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budkin (490 posts) Fri Sep-05-08 12:26 PMOriginal message McCain TV Ratings Beat Obama in Preliminary Numbers Advertisements [?]Source: TV WeekPresidential candidate John McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention drew more television viewers than his rival Barack Obama attracted at the Democratic party's event last week, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen Media Research.Across all broadcast networks Thursday, Sen. McCain’s speech ended the night with a 4.8 rating/7 share, compared to Sen. Obama’s 4.3/7 average, according to overnight numbers from metered households in 55 U.S. markets measured by Nielsen. These ratings are preliminary, however, and are subject to change.NBC’s coverage of Sen. McCain’s speech started directly at the tail end of the opening game of NFL season, with the speech pulling in a 6.3 rating/10 share, topping Sen. Obama’s speech last week by 26%. That lead-in may have boosted audiences who last night turned out in droves to watch Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin introduce herself to the country.ABC’s showing of the McCain speech averaged a 4.5/7, down 2% from the same night of the Democratic convention last week, while CBS’ coverage took in a 3.4/5, an increase of 3%. Read more: http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/09/mccain_tv_ratings_be... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------More people saw how awful the speech was? Great!
Kali (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-05-08 02:43 PMResponse to Reply #2 31. bingo let's talk about live audience, shall we?
kwolf68 (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-05-08 12:30 PMResponse to Original message 3. So he got more People to watch than Obama's historic speech even though McLame was competing against the first NFL game of the season.Again, it makes no sense.
Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-05-08 12:50 PMResponse to Reply #3 11. He wasn't competing against it. The NFL game ended before he spoke He had a better lead in than Obama that's about it.Anyway, if Joe "I dare you to call me a Republican toady" Scarborough thought the speech was uninspired think what the general public thought.
GreenGreenLimaBean (384 posts) Fri Sep-05-08 01:47 PMResponse to Reply #3 25. makes sense to me I can almost guarantee that most Republicans didn't watch Obama, while most Dems probably did watch last night. So when you think about it, Obama had a starting audience of 30-40% lower than McCain and still topped him.
ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-05-08 12:31 PMResponse to Original message 5. That's only because NBC orchestrated a football game for a lead in. How transparent is that? Moved the starting time up to help the Republicans!
