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Nearly 17M watch Jenner interview

NEW YORK

Former Olympian Bruce Jenner reached an audience of just under 17 million people for his declaration in an ABC News interview that he identifies as a woman.

The Nielsen company said Saturday 16.9 million viewers watched the interview on ABC’s “20/20” newscast Friday night.

The audience was the biggest for a nonsports show on a Friday night since 2003, which would exclude Olympics broadcasts. Friday is generally a light night for television viewing because so many people have plans outside the house.

It also was the biggest audience for ABC’s “20/20” newscast on a Friday night in 15 years. Nielsen said viewership peaked just after 10 p.m. with 17.2 million viewers.

Nielsen Social also estimated that there were 972,000 tweets sent Friday night about the Jenner interview.

Judge: Attending Pink show didn’t harm girl

TOMS RIVER, N.J.

A mom’s decision to take her 11-year-old daughter to a Pink concert has a judge saying, “So what?”

The New Jersey judge says the concert trip isn’t evidence of bad parenting.

NJ.com reports the girl’s parents are divorced, and her father accused his ex-wife of abusing her parental discretion by taking their daughter to the December 2013 concert at the Prudential Center in Newark.

But state Superior Court Judge Lawrence Jones rejected the complaint in a 37-page decision.

Associated Press