March 9 Democratic Debate Will Air on 3 Networks

By Chris Ariens 

Univision News announced today that its upcoming debate, co-sponsored by The Washington Post, will air live on Univision in Spanish and simulcast in English on both CNN and Fusion, a network it co-owns with ABC. Univision’s Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos (pictured with Pres. Obama during a 2012 town hall) and The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty will moderate.

The DNC-sanctioned debate is Wednesday, March 9 at 9 p.m. ET, at Miami Dade College’s Kendall Campus.

CNN paid a licensing fee to PBS to air the Feb. 11 Democratic Debate. At the time, PBS said the fee would allow the network to break-even on the production cost of the debate which was held in Milwaukee. We’ve reached out to CNN to see what the licensing arrangement is this time. We’ll update when we hear back.

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The next debate is this Thursday as the GOP candidates face off for the 11th time, the 3rd time on Fox News. Then, over a period of 5 days next week, CNN will carry three debates. The list below, in the ranker.

Debate Network Total Viewers A25-54 Streams
Aug. 6 | GOP Fox News 24,000,000 7,900,000 2,400000**
Sept. 16 | GOP CNN 22,940,000 6,900,000 4,500,000
Oct. 13 | Dem CNN 15,791,000 4,998,000 4,300,000
Oct. 28 | GOP CNBC 14,000,000 3,900,000 ***
Nov. 10 | GOP FBN 13,500,000 3,670,000 2,800,000
Nov. 14 | Dem CBS 8,500,000 2,120,000 1,200,000
Dec. 15 | GOP CNN 18,165,000 5,560,000 3,100,000
Dec. 19 | Dem ABC 7,850,000 1,928,000 ***
Jan. 14 | GOP FBN 11,094,000 2,983,000 1,900,000
Jan. 17 | Dem NBC 10,200,000 3,170,000 1,200,000
Jan. 28 | GOP Fox News 12,466,000 3,467,000 1,350,000
Feb. 4 | Dem MSNBC 4,489,000 1,211,000 ***
Feb. 6 | GOP ABC 13,181,000 3,384,000 1,300,000
Feb. 11 | Dem PBS (CNN simulcast) 8,030,000 2,300,000 TBD
Feb. 13 | GOP CBS 13,510,000 3,520,000 TBD
Feb. 25 | GOP CNN/Telemundo 14,521,000 4,684,000 2,100,000
Mar. 3 | GOP Fox News TBD TBD TBD
Mar. 6 | Dem CNN TBD TBD TBD
Mar. 9 | Dem Univision (CNN and Fusion) TBD TBD TBD
Mar. 10 | GOP CNN TBD TBD TBD

**Users needed to be an authenticated viewer to watch the livestream.
***Livestream data has not been revealed.

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