Einar Thorsen

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Election debate seen by 50,000 online – Broadcast

19 April, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    Election debate seen by 50,000 online – Broadcast

    Online viewing figures for first (main) party leaders election debate:

    "Nearly 50,000 people watched a live stream of the debate on itv.com, while a further 200,000 users expressed their views on the showdown in the commercial broadcaster’s biggest ever online chat. The web page hosting the stream received over 600,000 hits in total.

    […]

    The UK’s first television election debate peaked with 10.3m viewers (40% share) – with ITV1 holding on to an audience of more than 9m for almost all of its 90-minute running time from 8.30pm.

    The First Election Debate between Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and David Cameron averaged 9.5m (37.3%), according to overnight figures from Attentional.

    It was well ahead of the slot average of 5.5 million (22%)."

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