Any Freeper have the broadcast numbers of the first night of the DNC to compare this against? The Headline says this IS the DNC numbers.
Posted on 09/01/2004 11:05:37 AM PDT by GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
As for coverage of The Republican Convention at 10 p.m., take a look:
-Overnights: NBC: 4.3/ 6, ABC and CBS: 3.4/ 5 each
-Viewers: CBS: 5.80 million, NBC: 5.50, ABC: 4.12
-Adults 18-49: NBC: 2.4/ 6, CBS: 2.2/ 6, ABC: 1.4/ 4
Source: Nielsen Media Research data
Any Freeper have the broadcast numbers of the first night of the DNC to compare this against? The Headline says this IS the DNC numbers.
Why should we care how the DNC rates the Republican Convention?
Shoot. How did I manage to do that.
Moderator, can you change DNC to RNC?
Night before last, Fox had over 4,000,000 viewers in the primetime segment. More then cnn&msnbc combined!
The numbers are similar to the DNC first night broadcast numbers, wait for the cable new outlets to come out so you get a clearer pictures, remember us Republicans are more likely to tune into cable news.
Freudian slip???
There is a part of me that wishes more people watched Kerry's speech than will watch Bush. The more that watch Kerry the better our numbers.
Hell no. I don't vote Democrat. I've written in names of people in DeKalb County because there was only democrats running for office in this pathetic county.
I think it's just plain stupidity on my part.
>>Why should we care how the DNC rates the Republican Convention?<<
hehehe.
"Arnold Schwartzenegger gets... 6.0! 6.0! 6.0! 6.0! 6.0! 3.9???... East German judge?"
"DNC"
"Same thing."
Forget the first night of the DNC... these numbers look comparable to Kerry's acceptance speech:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1182121/posts
Surge of interest in Kerry propels convention ratings
DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
(07-30) 15:30 PDT NEW YORK (AP) --
Based on television ratings, Americans were more interested in what John Kerry had to say in his nomination acceptance speech than they were for Al Gore in 2000.
An estimated 24.4 million viewers watched Kerry's speech on the six biggest networks Thursday night, compared to 21.1 million people who saw Gore four years earlier, Nielsen Media Research reported on Friday.
Despite Thursday's surge of interest, the overall television rating for the four-day Democratic convention was the lowest it had been since Nielsen began keeping records in 1960. In terms of viewers, it was roughly on a par with 2000, Nielsen said.
The ratings also reflected the continued erosion in ABC, CBS and NBC's news audience for big events compared to the cable news networks.
Nearly three million fewer viewers watched the convention's final night on those three networks than did in 2000. The difference came in the cable networks: 15.6 million people watched Kerry speak on ABC, CBS or NBC, while 8.8 million saw it on CNN, Fox News Channel or MSNBC.
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Drudge had a report the other day stating that FNC had a total of 3.8 million viewers for night #1 of the convention, more than CNN/MSNBC/CNBC combined--and very close to the audience totals for ABC and CBS.
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And ABC and CBS didn't show night #1. Did Fox's covention coverage almost surpass Monday Night Football?
DNC first night numbers: 3.4, 3.3, 3.3.
These are actually considerably better.
Where do you get the 20 million number from? Fox had 3.8 million, peaking at over 4 and hald million during Giulianis speech, CNN had 1.2 million and PMSDNC had 800,000, not quite close to 20 million there.
You cant compare first nights people. Or second nights to first nights.
You cant compare first night DNC cable numbers with first night RNC cable numbers. The DNC numbers are skewed because they would have bled ratings to the broadcast channels.
RNC cable numbers would be skewed because of a lack of choice, only cable networks plus PBS showed it. So RNC cable numbers will be larger.
The best math will be on friday when you can compile the entire week and look at it that way.
For 40 million viewers in the Arab world, Al-Jazeera, a Qatar-based satellite television channel, provides a window into the intricate world of American politics. This week, its 16 reporters and staff will air 13 hours of broadcasts from the convention -- more time than the combined coverage of America's major television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC.
I think the GOP is making a danged stupid mistake if they're admitting the terrorist apologists of Al Jizzhera to the Convention.
Those bustards are probably scoping Madison Sq. Garden out for places to plant bombs!
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