The first candidate face-off of the 2024 cycle delivered the biggest non-sports audience of the year so far.
Fox News averaged 11.09 million viewers for the two-hour debate, moderated by Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier. Fox Business had 1.7 million viewers, while streaming on Fox Nation and Fox News Digital made up the remaining 200,000 or so.
The debate easily had the biggest audience for any primetime program on Wednesday and was the most watched non-sports telecast of 2023 so far, beating out the same-day total of 8.19 million for a New Year’s Day airing ofFox News and Fox Business combined for 2.82 million viewers in the key news demographic of adults 25-54, also Wednesday’s best total by a wide margin.
As for Trump, the former president sat for a pre-taped interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the latter released on X Wednesday night. As of publication time, the interview had 235.2 million views on the platform — with a “view” counting as two seconds. Applying the two-second standard to the debate, it had the equivalent of 46.8 billion views.
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