TV Ratings: Night one of DNC tops night one of RNC

[RandySF]

Night one of the Democratic National Convention delivered approximately 26 million viewers during the 10 p.m.-11:30 p.m. time period, topping night one of the Republican National Convention last week, which drew approximately 23 million viewers, according to preliminary ratings data from Nielsen.

Those figures do not include people watching on TV networks not rated by Nielsen, like C-SPAN, or that streamed the convention online.

The total viewership figure is up from 2008, when 22.3 million viewers tuned into night one. It is very close to 2012’s opening night, which drew 26.3 million viewers.

During the 10 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. time period, CNN was tops in total viewers with 6.2 million, followed by MSNBC with 4.6 million, NBC with 4.3 million, ABC with 4.1 million, Fox News with 3.3 million and CBS with 3.2 million.

In prime time from 8 p.m. to11 p.m, CNN led cable news with 5.1 million viewers, MSNBC placed second with 3.75 million viewers and Fox News averaged 3.73 million viewers.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/07/tv-ratings-night-one-of-dnc-tops-night-one-of-rnc-226224

[Old and In the Way]

1. I'll bet a lot of Demcrats watched the Republic Convention.

Maybe 20% of total viewers. I further think that Republicans will be a much smaller % of total viewers for the Democratic Convention, maybe 10% or less.. My reasoning - in the former, D's want to see what the opposition is saying and doing. We are a lot more curious and interested in understanding how this Party ticks. On the latter, the average R is ideologically more rigid in their political/social world view. They are much less interested in having that mindset subjected to challenge by a reality based Party.

[uponit7771]

2. +1