MSNBC.com Debate Coverage Draws More than 58M Page Views

It turns out that MSNBC's debate coverage was a record-breaker on the Web, as well as the cable network, at least as far as debate-related surfing goes.

MSNBC said it got more than 58 million page views to its site Feb. 26, the most on any presidential-debate day.

The network added that 1.2 million people streamed debate-related content Feb. 26 and 27, with more than 9 million unique visitors Feb. 26.

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.