Audience
There are not any official viewing statistics for C-SPAN because the network, which has no commercials or underwriting advertisements, does not use the Nielsen ratings, however there have been a number of surveys providing estimates. A 1994 survey found that 8.6% of the U.S. population regularly watched C-SPAN. Ten years later this figure had increased to 12% of the U.S. population, according to a Pew Research Center survey, while 31% of the population was categorized as occasional viewers. As of 2004, over 28 million people said they watched C-SPAN programming each week. A March 2009 Hart Research survey found that 20 percent of homes with cable TV watch C-SPAN at least once a week, for an estimated 39 million Americans. More than 7,000 telephone callers had participated with discussion on Washington Journal as of March 18, 2009 (2009 -03-18). The C-SPAN networks are available in more than 100 million households as of 2010, not including access to the C-SPAN websites. The results of a poll conducted by C-SPAN and Penn Schoen Berland estimates that 79 million adults in the U.S. watched C-SPAN at some time from 2009 to 2010.
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