ABC News Biden Interview Tops Friday Night Ratings With 8.5 Million Viewers

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The George Stephanopoulos one-on-one pulled in the most viewers, while also narrowly edging a win in the 18-49 demo

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ABC News’ interview with President Joe Biden won its timeslot across major demographics on Friday night, as well as bringing in the most viewers with 8.5 million viewers in the fast overnight national ratings. The early numbers also showed ABC coming out on top in both in the 18-49 and 25-54 age demographics, though the 18-49 number just narrowly edged out Fox’s “WWE Friday Night SmackDown.”

The special, with anchor George Stephanopoulos interviewing Biden amid rising concern over his mental acuity and whether he can remain the Democratic Party’s nominee, was also the most-watched ABC News primetime non-election/debate program since Stephanopoulos’ 2018 interview with former FBI director James Comey.

Mike Roe

Mike Roe joined the staff as Weekend News Editor for TheWrap in 2023. Before that, he wrote “The 30 Rock Book” for publisher Abrams and won an L.A. Press Club award for his oral history of “30 Rock’s” “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah.” Previously, Mike spent more than a decade as a journalist for NPR station LAist/KPCC,…

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    Looks like they sent in George S. to finish off Biden.  George just flat out told him to quit the race. You can tell the Democrats are in total panic. If George cant humiliate Grandpa in front of a 10Mil (generous) audience …then its a lost cause. Cept he aint quitten cause he cant take the 200million $ warchest with him like he can when he loses. But Hillary and Obama will not stop trying. Better watch out for them banana peels left laying around the white house lest he slip on one and break a hip. 

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