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Impeachment Trial TV Ratings Something of a Dud

Mark LaMet

   WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate's impeachment trial of President Donald
   Trump couldn't have higher stakes, but as an historic two-week-long
   televised event, it has been something of a ratings bust.

   The third impeachment trial in the history of the United States Senate
   hasn't come close to toppling viewership records, according to the
   Nielsen rating agency.

   So far, the live coverage of President Trump's Senate impeachment
   hearings has garnered fewer television viewers than the audiences that
   tuned in to see other historic congressional hearings, including
   appearances by James Comey, Brett Kavanaugh, Michael Cohen and Robert
   Mueller.

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