More people watched Biden on ABC than Trump on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC

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Source: CNN

New York (CNN Business)Joe Biden's town hall on ABC averaged 13.9 million viewers on Thursday night, easily surpassing the Nielsen ratings for President Trump's town hall on NBC. That alone was a result virtually no one in the TV business expected. And that's not even the most surprising part.

The Trump town hall was simulcast by two of NBC's cable channels, MSNBC and CNBC, but even when those channels are included in the total, Biden -- on only one network -- still prevailed.

The Trump town hall averaged 10.6 million viewers on the NBC broadcast network. On MSNBC, Trump reached 1.74 million viewers, and on CNBC, about 671,000 viewers. So Trump's gross audience across the three channels was 13 million, about one million fewer than Biden's audience on ABC alone.

Staffers at ABC News privately admitted to their surprise when the preliminary ratings came in on Friday.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/media/town-hall-ratings-biden-trump/index.html

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[Hoyt]

1. Many watching trump were just there for the laughs.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. That's gonna scorch His Lardship's big orange rump.

[mdbl]

4. ROFL at your post response

[MissMillie]

3. Prepare for Twitter sh*tstorm in 5... 4...3...2...1... (n/t)

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[riversedge]

5. Well, it turns out that Donald Trump was on more NETWORKS, but Biden still had more VIEWERS. I know

Well, it turns out that Donald Trump was on more NETWORKS, but Biden still had more VIEWERS. I know how the president is too busy running the country and protecting us from COVID to worry about ratings, so he might have missed the news.

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[Initech]

6. TERRIBLE RATINGS! SAD!

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7. Kick