More than nine million viewers crowded in front of their televisions Sunday afternoon to watch live and cable news coverage of President Biden’s explosive resolution that he would end his quest for re-election and Vice President Kamala Harris . The news broke shortly before 2 p. m. ET, dominating cable news and leading broadcast networks to launch normal systems to cover the story.
Between 2 p. m. and 6 p. m. and four p. m. As of 1:30 p. m. horas. ET, Fox News Channel had a total of 3. 196 million viewers, the largest among news networks and cable broadcasts. CNN came in second with 1. 836 million viewers, followed largely by MSNBC (1. 803 million viewers), ABC (1. 306 million viewers) and CBS. (1,116 million viewers).
Among the 25- to 5-year-old audience, a key demographic valued by advertisers, Fox News led between 2 p. m. and p. m. ET, with 56,000 audiences, followed by CNN (96,000 audiences), ABC (313,000 audiences), MSNBC (280,000 audiences) and CBS (2,000 audiences).
Viewership temporarily increased as news of Biden’s resolution spread on television and social media, with Fox News achieving an overall audience of 1. 6 million viewers between 1:45 p. m. and 5:45 p. m. and 2 p. m. ET. The FNC’s audience doubled (3. 2 million audiences) from 2 p. m. to 9 p. m.
In prime time, governed by politics and the investigation of the Biden resolution and the new form of festival opposed to President Donald Trump, Fox News had the most cable news, with 3. 193 million viewers, followed by MSNBC (1,909 million viewers) and CNN (1,268 million viewers).
For MSNBC, which airs special systems between 7 p. m. and from 7 to 10 p. m. ET, led by Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Joy Reid and Jen Psaki, the network attracted 2. 1 million viewers and recorded its biggest Sunday since 2020.
In the key demo, Fox took first place with 471,000 viewers, followed by CNN (334,000 viewers) and MSNBC (257,000 viewers).
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FNC was the first to report the news with host Mike Emanuel breaking in at 1:50 p. m. ET, with all the cable news networks rushing into their top anchor pools to lead hours of live politics from Sunday afternoon into the evening.
ABC’s primetime special, “Biden Stands Down,” the highest-rated special among the broadcast networks.
Each of the broadcast networks aired primetime specials Sunday night, with ABC’s “Biden Stands Down: The Race for the White House” drawing the largest overall audience, 3. 66 million viewers between the 7 p. m. and nine p. m. Eastern Time. The moment is CBS’ “Biden Exits Race” (7 p. m. to 8 p. m. ET) with 3. 444 million viewers, and NBC’s “President Biden Exits the 2024 Race” in third place (7 p. m. to nine p. m. ET) with 2. 3 million of audience.
“This is a tectonic shift in politics, think about where we are and this moment of having so temporarily replaced this candidate, by resigning,” Fox News host Bret Baier said. “It’s only been three weeks since this debate and at that point President Biden came out and in the first few minutes the world was breathless to be in balance after all the preparation that went through. ‘He did. I don’t think the aftermath of that scenario has ever recovered, and his efforts to give interviews afterwards did not prevent the hemorrhage related to his political issues.
The media and the public gather at the White House on the day Joe Biden announces that he will not run again. (Photo by Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto Getty Images)
On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow said Biden had made “an act of selfless dedication” to the country. “It’s history in the broadest sense, you know. We’ll all be where we were and what we’re doing now,” Maddow said.
“And just thinking about the president right now, you know, what a man,” Maddow said. “What a patriot. What an act of selfless determination for your country. And he’s a phenomenal president. He rescued us from COVID. It gave us the most productive recovery from COVID of any primary country in the world, at a time when the world is in economic misery as a result of COVID. Biden’s economy is literally the envy of the world.
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