“The Hunting Ground,” a documentary about rape on college campuses, attracted an average of 179,000 live and same-day viewers Sunday night in the 25-to-54 age group, the highest average for cable news networks during the nearly two-hour period that began at 8 p.m. Eastern.
The documentary, which was broadcast on CNN, provided a 10 percent boost in that critical demographic compared with the four Sundays ending Nov. 8. (The next Sunday featured coverage of the Paris terror attacks.) Over all, “The Hunting Ground” attracted an average of 457,000 viewers, second in cable news to Fox News’s 970,000.
The documentary was shown in full despite legal action threatened by John A.