--- title: Republican Debate Sets Record for Fox Business Network description: According to preliminary ratings canonical: https://time.com/4108195/republican-debate-viewers-ratings-fox-business/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-11T16:10:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T22:55:11.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Republican Debate Sets Viewership Record for Fox Business Network og:description: According to preliminary ratings og:url: https://time.com/4108195/republican-debate-viewers-ratings-fox-business/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdacc43851e8776e4/698870890b72e3de4b6e6c38/republican-gop-debate-ratings-viewers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5760 og:image:height: 3240 og:image:alt: John Kasich, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Republican Debate Sets Viewership Record for Fox Business Network twitter:description: According to preliminary ratings twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdacc43851e8776e4/698870890b72e3de4b6e6c38/republican-gop-debate-ratings-viewers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Republican Debate Sets Viewership Record for Fox Business Network > Sponsored content. 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Jeffrey Phelps—AP  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:55 PM UTCPublished: Nov 11, 2015 4:10 PM UTC The fourth debate for the 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls [set a viewership record for the relatively young Fox Business Network](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-ratings-gop-debate-round-839187?utm%5Fsource=Sailthru&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=THR%20Breaking%20News%5Fnow%5F2015-11-11%2007:04:07%5Fmoconnell&utm%5Fterm=hollywoodreporter%5Fbreakingnews). Approximately 13.5 million people watched the debate, according to an Associated Press [report](http://billingsgazette.com/entertainment/tv/fox-business-network-reached-million-for-gop-debate/article%5Fb8895076-9cf9-5551-9833-bc2e636ed0ce.html). That’s not far from the 12 million who tuned into the previous debate, which aired on the more widely distributed CNBC network. The debate was a record audience for the 8-year-old Fox Business Network. The channel has never had more than 1 million viewers for a single program, according to the AP. \[[AP](http://billingsgazette.com/entertainment/tv/fox-business-network-reached-million-for-gop-debate/article%5Fb8895076-9cf9-5551-9833-bc2e636ed0ce.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4108195/republican-debate-viewers-ratings-fox-business/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4108195/republican-debate-viewers-ratings-fox-business/"},"headline":"Republican Debate Sets Viewership Record for Fox Business Network","datePublished":"2015-11-11T16:10:33.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T22:55:11.000Z","description":"According to preliminary ratings","url":"https://time.com/4108195/republican-debate-viewers-ratings-fox-business/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdacc43851e8776e4/698870890b72e3de4b6e6c38/republican-gop-debate-ratings-viewers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdacc43851e8776e4/698870890b72e3de4b6e6c38/republican-gop-debate-ratings-viewers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"John Kasich, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul","caption":"John Kasich, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul","creditText":"Jeffrey Phelps—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4108195/republican-debate-viewers-ratings-fox-business/","name":"Republican Debate Sets Viewership Record for Fox Business Network"}}]}] ```