Comments on: First Night Democratic Convention Ratings Way Up Over 2004

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:56:12 +0000

Frank, they reflect the average number of viewers watching during the entire time period specified.

For the graphic above there are two time periods: total day (defined as 6a-3a) and prime-time (8p-11p).

It is correct to say, for example, that on average 3.7 million people were watching CNN during the period from 8-11p Monday night.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:40:46 +0000

My question about these ratings are do they reflect an entire night? I ask this because on a typical night I find myself tuning into fox for about 5-10 minutes and then tuning to CNN for the rest of the night. I wonder if I am alone in doing this. I typically turn to fox to get the Republican side and to msnbc for the democrat and then to CNN for the rest of the night. Caan you answer tat question and comment.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:40:35 +0000

By: i love bush (not the pres)

i love bush (not the pres) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:38:29 +0000

msnbc had the biggest growth in total viewers for total day and primetime.

2nd most in primetime for the demo, and the most in total day for the demo.

awesome!

By: i love bush (not the pres)

i love bush (not the pres) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:33:17 +0000

very well put bill, especially the last part about the larger fan base of right leaning viewers at fnc.

By: Moderate

Moderate — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:06:18 +0000

At 8PM O'Reilly on Fox gets 3,296,000 viewers MSNBC gets 2,039,000 viewers CNN gets 2,292,000 viewers.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the...

By: greggp

greggp — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:10:55 +0000

OK Bill, that's fair. So where did it come from? I'll be glad to tell whoever it is to do it.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:30:19 +0000

Ah, it appears Bill posted this information instead of the normal information we receive, but it also appears that we did not receive the information for Monday that we typically receive. Sorry…

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:22:28 +0000

I was asking about Monday

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:09:13 +0000

Joe, we will have those numbers ~3pm PDT

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:04:54 +0000

ORielly said last night that his show won the 8pm Eastern. You don't have your regular nightly breakdown. Any numbers to back that up.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:32:38 +0000

greggp, correct you are sir! But I cannot claim that particular table. Unlike almost all the other graphics/tables on our site, that one came from elsewhere.

By: greggp

greggp — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:27:43 +0000

Fix your table title. It's called the DEMOCRATIC National Convention.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:22:03 +0000

Moderate, Joe,

CNN is prone to viewership "surges" for big news events. People who rarely watch cable news tune to them when something big happens that's covered by everybody (as opposed to something like a debate/interview carried on only one network).

MSNBC viewership just doesn't behave that way. They have a solid block of, presumably, left leaning viewers that turns out for them, but doesn't have that surge capability.

Fox News is more like MSNBC in that regard except their base block of right leaning viewers is larger than MSNBC's base.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:26:52 +0000

I agree with Moderate. Embarassing in more ways then one for MSNBC..and they deserve what they get…hats off to CNN numbers…

By: Moderate

Moderate — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:10:06 +0000

At 8PM O'Reilly on Fox gets 3,296,000 viewers MSNBC gets 2,039,000 viewers during the Democratic convention. That is a total embarrassment for MSNBC, which is totally in the tank for the Democrats.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:08:24 +0000

not surprisingly probably but the broadcast nets were down about a million viewers or ~8% from the first night of 2004 coverage.