C-SPAN, known as the muted production covering all things U.S. government, saw a competitive boost in viewership from the spectacle on the House floor this week.
The political theater this week to elect a speaker of the House of Representatives went on for days and hours, and seemingly endless rounds of voting.
Late into Friday lawmakers continued to hurry up and wait, if you will, all while cable news, and specifically the low production classic C-SPAN, enjoyed a boost in ratings for its channel over cable and online. While the big cable news networks battled for ratings over the attention grabbing political event to get back to the business of government and elect a House speaker — CNN gained a small edge over Fox News in its key demographic with viewers 25 to 54, the New York Times reported — C-SPAN's sparsely interrupted view on Capitol Hill saw the highest bump in attention from its former stature.
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