Kamala Harris Gives ‘The View’ Its Best Ratings In Three and a Half Years (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Kamala Harris brought the people to “The View.” The Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate appeared on the chat show last Tuesday, October 8, averaging 3.143 million viewers — which gave “The View” its most-watched telecast since February 15, 2021.
Per those Nielsen numbers (supplied by ABC News), that helped “The View” win the week of October 7 in total viewers (2.597 million) — up 12% from last year’s 2.316 million during the similar week.
It’s the fifth week in a row that “The View” has been up vs. 2023, and it repped the show’s most-watched week in more the two and a half years (since the week of March 28, 2022).
Among its rival daytime network talk and news shows, “The View” beat the third hour of NBC’s “Today” (1.943 million viewers), “Today with Hoda & Jenna” (1.265 million) and “NBC News Daily” (1.265 million), as well as CBS’ “The Talk” (1.184 million).
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