NEW YORK — An estimated 20 million folks watched Thursday evening’s listening to of the Home panel investigating the Jan. 6 rebellion on the U.S. Capitol.
The figures launched Friday by the Nielsen Firm embody viewers from 12 tv networks that aired the uncommon primetime listening to, together with ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and FOX Enterprise Community.
The numbers don't embody on-line viewers or those that watched on PBS.
The listening to, which aired from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the U.S. East Coast, made many parts of the continued investigation public for the primary time, together with a never-before-seen 12-minute video of extremist teams main the lethal siege, and startling testimony from President Donald Trump’s internal circle.
By comparability, the opening day of every of the Trump impeachment trials drew about 11 million viewers. These aired through the day on fewer networks, however the far larger figures from Thursday recommend that the primetime experiment succeeded in capturing nationwide consideration in a method often reserved for dwell sporting occasions.
Fox Information, which didn't air the hearings, drew almost 3 million viewers for a similar two hours.
Final week’s highest rated tv reveals, the primary two video games of the NBA finals on ABC, every had between 11 million and 12 million viewers.