PBS NewsHour & POLITICO Democratic Debate Delivered a Combined Television Audience of 6.171 Million Viewers

More than 8.4 Million Total Live Streams Across PBS NewsHour’s, POLITICO’s, PBS’s, and CNN’s Digital and Social Platforms

Los Angeles (December 20, 2019) – The PBS NewsHour & POLITICO Democratic Debate reached a combined television audience of 6.171 million viewers on PBS and simulcast on CNN and CNN en Español, according to Nielsen Fast National Data. The debate’s broadcast on PBS stations nationwide reached more than 2.062 million viewers and was seen on CNN by 4.088 million viewers. The debate was moderated by PBS NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff, POLITICO’s chief political correspondent Tim Alberta, PBS NewsHour senior national correspondent Amna Nawaz and PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor.

Live streams across PBS NewsHour’s, POLITICO’s, PBS’ and CNN’s digital and social platforms totaled more than 8.4 million. Breakdowns across PBS NewsHour and PBS platforms below.

PBS NewsHour 

Facebook: 4.3M views (43K hours watched)

YouTube: 1.1M total views (777K hours watched)

Twitter: 526K total views (31K hours watched)

Apple News: 274K total views

PBS 

PBS.org, PBS Video mobile app, PBS Video OTT app: 82K (45K hours watched)

The debate between Democratic presidential candidates entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and businessman Tom Steyer was the sixth of the cycle and the last before early primary states hold their caucuses. Sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee, it was held at Gersten Pavilion at Loyola Marymount University.

Previous releases regarding the debate can be found here:

Media Usage Guidelines: https://to.pbs.org/2Z57VjP

Podium Order: https://to.pbs.org/36QKXiV

Format: https://to.pbs.org/34Dymhx

Moderators: https://to.pbs.org/2MavQce

Media Contact: Nick Massella
nmassella@newshour.org