{"id":3380,"date":"2020-02-20T13:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/press.nbcnews.com\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2020-02-20T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:49:20","slug":"nbc-news-and-msnbc-break-ratings-record-again-with-the-most-watched-democratic-debate-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2020\/02\/20\/nbc-news-and-msnbc-break-ratings-record-again-with-the-most-watched-democratic-debate-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC NEWS AND MSNBC BREAK RATINGS RECORD AGAIN WITH THE MOST-WATCHED DEMOCRATIC DEBATE EVER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Averages Nearly 20 Million Television Viewers\nAcross the Two Networks,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Plus 13.5 Million Live Streams<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>#1 Dem Debate in History in Both Total Viewers\nand the Key A25-54 Demo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>NBC News and MSNBC Now Claim the Top Two Dem\nDebates Ever<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>February 20, 2020 \u2013\nNBC News and MSNBC once again made television history with the most-watched\nDemocratic debate ever, averaging nearly 20 million total viewers across the\ntwo networks, according to Nielsen Fast National Data. &nbsp;Last night\u2019s\ndebate was also the top-rated Democratic debate ever in the key A25-54 demo and\nattracted&nbsp;13.5 million&nbsp;live stream viewers, surpassing any previously\nhosted debate this election cycle. NBC News and MSNBC now claim the top two\nDemocratic debates and top three Democratic debate nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ninth DNC-sanctioned debate\nof the 2020 presidential election, which also marked former Mayor Mike\nBloomberg\u2019s debut, averaged 19.658 million television viewers, with 5.310\nmillion in A25-54 and 4.257 million in A18-49 across NBC and MSNBC from\n9:00-11:00 pm ET.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NBC\u2019s digital performance also\nexceeded any of the network\u2019s major political live events since the 2016\nelection. The debate live stream generated&nbsp;13.5&nbsp;million live video\nstreams and&nbsp;nearly 22 million&nbsp;video views across all platforms,\nincluding NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, NBC News NOW on OTT devices, Facebook,\nTwitter&nbsp;and&nbsp;YouTube. The digital streams translate&nbsp;to an average\naudience of 417K viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Users engaged an average of\n37&nbsp;minutes watching the livestream debate&nbsp;via&nbsp;on-net platforms,\nand 66.5&nbsp;minutes on average via OTT devices on NBC News NOW, according\nto&nbsp;Adobe Analytics. Users also spent an average\nof 37&nbsp;minutes watching the debate via on-net platforms, according to Adobe\nAnalytics. Across OTT devices, NBC News NOW\u2019s users engaged for 66.5 minutes on\naverage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democratic debate was moderated by Lester Holt, anchor\nof&nbsp;<em>NBC Nightly News<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Dateline NBC<\/em>, Chuck Todd,\nmoderator of&nbsp;<em>Meet the\nPress<\/em>&nbsp;and NBC News political director, Hallie Jackson, NBC\nNews chief White House correspondent and host of <em>MSNBC Live<\/em>, Vanessa Hauc, senior correspondent\nat Noticias Telemundo and Jon Ralston of <em>The\nNevada Independent.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday\u2019s debate\nfrom Las Vegas featured the following six candidates:&nbsp;former Vice\nPresident Joe Biden, former Mayor Mike Bloomberg (NYC), Mayor Pete Buttigieg\n(South Bend, IN), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN), Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT) and Sen.\nElizabeth Warren (MA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NBC NEWS AND MSNBC<\/strong><br \/>\nMore Americans watch NBC News and\nMSNBC than any news organization in the world. NBC News\u2019 award-winning\ntelevision news broadcasts include <em>TODAY<\/em>,\n<em>NBC Nightly News with Lester\nHolt<\/em>, <em>Meet the\nPress with Chuck Todd<\/em> and <em>Dateline\nNBC<\/em> \u2013 all of which closed out 2019 at #1 in the key news demo for\nthe fourth straight year. Additionally, NBC News produces <em>Third Hour of TODAY,<\/em><em> TODAY with Hoda and Jenna<\/em>\nand <em>Sunday TODAY with Willie\nGeist<\/em>, as well as primetime specials and breaking news reports.\nMSNBC is the premier cable destination for breaking and live news coverage,\nin-depth analysis, and influential voices \u2013 24 hours a day, 7 days a\nweek.&nbsp;The rapidly-growing NBC News Digital Group, including its streaming\nnews service NBC News NOW, along with the SiriusXM TODAY Show and MSNBC radio\nchannels and NBC News Radio on the iHeartMedia 24\/7 News Network, provides\ncontinuous content to consumers wherever they are, whenever they want it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NBC News and MSNBC are part of\nthe NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which is owned by\nComcast Corporation.&nbsp; For more information about NBCUniversal, please\nvisit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__http:\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/eykbqfut\/www.nbcuniversal.com\/__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!5kemyXUpNe1IN_LMZwiyjLaICC7EZPy7WzAgMPgTWWINQieEnEE4ZFUQ6V-ACRIGOtN1$\">www.NBCUniversal.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NBC News contact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dana Klinghoffer\/212-664-4088<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Dana.Klinghoffer@nbcuni.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dana.Klinghoffer@nbcuni.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MSNBC contact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lorie&nbsp;Acio\/212-664-6733<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Lorie.Acio@nbcuni.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lorie.Acio@nbcuni.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Averages Nearly 20 Million Television Viewers Across the Two Networks, Plus 13.5 Million Live Streams #1 Dem Debate in History in Both Total Viewers and the Key A25-54 Demo NBC News and MSNBC Now Claim the Top Two Dem Debates Ever February 20, 2020 \u2013 NBC News and MSNBC once again made television history with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2020\/02\/20\/nbc-news-and-msnbc-break-ratings-record-again-with-the-most-watched-democratic-debate-ever\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from NBC NEWS AND MSNBC BREAK RATINGS RECORD AGAIN WITH THE MOST-WATCHED DEMOCRATIC DEBATE EVER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nbc-news","tag-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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