Financial wise, all 3 cable news networks made the right decision. FoxNews averaged 2.3 million viewers from 8-10 PM slot, they had 3 million last night. But the big winners were MSNBC who averaged 1.1 million viewers, they came in with 4.2 million total viewers, CNN which averages 660,000 rose to 2.6 million viewers. ABC which averaged 4.2 million viewers with prime-time regular scheduled program rose to 4.9 million CBS averaged 6.4 for their regular prime time shows dropped to 3.4 million while NBC which averaged 6.3 million, fell to 3.6 million.

By showing the hearings
ABC rose 0.7 million viewers over their average
CBS fell by 3 million viewers from their average
NBC fell by 2.9 million viewers from their average
CNN rose by 2 million viewers over their average
MSNBC rose by 3.1 million viewers over their average

Sticking with regular scheduled programs, FoxNews rose by 0.7 million over their average. No info on the breakdown of who watched them yet, i.e. Republicans, Democrats, independents. I suspect that will come later.

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.