"The game averaged 18.5 million U.S. viewers, peaking at 21.3 million between 9:30-9:45 p.m. ET. Among adults 18-34, it averaged 4.0 million viewers — the highest non-Christmas streaming number ever for a regular season game."
“When I was coming up, you had three TV stations. And people were getting a similar sense of what is true and what isn’t, what was real and what was not."
That is not to say that NBC News won't cover Trump or look to feature him in its coverage of the run-up to the Republican primary, only that a town hall-style event is unlikely to happen.
Carlson is expected to launch the programming within the next month, with Justin Wells -- who was also ousted from Fox News -- on board to serve as the program's executive producer.
"Instead of reacting as they did, they should have acknowledged the tremendous ratings they received that night, one of the best in many years, and celebrated their accomplishment."
"I don’t have a fear that this doesn’t work. My fear is that I will hold on to pieces of that last experience — both good and bad — and that this works in an amazing way, and I’m still not content."