CBC was the number-one Canadian destination for live news coverage and results for the historic U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, November 5, keeping audiences in Canada up to date on the tightly contested race and offering them a homegrown perspective on the events unfolding south of the border. Viewers across the country tuned in to CBC and CBC News Network for U.S. election coverage more than any other English-language Canadian network.
Beginning at 8 p.m. ET on November 5 and airing late into the night, 3.8 million viewers tuned in for the CBC NEWS LIVE SPECIAL: AMERICA VOTES, led by chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault on CBC and CBC News Network, which garnered a combined average audience of 639,000 viewers. CBC and CBC News Network’s audiences peaked at 10:12 p.m. ET with an average minute audience of 957,000, when correspondent Richard Madan was reporting from Philadelphia on the importance of Pennsylvania to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
CBC also attracted significant digital audiences the evening of November 5, with more than 3 million combined unique visitors to cbcnews.ca and the CBC News App, and the Results Tracker alone drew more than 4 million page views as of 9 a.m. ET on November 6. The CBC News YouTube channel’s live stream of the AMERICA VOTES special received 3.6 million views, an increase of 500 per cent compared to views for CBC News’ 2020 U.S. election coverage, and on CBC Gem, time spent streaming was up 29 per cent over 2020 election coverage.
Hosted by Your World Tonight’s Susan Bonner and The Sunday Magazine’s Piya Chattopadhyay, CBC Radio coverage of the U.S. election reached 840,000 listeners and garnered an average minute audience of 112,000. Overall on November 5, audiences in Canada consumed close to 5 million hours of AMERICA VOTES coverage across CBC, CBC News Network and digital platforms including CBC Gem, cbcnews.ca, the CBC News App, CBC News streaming channels, CBC Listen and the CBC News YouTube channel.
Sources: Numeris TV Meter, Total Canada, CBC TV & CBC News Network, Nov. 5, 2024 vs. Nov. 3, 2020, P2+, TotMins(000,000) Converted to Hours, generated by InStarTV, Numeris Radio Meter, Nov 5, 2024, Radio One, Tues 8p-2a ET (adjustments made for time zones), AMA generated by InstarRadio (UNCONFIRMED) CBC Gem: Adobe Analytics, CBC Production, OTT Segment, Videos contains “america-votes” and “live” or CBC regional or CBC NN streams,, 11/05/24 – 11/06/24 (10am) , Metric: Content Time Spent, Adobe Analytics, Nov 5 & 6, 2024 (through 9am EST). YouTube: Content Manager Dashboard, LIVE views by hour “Realtime Views”: Nov 5 at 5PM – Nov 6 at 6am (13 hr stream). Data is unconfirmed.
