Final Presidential Debate Drew 59.2 Million Total TV Viewers
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Last night’s final presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney averaged 59.2 million television viewers, including a record 11.5 million on cable’s Fox News.
Comcast Corp.’s NBC drew 12.4 million viewers, the most of any broadcast or cable outlet, according to Nielsen data released by the networks. The debate, held in Boca Raton, Florida, and moderated by CBS News’s Bob Schieffer, was the highest-rated telecast ever for Fox News, the 16-year-old cable channel owned by New York-based News Corp.