Vice President JD Vance‘s visitor spot on ABC’s The View final week drew 3.3 million viewers, giving the present its largest viewers since 2024.
Per the community, the viewership was the most important since Nov. 6, 2024, the day after the presidential election. It additionally was the second most-watched telecast since Jan. 11, 2021.
Vance was on the present for practically the complete hour on June 16 to advertise his ebook Communion, however he additionally defended Donald Trump and the file of the administration.
On Monday, ABC began airing spots throughout business breaks calling on viewers to touch upon an FCC continuing. The company, led by Trump’s appointed chairman, Brendan Carr, is asking for public touch upon whether or not The View is a “bona fide” information program, and exempt from equal time necessities.
The equal time regulation requires broadcasters that characteristic political candidates to supply equal time to rivals, if requested. The community says that the FCC discovered it exempt in 2002, however Carr issued new steering in January warning that TV speak reveals will not be “bona fide” information. The Trump White Home has criticized the present, and the president has known as on the community to fireside late evening host Jimmy Kimmel.
For the week, The View averaged 2.94 million viewers, up 22% from the identical interval a yr earlier than. It posted 244,000 in ladies 25-54 and 189,000 ladies 18-49. The common was based mostly on the Monday and Tuesday reveals, because the Wednesday to Friday telecasts had been excluded from the info.
