Convention ratings in the crapper

[ringmastery]

This sucks. Few people watched Clinton's amazing speech.

THE BIG YAWN: NETWORKS IN RATINGS FREEFALL AT CONVENTION, OPENING NIGHT ALL-TIME LOW: ABCNEWS JENNINGS WITH 3.5 RATING/5 SHARE ; NBCNEWS BROKAW 3.3/5 <2000:4.8/9>; CBS DAN RATHER 3.2/5 <2000:3.8/7... TRAIL ALL OTHER PRIME-TIME MONDAY PROGRAMMING [CBS:MIAMI RERUN ON CBS PULLS 8.6 RATING/13 SHARE>... DEVELOPING...

[Joe the Revelator]

1. Stop listening to drudge

Those ratings don't take any of the Cable news ratings into account OR CSPAN.

[ringmastery]

3. cable news doesn't have the penetration of the networks

they would get fractional ratings of what the networks would get.

[K-W]

10. right, but add all the ratings up and it isnt so dire as he paints it

thats the point.

[rinsd]

13. C-Span???

There are more people on DU than watch C-Span.

[Cha]

2. All my friends were watching C-SPAN!

That's where we should all watch it..it's the only one without all that smirky commentary.

[lancdem]

4. I think the problem was

they didn't start until 10 p.m. They've never done that before. I think a lot of people probably went to bed.

I really hope they improve by Thursday!

[Connie_Corleone]

5. That's because we were watching C-Span.

It's a waste of time to watch the convention on the 3 major networks and the cable news networks.

The idiots on there don't know how to shut the hell up so you can hear the speeches.

[Lex]

6. Everyone I know who was watching was watching CSPAN!

And I know at least 30 people, friends and family, who were watching.

Screw CNN, MSNBC, etc. No one wants to hear their stupid bullshit drivel anyway. They are a joke.

[West Coast Democrat]

7. More Flame Bait....

What's next?

[genius]

8. They'd improve if they gave Kucinich and Moore a bigger role.

[redqueen]

9. Don't buy this crap

Just about everyone I know listened to PBS or watched C-Span.

Whores desperately spinning... update at 11!

[DinahMoeHum]

11. PBS isn't much better - but they're covering prime time 3 hours

8 pm - 11 pm

They've also got commentators Mark Shields and David Brooks.


:kick:

[LTR]

12. Those are for the broadcast networks

I assume many were watching on cable.

When you add up the Big Four, and CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, C-SPAN, PBS, etc., I'm willing to bet the numbers all added up will be fairly decent.

All that paragraph says is that not as many people watched network coverage.

[sandnsea]

14. I watched C-Span

I think anybody who was planning on watching the convention was either watching on cable or C-Span. I'm not surprised by the broadcast ratings at all.

[Moderator]

15. Locking

Flamebait and there are verious other topics on this.