Rating the Mueller Report

The ratings are in for the Mueller report reveal, and after two years of angst and hype they were…

“I mean I totally underestimated the degree to which people would just get sick of 24-hour-a-day talk television and talk radio and then the degree to which this whole scandal became just sort of disgusting by sheer repetition,” the Speaker of the House muttered as impeachment talk swirled…

Actually, hold that thought for a minute. The ratings are in for the Mueller report reveal, and after two years of angst and hype they were…above average.

The release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference drove a big day for TV news — albeit not as big as coverage of some of the events connected to the investigation.

Special coverage of the report Thursday morning averaged about 10.7 million viewers across the three big cable news networks — Fox News, MSNBC and CNN — and broadcast nets ABC and CBS, according to preliminary Nielsen figures. (NBC’s numbers weren’t available as of publication time.)

Fox News led the pack with an average of 2.78 million viewers from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET. CBS, which cut off its coverage at noon, drew 2.54 million, followed by ABC with 2.22 million. MSNBC averaged a little more than…