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Fox News Won the 2020 Election Night Ratings Battle
By Josef Adalian@tvmojoe

Photo: FOX News
Fox News flipped the Election Night Nielsen race, moving from a close second in 2016 to easily the most watched TV network in prime time as the 2020 results came in. While Twitter obsessed (rightfully) about Steve Kornacki and yelled at CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Nielsen says FNC crushed all rivals, scoring an average audience of 13.6 million viewers between 8 and 11 p.m. ET Tuesday, up from its 2016 audience (12.1 million) and comfortably ahead of second-place CNN (9.1 million). MSNBC (7.3 million) finished third, which means that, for the first time ever, all three major broadcast networks were beaten by cable outlets.

Indeed, all the Big Three broadcasters suffered significant erosion compared to 2016. ABC, with an average prime-time audience of 6.1 million viewers, can brag that it beat rivals NBC (5.6 million) and CBS (4.3 million). The Alphabet network still drew one-third fewer viewers than four years ago (9.2 million), though that was better than NBC and CBS, which attracted half their 2016 audiences (11.2 million and 8.1 million, respectively). The good news for NBC? MSNBC did notably better than in 2016, when the cable network had 5.9 million in prime time. CNN was the only cable network to lose viewership compared to four years ago: In 2016, the WarnerMedia-owned outlet notched a best-ever 13.3 million viewers, at the time the most ever for a cable news network. FNC now holds that record.


Nielsen will issue a report later today on overall Election Night viewership, and it will likely show a smaller prime-time audience for major broadcast and cable coverage than in 2016, when 71 million tuned in to see Donald Trump win the presidency. Nielsen numbers don’t track most digital/streaming viewership, though, nor does Nielsen account for how many people were nervously scrolling through Twitter last night. However, multiple TV news outlets on Wednesday reported shattering digital tune-in records, indicating that some of the audience that once watched on TV instead watched the results on streaming platforms.

 
WELP: Guess How Many People Kanye Got to Vote for ‘President Kanye’
By Charu Sinha@charulatasinha
S M H. Photo: Neil Mockford/GC Images

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Amid all the confusion and chaos of this postelection morning comes a few developments from the decidedly dead Kanye 2020 campaign. West, running as an Independent, tallied around 60,000 votes across the 12 states in which he actually appeared on the ballot, with his highest count in Tennessee (???), where he got 10,188 votes and 0.3 percent of the total vote. He achieved his highest percentage of the vote, 0.4 percent, in three states, Idaho (3,631 votes), Utah (4,344 votes), and Oklahoma (5,590 votes), and failed to reach over 0.4 percent of the vote in any state. West appears to have admitted defeat late Tuesday night by tweeting an evocative “WELP.” He sadly later deleted this tweet, and reposted it with “KANYE 2024,” but the sentiment prevails.

West voted for himself in Wyoming by writing his name in; Wyoming is not among the 12 states (Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and Vermont) in which West appeared on the ballot. He did, however, appear on the ballot in California as the vice-presidential pick of the American Independent Party’s candidate, Roque De La Fuente, but it’s unclear if West even endorsed this. Roque De La Fuente (and by default, Kanye) managed to garner 0.3 percent of the vote in California, because of course they did. Below are the total votes that West racked up in each of the 12 states.
Arkansas: 4,040
Colorado: 6,127
Idaho: 3,092
Iowa: 3,197
Kentucky: 6,259
Louisiana: 4,894
Minnesota: 7,654
Mississippi: 3,117
Oklahoma: 5,590
Tennessee: 10,195
Utah: 4,311
Vermont: 1,255
WELP, we know 13 of them — the rest of you, identify yourselves before 2024 so we know who else to avoid.
 
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