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Nielsen Paradox: DC-Area Folk Watched Inauguration on TV; Liberal West Coast Didn’t

By | 01.21.09 | 3:51 pm

Here’s something counterintuitive: the closer a person lives to Washington, D.C., the more likely it is that he or she watched the inauguration on television.

Nielsen released its numbers for the top 56 media markets in the country today. These metropolitan areas had the highest inauguration viewership yesterday:

Third Debate Beats First in TV Ratings

By | 10.16.08 | 3:08 pm

Early ratings suggest that more people watched the final presidential debate than the first.

That is striking when you consider that last night’s finale was televised on one fewer network, because Fox had baseball playoffs and that the first debate came amid the $700-billion bailout battle and Sen. John McCain’s More…