Debate breaks record as most-watched in U.S. history
Well over 80 million people tuned in to see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off, setting a new record in the sixty year history of televised presidential debates.
According to Nielsen, the debate averaged a total of 81.4 million viewers across 11 of the channels that carried it live.
This total does not include PBS, which averaged 3 million viewers during debate coverage, or C-SPAN, which is not rated.