{"id":2011291,"date":"2023-08-24T19:31:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T23:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-debate-debate-pulls-higher-ratings-for-fox-news\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T19:31:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T23:31:16","slug":"republican-debate-debate-pulls-higher-ratings-for-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-debate-debate-pulls-higher-ratings-for-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican debate boosts Fox News ratings."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-debate-debate-pulls-higher-ratings-for-fox-news%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2011291&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Fox News Dominates Republican Primary Debate with\u200c Record Viewership<\/h2>\n<p>Wednesday night&#8217;s Republican primary debate in Milwaukee was a major\u2063 success for\u2063 Fox News, attracting a\u2062 staggering 12,803,000 viewers. Despite the absence of \u2064front-runner \u2063Donald Trump, \u200dwho \u200bfamously protested the network&#8217;s 2016 debate in \u200cIowa, this event surpassed previous records with \u200c12.5 million total viewers.<\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways from the \u200cDebate<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Former Fox News \u200chost Tucker\u200d Carlson&#8217;s one-on-one \u200binterview with Trump, \u2063held simultaneously \u200cwith the debate, garnered \u200bover 263 million \u200cviews on X (formerly known as \u2063Twitter).<\/li>\n<li>The debate significantly\u200c boosted Fox News&#8217; viewership,\u200d with over 2 \u2064million viewers\u2063 in the coveted 25-54 age range.<\/li>\n<li>Fox News remains the top-rated \u2063cable news network, followed by MSNBC and CNN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite Fox News&#8217; success, the network imposed strict restrictions on the rebroadcast of the debate, limiting clips to a maximum of three\u2062 minutes. As a result, other news outlets provided post-debate commentary and stuck to their regular programming on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC had just over 1.7 million \u2063viewers leading up to the debate, while CNN started the night \u200dwith \u2064over 900,000 viewers, which decreased\u2064 to \u200d754,000 as the night progressed. However, both networks experienced\u200c a surge \u2063in\u200c viewership after \u200cthe debate, with MSNBC\u200b reaching\u2062 2.1\u200c million \u2063total viewers\u200d and CNN averaging 1.2 million\u2064 total viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Committee collaborated\u2063 with Fox News to host the event, with Bret Baier and Martha \u2062MacCallum serving as moderators. Baier&#8217;s\u200d program had over 1.7 \u2063million viewers the \u200cprevious week, while MacCallum&#8217;s show ranks \u200cas the\u200d 16th most popular on the\u2064 network.<\/p>\n<p>For more\u2064 details, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a> to\u200d read\u2064 the full\u200d article from \u2062The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News attracted 12.8 million viewers during the initial GOP primary debate in Milwaukee. The event showcased eight out of 13 Republican candidates, excluding the leading contender, ex-President Donald Trump. Interestingly, Trump had also objected to the network&#8217;s 2016 Iowa debate, which had lower viewership compared to Wednesday night&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2011292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}