Trump vs Fox News GOP Debate - Better Ratings? (1 Viewer)

[SIDA!]

Trump is doing his own event tonight and it appears it will be covered by MSNBC, CNN, CSPAN, One America and not sure who else.

Who do you think will have higher ratings/largest audience?

 

[Courtjester]

The Trump show because he is spread out amongst so many networks

 

[SIDA!]

LMAO at Fox News putting out a press release just now in response to the CNN interview on his plane.

 

[dschuler]

It's not just CNN and MSNBC. All of the local TV stations will be able to air this to and not the FOX debate. So in Iowa, Trump could potentially be on NBC,ABC,CBS,CNN,MSNBC, and whoever else wants to put him on.

 

[SIDA!]

This guy is a ####### master.

 

[SIDA!]

Was watching MSNBC and they just turned off Trump. Flipped to CNN and they were at commercial.

Just jumped over to One America.

 

[trogg78]

I watched Trump and he's just naming donors. The debate is better.

 

[Rogi]

I have no idea what this translates to but I saw some chart last night with Twitter trends for each Republican candidate and Trump was killing it. He seems to be owning the social media segment. I wonder if we've reached the point where social media has more influence than traditional media (TV, radio, newspapers)?

 

[Cjw_55106]

And how did Trump's competing event in Iowa stack up? CNN and MSNBC both aired portions of Trump's event dedicated to military veterans, and their ratings put together were about a quarter of the viewers Fox attracted.

However, this debate was the second lowest-rated this election cycle, and Trump will likely try to take a bit of the credit for that.

 

[SIDA!]

It was kind of annoying how MSNBC and CNN said they were covering it and then cut away. I wish I would have just started watching at the jump with CSPAN or One America.

This debate (though Trump will tell you otherwise) was never going to match the 24 million from the first. I personally felt that this debate on Fox should have done around 18 million. My rough estimate. So I think it is fair to say Trump cost Fox about 5.5-6 million views?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-ratings-fox-news-debate-860284

 

[TripItUp]

The question is who got the most exposure, not which event had the higher ratings since several candidates were splitting time on Fox, whil Trump monopolized time on the other networks, and even got some play before, during and after.

Trump easily got the most exposure last night, like 10 times more exposure than any other single candidate, and oh by the way, didn't get targeted by the Fox moderators or by the other candidates.

Trump wins

 

[Fennis]

I didn't watch either one, but all the buzz this morning was about the debate.

What did Trump do and who won the ratings that the OP asked?

 

[SIDA!]

I didn't watch either one, but all the buzz this morning was about the debate.

What did Trump do and who won the ratings that the OP asked?

I suspect Trump lost the ratings battle.

Hard to tell because CSPAN apparently doesn't track ratings and the only other station that carried the whole thing was some dinky station called One America. CNN and MSNBC carried part(s) of it...but not sure how much since I switched to One America after they both cut away the first (last?) time.

With respect to just ratings it appears to be a lose/lose for Trump and Fox. A win for CSPAN, One America and even CNN/MSNBC

As to net exposure/win...some debate but when you aggregate the media coverage over the last two days and up till now...it is clear Trump owned the media cycle. Not sure if that translates to votes though. Who knows.

 

[Fennis]

I didn't watch either one, but all the buzz this morning was about the debate.

What did Trump do and who won the ratings that the OP asked?

I suspect Trump lost the ratings battle.

Hard to tell because CSPAN apparently doesn't track ratings and the only other station that carried the whole thing was some dinky station called One America. CNN and MSNBC carried part(s) of it...but not sure how much since I switched to One America after they both cut away the first (last?) time.

With respect to just ratings it appears to be a lose/lose for Trump and Fox. A win for CSPAN, One America and even CNN/MSNBC

As to net exposure/win...some debate but when you aggregate the media coverage over the last two days and up till now...it is clear Trump owned the media cycle. Not sure if that translates to votes though. Who knows.

sounded like a huge day for FOX

Even with the decline, the debate attracted the second-largest audience in Fox News' history and was the most watched program in prime time, according to Nielsen. Trump had predicted the event would be a "total disaster" without him, but the audience exceeded the 11 million who watched his last debate appearance.