Nielsen Fast National data showed CNN scoring 3.12 million total viewers and a whopping 703,000 viewers in the key 25-54 age demographic. …

Fox News came in second place in the hour with 1.412 million total viewers, followed by MSNBC’s 1.372 million viewers. MSNBC topped Fox in the demo with 155,000 viewers to 125,000 – respectively. CNN’s prime time average in recent weeks has hovered around half a million viewers, landing in third place behind Fox and MSNBC.

Early data does not reflect the town hall’s full viewership as later numbers will; both CNN.com and CNN’s apps aired the town hall live as well, numbers which will be released later in the day.

[Those are good numbers for normal prime-time shows. One has to wonder, though, whether CNN might have expected bigger numbers than these. In 2016, Trump events like this brought in far more viewers. This is a good win for CNN in the ratings, but it’s basically what Tucker Carlson used to draw on a regular basis. — Ed]