About 20 million people watched the opening night of hearings of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, according to Nielsen. By comparison, the opening day of each of the Trump impeachment trials drew about 11 million viewers.
The figures released Friday by the Nielsen Company include viewers from 12 television networks that aired the rare primetime hearing, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and FOX Business Network.The hearing, which aired from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the U.S.
By comparison, the opening day of each of the Trump impeachment trials drew about 11 million viewers. Those aired during the day on fewer networks, but the far higher figures from Thursday suggest that the primetime experiment succeeded in capturing national attention in a way usually reserved for live sporting events.Fox News, which did not air the hearings, drew nearly 3 million viewers for the same two hours.on ABC, each had between 11 million and 12 million viewers.
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