Fox News led the way in viewership for the first public hearing in the House’s impeachment investigation. William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, and George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, testified in front of the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
Over the course of their 5 1/2-hour testimony, Fox News had an average of 2.88 million viewers, with 442,000 people in the key 25-54 age demographic, according to a CNN press release. Comparatively, MSNBC came in second with an audience of 2.7 million people. ABC News was the only other network to average more than 2 million viewers. However, they did win out in the key demo.
CBS News, CNN, and NBC News finished fourth through sixth in the ratings, with all of them averaging at least 1.6 million people.
The next public testimony will take place on Friday with Marie Yovanovitch, the United States’s former ambassador to Ukraine, appearing in front of the House Intelligence Committee.
