While CNN marketed their seven hour climate town hall forum with many of the Democratic presidential candidates as “unprecedented,” the network was in last place in total viewership between Fox News and MSNBC.
The town hall started at 5:00 p.m. and went until midnight on Wednesday.
Fox News was in first place during the seven hour time slot, averaging 2.5 million viewers and MSNBC averaging 1.7 million viewers. CNN only averaged 1.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.
For the 25-54 age demographic, Fox News also came in first with 418,000 viewers. CNN was in second with 265,000 viewers and MSNBC in third with 246,000.
During prime time, 8-11p.m., Fox News averaged 3.2 million viewers and MSNBC averaged 2.2 million viewers. CNN averaged 1.4 million viewers, but once again came in second for the age demo with 345,000 viewers. Fox New had 530,000 viewers and MSNBC had 315,000.
At the end of their event, CNN host Don Lemon announced the network will be hosting another town hall with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation to focus “on issues that are important to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community.”
[Read more: I watched the 7-hour Democratic town hall and wrote this diary]
BREAKING: On the eve of #NationalComingOutDay, @HRC Foundation will host a historic #PowerOfOurPride Democratic presidential town hall, exclusively broadcast on @CNN and @CNNEE, focused on issues important to the LGBTQ community. https://t.co/OsDUzIDk98 pic.twitter.com/KdDGOHfpuH
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) September 5, 2019
The Los Angeles town hall will take place in October and will feature many of the same candidates that participated on Wednesday
