Numbers Down for Republican CNBC Debate. But still a record!

The Republican Presidential Debate of Wednesday, gets lower viewer numbers for CNBC.

14 million viewers on average.....but that's down on the previous Fox debates of 23/24 million. CNN's Democratic Debate got 15 million+.

Still, it broke CNBC records. 
It was their most watched programme ever.

They had sold out airtime at 250k usd for 30 seconds. Good value? Absolutely on any cpt basis. Just looking at online activity and notably YouTube views, seems to be pretty low.

But there again, it was pretty dull....except for this 'cage match' bit....

TV airtime Trumped.

Interesting to see that Politics is becoming good business for the TV networks...

CNBC has seemingly sold out its airtime for today's Republican Presidential Debate. 250k usd for 30 seconds, 5 times the usual rate and +25% more than the last debate.

They bring in about 25 million viewers although the Hilary Democratic debates only get about 14 million. 

Of course, there's one big factor for the Republicans.
Trump.