Time Net Show 18-49 Rating/Sh Viewers (millions)
8:00 NBC NFL Kickoff 2012- Live 5.5/17 14.32
CBS Big Brother 2.1/6 6.09
FOX So You Think You Can Dance 1.4/4 4.14
ABC The Middle - R 1.1/4 4.55
CW Oh Sit! 0.4/1 1.14
8:30 NBC NFL Football (8:30-11PM) - Live 8.7/23 21.81
ABC Suburgatory - R 0.9/2 3.28
9:00 ABC Modern Family - R 1.3/3 3.78
CBS Criminal Minds - R 1.2/3 5.16
CW Supernatural - R 0.3/1 0.78
9:30 ABC Suburgatory - R 1.0/3 2.97
10:00 CBS Democratic National Convention - Live 0.9/2 3.94
ABC Democratic National Convention - Live 0.9/2 3.54
As I suspected, the football game kicked butt. (Just like the Cowboys kicked the Giants’ butt, too!) Too bad the craven NFL kow-towed to the One by moving the game from Thursday to Wednesday. Nobody would have watched his “I love me” speech tonight.
On another note, both conventions had smaller audiences than 2008. What that tells me is that the vast majority of the electorate has already decided how they are going to vote, and that decision is pretty firm. The “Great Uniter,” Brak Hussien Zero, has left us a very sharply divided country.