Boy, am I glad to have had that 300 million viewer spread on the Debate vs. Monday Night Football because if it had just been a more reasonable 100 million “sets of eyeballs” advantage, Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump might not have covered after the Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints suffered the lowest TV rating in the 46-year history of Monday Night Football.
Chew on this: in 1972 about 30 million U.S. households owned a television (and only half of them were color TVs) compared to 115 million TV homes today.