More Than 71 Million U.S. Viewers Tune in for Election Coverage

ATLANTA, November 6: Coverage of the U.S. presidential election on
Tuesday night was viewed by more than 71.5 million people, with ABC taking the
lead in prime time (8 p.m. to 11 p.m. EST) with 13.1 million viewers.

CNN came in second with 12.3 million viewers, followed by NBC with
12 million, Fox News Channel with 9 million, CBS with 7.8 million and MSNBC
with 5.9 million. Univision fared well with its 4.1 million viewers, while
Telemundo attracted 790,000.

Senator Barack Obama will be sworn in as the country's 44th
president on January 20, 2009.

—By
Mansha Daswani