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Originally Posted by puckedoff
Lots of people watch via different media than they did in 2011 though. Its easy to catch the youtube replay the next day and not have to watch ads or the inter-debate segments.
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It may be easy but it evidently isn't easy enough.
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In its statement, Rogers noted that the video of the debate had been started 278,000 times on YouTube, Facebook, Macleans.ca and OMNI.ca, with 4.1 million total minutes viewed – meaning that, on average, each online viewer watched just less than 15 minutes of the two-hour event.
In contrast, the lone English-language debate of the past federal election, which included Mr. Harper, NDP Leader Jack Layton, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, and Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe, reached 10.6 million viewers, with an average per-minute audience of 3.85 million.
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The people most likely to watch online are young people, who happen to be the segment of society least likely to be engaged politically. I am all for opening up new venues in which to view the debates. My problem is when you restrict traditional venues (e.g.: refusing to do the consortium debates). It isn't an either/or situation. You can do both.