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Posted on 10/06/2004 2:06:29 PM PDT by Pikamax
Debate Ratings: 7.8 Mil Viewers Watch FNC Fox News Channel averaged 7,816,000 viewers during the Vice Presidential debate, according to Nielsen ratings. CNN averaged 3,326,000 viewers and MSNBC averaged 1,485,000. It was FNC's sixth highest-rated telecast ever. > Between 8 and 11pm, FNC averaged 6,301,000 viewers, CNN averaged 2,623,000 and MSNBC averaged 1,258,000.
# 10/6/2004 04:22:50 PM
and I helped.
Am I interpreting this right... does 7.8 million viewers translate to a 7.8 rating? If so, then FNC even beat NBC, which had the highest rating (6.8) amongst the networks.
No. The "rating" is a percentage.
No, the networks based on the fast national numbers each had about 10 million viewers
If that's true (I'm not neccessarily convinced it is)---why do you think it turned out that way??
How many people watched the debate total??
well done FNC
last night.. CBS 7.2/11, ABC 5.9/9, NBC 5.8.9 http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/
What "way" are you talking about?
A show's rating is normally expressed as two numbers (e.g. 7.2/11). The lower number (7.2) represents the percentage of all households which have televisions; the higher (11) is the percentage of households watching television during the show's time period.
We watched C-SPAN. They did a split screen the entire debate.
No, I mean why do you suppose more Republicans watched?? I understand the ratings system.
My wife and I and all our Republican friends watched because we love Dick Cheney and expected to see him beat the Breck Girl like a rented mule. We were neither disappointed nor surprised. :-)
Absent those reasons, why watch at all? Given that most Republicans watch Fox News Channel when possible, and non-Republicans were understandably disinterested, the other television news outlets were destined to be distant also-rans in the ratings.
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