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Post Link At Least 20 Million Watched Jan. 6 Hearing posted at 16:04:45 UTC via nytimes.com First Hearing 5 Takeaways Names to Know Jan. 6 Timeline Continue reading the main story The number is in the ballpark of big television events like a “Sunday Night Football” game. A screen showing the congressional hearing on the Jan. 6 riot at the Robert A. Taft Memorial and Carillon near Capitol Hill on Thursday.Credit...Shuran Huang for The New York Times An audience of at least 20 million people watched the first prime-time hearing of the House Select Committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on Thursday night, according to Nielsen. By scheduling a congressional hearing for 8 to 10 p.m., committee members and Democrats were hoping to make the case to the biggest audience possible. ABC, CBS and NBC pre-empted their prime-time programming and went into special-report mode to cover it live. Though the Thursday night figure pales next to presidential debates (63 million to 73 millio