NBC’s GOP debate Monday night, replete with fireworks between front runners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, earned the second highest ratings of any contest in this election cycle.
More than seven million people tuned in for the debate, a figure outdone only by ABC’s Dec. 10 event in Iowa.
That leaves CBS as the lone broadcast network outside the top five, as its only debate in November drew just short of 5.5 million viewers. Fox has not aired a debate thus far, leaving the events to their highly-rated cable network, Fox News.
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Both ABC and Fox News have two of five highest-rated debates thus far with Monday night’s contest rounding out the top five.