re-air?

[George II]

9. There are 150 million Americans in the Eastern Time Zone, 53 million in the Pacific Time Zone.

The fact that it aired at 5PM California time didn't affect that many people, particularly since at many places of business on the west coast the first shift begins at 6AM and ends at 3 or 4 PM.

[Cha]

12. Not buying that excuse.

[JonLP24]

15. It is true

They gave him earlier Primetime slot than the recent town halls. I think they aired Schultz on a weekend.

[George II]

17. I'm sure Sanders had something to do with the time chosen. Obviously he didn't have a problem....

....with it, it might even have been his idea. Not only that, but it ran over into the 9:00 hour, too.

[JonLP24]

20. I'm not complaining

CNN usually runs in third place.

[Cha]

21. Not an excuse for his 3rd place ratings.

[honest.abe]

16. Kamala was aired at 10pm eastern.

That's too late for many.

[George II]

18. In the wintertime people tend to go to bed earlier, my wife is in bed no later than 9:00 every night

[Jose Garcia]

22. The 1st place show and 2nd place show was also on at 5:00

California time.

[BannonsLiver]

8. Everyone has heard it all before.

[Maru Kitteh]

19. Isn't THAT the truth.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. Chris Hayes had a great show that night. That's what I watched.

[George II]

14. Yes, he did a great interview of Stacey Abrams. Aside from her politics, which I love...

... she showed a down to earth personal side, too.