The second (and final) Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden presidential debate earned 63 million total viewers across 15 networks, according to final Nielsen numbers. That’s 10.1 million fewer viewers than their first debate, which drew 73.1 million viewers.
The first debate of the 2020 election cycle, on Sept. 29, aired across 16 channels — ABC, CBS, NBC, Telemundo, Univision, PBS, CNN, CNN en Español, Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Newsmax, Newsy, Vice and WGNA — but last night, Fox’s broadcast network aired “Thursday Night Football.”
The 15 networks that carried last night’s debate were the same that aired the first alongside Fox.