(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) The Associated PressFive days of impeachment hearings were a boon to programmers and accountants at the cable news networks. CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC showed every minute of the hearings, even the two times it stretched into the evening. That reality is likely why CBS, on the hearing's third day, gave its affiliates the option to opt out of afternoon testimony. And none of the three broadcast networks stuck with the testimony for the two times it stretched into the evening. ESPN had 2.63 million, MSNBC had 2.4 million, Hallmark had 1.59 million and CNN had 1.15 million.

Source: ABC News November 26, 2019 23:15 UTC