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Nielsen: About 16 Million Watched Michael Cohen

Nielsen estimated that 15.8 million on eight different networks between 9:45 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Wednesday watched the former Trump lawyer appear before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. The number contrasts with the 20.4 million who watched the daytime testimony of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh before a Senate committee last September.
By AP Staff | March 1, 2019 | 2:16 p.m. ET.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Nielsen company says that 15.8 million people watched President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testify against him on television before a congressional committee.

Nielsen estimated the viewership on eight different networks between 9:45 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

The number contrasts with the 20.4 million who watched the daytime testimony of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh before a Senate committee last September.

Fans of Fox News Channel were responsible for the bulk of the difference. They were far more interested in watching Kavanaugh address a woman’s accusations that he had groped her drunkenly at a high school party than a lawyer denounce the president as a racist, con man and cheat.

An estimated 5.7 million people watched Kavanaugh on Fox last year, while 2.3 million turned on Fox for Cohen coverage, Nielsen said Friday.

CBS, with 3.06 million viewers, led the networks for Cohen coverage, followed by ABC’s 2.95 million. MSNBC (2.82 million) beat its broadcast sister, NBC (2.48 million). CNN had just under 2.1 million.

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[email protected] says:

March 1, 2019 at 10:33 pm

I wasn’t one of them as I find these hirings to be boring and grandstanding by Congress on both sides.

    [email protected] says:

    March 3, 2019 at 5:50 pm

    Coverage of this so-called event should have been reports on NBC Nightly News, World News Tonight, and the CBS Evening News. Period. Let C-Span, CNN, MSNBC, and FNC cover it wall to wall; I don’t care, I don’t watch them.

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March 3, 2019 at 5:45 pm

I can’t believe the networks would WASTE hours on this trash. This was NOT worth the wall to wall coverage. ABC, CBS, and NBC started around 8:45 AM (all times Central). CBS left coverage at 1:05 PM and joined “The Talk” in progress ~ “The Price Is Right,” “The Young & The Restless,” and “The Bold And The Beautiful” did not air. NBC left coverage around 1:50 PM, so “Days Of Our Lives” was skipped. ABC also left coverage around 1:50 PM, so the final few minutes of “General Hospital” aired. “The View” and “Sara & Strahan” (or is it “Strahan and Sara;” I don’t know or care since I don’t waste my time on it) was skipped as well. As for FOX, our combo WLAX 25 La Crosse/WEUX 48 Chippewa Falls (Nexstar owned) went with their scheduled programming (I do not know what the FOX O&Os did).