Here’s some cable/broadcast viewer data and historical/competitive comparisons about the McCain speech and the Republican National Convention last night. I’ll be posting the complete cable news data momentarily.
MCCAIN SPEECH 10-11:15PM
FOX NEWS – 9.2 MILLION
NBC – 8.7 MILLION
ABC: 6.0 MILLION
CBS: 5.3 MILLION
CNN – 4.8 MILLION
MSNBC — 2.5 MILLION
- McCain and Palin’s speeches tied to mark FOX News Channel’s highest rated convention telecasts in both FNC’s history AND in cable news history.
- McCain’s speech is tied for FNC’s third highest telecast in its history along with Gov. Sarah Palin’s on Wednesday night (9.2 million viewers) – these were only bested by the Presidential address on the eve Iraqinvasion on 3-19-03 (9.7 million viewers) and a Bush/Kerry presidential debate on 9-30-04 (9.5 million viewers).
- Nearly ¼ of the 38.9 million viewers watched this speech on FOX News.
- FNC’s primetime average last night of 7.4 million viewers was the highest rated primetime convention coverage in the network’s history and marked the third highest rated primetime ever for FNC……only eclipsed by election night 2004 (8.2 million viewers) and the Bush-Kerry Presidential debate on 9./30/04 (7.5 million)
- FNC beat CNN & MSNBC combined for the speech from 10-11:15pm and in prime-time
So the Republican network got the highest ratings during the Republican convention. Unsurprising.
@Caitlin
So would you call CNN the “democrat” network, since they received the highest ratings for the Democrat Convention?
Yeah and also during the Democratic convention too… Unsurprising, Since Fox is the fairest channel
Actually to be fair..except for O’ Rielly’s hour..CNN was No. 1 during the Democratic convention..
Using Caitlin’s better sounding logic…If Fox was No. 1 for the reason he or she states…then MSNBC was No. 1 during the Democratic Convention for the same reason….Wait you mean they weren’t No. 1 that week….Shocking
Joe, except that’s not true. FNC also won 10pm, and by a wide margin at that — they won by over 4 milion viewers!
They won the 10pm during the Democratic Convention too?
no, but this was not a post about the democratic convention I didn’t realize you were responding to Dan who for reasons I can’t even fathom posted what he posted. Sorry about that.
Angry leftist Caitlin has to “blame” something for the failure of what the left believes. Now that Olbermann and Matthews got fired from MSNBC political scene, what are liberal to do? Oh, I know, attack Sarah Palin some more.