Ratings For Convention Slip
By Chuck Barney
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 at 1:37 pm in Uncategorized.
The first night of the Democratic National Convention, featuring a speech by Michelle Obama, drew fewer broadcast television viewers than the event four years ago, when former President Bill Clinton kicked things off, according to TV Week, which cited preliminary Nielsen numbers.
ABC, CBS and NBC collectively brought in 12.1 million viewers in the 7 p.m. hour (10 p.m. on the East Coast), down one million from 2004.
NBC scored the largest audience, averaging 4.85 million viewers. ABC finished second with 3.78 million, and CBS was third at 3.52 million viewers.
Cable ratings were not yet available.
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August 26th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
I think you will find these pre-convention shows from Denver and Minneapolis done for CURRENT TV and Al Gore interesting. They are full of laughs and facts. Still airing on cable i think but also archived online at the following links.
Denver
http://current.com/items/89221795_unconventionally_yours
Minneapolis-St.Paul
http://current.com/items/89225401_unconventionally_yours