The measurement was in the 7 p.m. 11 p.m. ## Watch on Deadline
As always, the bulk of the viewers were older.
Those 55 and up made up 24.4 million of the 42.3 million who watched the election results come in.
ET, according to early data from Nielsen.
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This post will be updated when that data is available.
But while they were the cable winner of the night, MSNBC was still down versus 2020s 7.3M viewers.
It was CNNs smallest Election Night audience since 1996.
Across the remainder of broadcast, NBC drew 5.3M total viewers in primetime, and CBS got 3.4M.
Fox was last with 2.1M allmajor decreases from 2020as well.
