Posted on 09/05/2008 8:16:50 AM PDT by B Knotts
Presidential candidate John McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention drew more television viewers than his rival Barack Obama attracted at the Democratic party's event last week, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen Media Research.
Across all broadcast networks Thursday, Sen. McCain’s speech ended the night with a 4.8 rating/7 share, compared to Sen. Obama’s 4.3/7 average, according to overnight numbers from metered households in 55 U.S. markets measured by Nielsen. These ratings are preliminary, however, and are subject to change.
NBC’s coverage of Sen. McCain’s speech started directly at the tail end of the opening game of NFL season, with the speech pulling in a 6.3 rating/10 share, topping Sen. Obama’s speech last week by 26%. That lead-in may have boosted audiences who last night turned out in droves to watch Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin introduce herself to the country.
ABC’s showing of the McCain speech averaged a 4.5/7, down 2% from the same night of the Democratic convention last week, while CBS’ coverage took in a 3.4/5, an increase of 3%.
Wow.
I cut off the first letter, and didn’t notice until I hit “Post.” Sorry. :-P
This is good!!
What were “Slave State” Biden’s speech’s numbers?
Freudian slip.
We know McCain’s “residential”...we don’t know *where* Uhbummuh was born....:))
Was the biographical video shown right after the NFL game? I certainly hope so!! I think that alone would be worth about 5 million votes!
JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN!
Yeah - Well, he is the most qualified “residential candidate” ...
Got 7 houses already, a beer distributor, and is aiming at 1660 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Yes. They delayed it until about 10 seconds after the game ended.
I was wondering about that NFL game—glad it must have ended just as the speech started? Good timing then. Maybe people were still sitting around and started flipping channels and ended up watching McCain.
Not sure of all the implications, but that sure does seem like a good indicator.
Interest level + McCain geting his unfiltered message out = good.
I’m surprised, but glad. Didn’t watch it—figured it was RINO night.
I think they were around 24 million compared to Palin’s 38 million (which I think as of this morning were revised up to 40 million beating Barack Obama, atleast that is what I heard Megyn Kelly say).
Wow times infinity! LOL
I figured Palin would be big, since she was so new to most.
But McCain kicking Obama’s ass!!!!!!!
Yeah baby!
The real thing makes a difference eh!
I can see the headlines now, "Elitist McCain has Eight Houses!"
Putting things together.
# of viewers for Obama/Biden appx. 62 million viewers
# of viewers for McCain/Palin appx. 77 million viewers.
The so-called ‘excitement gap’ seems to have disappeared.
A) Preliminary numbers... meaning the MSM can bury the story without reporting all the numbers.
B) I still wish they could somehow include how many watched over the internet because I bet that there were alot more for Obama than McCain (just due to demographics wise)
C)At LEAST PEOPLE are Watching!
This is a surprise.
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