Comments on: Thursday Night 10pm Viewer Demographics for McCain’s Acceptance Speech

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:37:34 +0000

LOL! My guess is that the leprechauns got to the blog! Irishness removed

By: Mikey

Mikey — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:29:18 +0000

Who’s this Irish dude running for President? Barack O’Bama?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:29:36 +0000

Timothy, more men watched McCain’s acceptance speech than Obama’s speech according to Nielsen. Unfortunately I do not have the data for Obama broken out by gender here.

but yes, 19.2 million women who watched McCain is more than the 17.9 million men who watched McCain.

By: Timothy Powell

Timothy Powell — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:55:31 +0000

Where are you guys looking. From what I see, it shows:

Men – 17.9 Million
Women – 19.2 Million

That’s more women!?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:02:52 +0000

I didn’t write “far more men” anywhere. Just “more men”. I think in the link Nielsen did say “significantly more men” than Obama’s speech but I think it’s where you get into comparing apples-to-pears with some data being for all viewers (even those under 18) and some being for the 18+. Unfortunately I don’t have the similar data (gender-wise) for Obama so I can’t state the relative comparisons. But yes, the number of women 18+ watching was over a million higher than men 18+.

By: Fred Farrar

Fred Farrar — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:55:18 +0000

Robert–
It doesn’;t seem to me MCain delivcered “far more mnen”.
Technically, didn’t the rating for men just barely — but the number of women watching McCain was over a million higher than men?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:50:08 +0000

Alex, technically according to Nielsen the game ended at 10:01. But that’s a good point about the male viewers. I was rooting for overtime – and not just to see NBC squirm about what to do, but because I am a Redskin fan. My rooting was as effective as rooting to win the lottery has been

By: Alex Gittleson

Alex Gittleson — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:45:31 +0000

Of course he delivered far more men — the 60% male composition from the Giant game on NBC gave McCain 5 million + plus men alone as the immediate lead-out. I’m sure many of these guys would have watched anyway, but NBCs M18-49 numbers were 70 PERCENT higher than the combined ABC/CBS male audience. Hardly a coincidence. What a break for McCain — the game ended EXACTLY at 10pm and they didn’t even do post-game interviews so they could throw it to Brian Williams in St. Paul.