The final night of the Republican convention, which featured President Trump’s admissible speech by the White House South Lan, had an average of 21.6 million viewers on Thursday, putting behind him a TV vote for his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden.
Early numbers from Nielsen include ABC, CBS, NBC, Telemundo, Univision and three major cable news networks. Is 8% lower than the comparable figure for Biden’s speech at his conference on August 20th.
The final total amount of Trump’s speech after today will be slightly higher, as it includes PBS and other networks that delivered the speech. Biden’s final total number was 24.6 million viewers.
Trump’s total numbers will also end well below the 35 million TV viewers who watched him accept his party’s nomination in 2016, and from the speeches of former Republican nominee John McCain (38.9 million viewers in 2008) and Mitt Romney (30.3 million viewers). Will fall short. In 2012) and George W. Bush (27.6 million in 2004).
The trend of watching TV for both 2020 conventions is lower than four years ago, as many viewers may have seen part of the event via a streaming online streaming platform that is not included in Nielsen Ratings.
In addition, Trump’s audience was probably reduced by the 70-minute length of the speech, which ended at 11:30 p.m. The number of people watching television usually decreases with the passing of the night.
TV critics noted the duration of Trump’s speech, but it was actually shorter than his 2016 address, which stopped at 75 minutes.
Focus News was the most-watched channel between 10 and 11:45 a.m. on Thursday night, with an average of 9.2 million viewers, followed by ABC (2.6 million), NBC (2.3 million), CNN (2.2 million) and MSNBC (1.85 million). CBS (1.78 million), Univision (927,000) and Telemundo (804,000).
President Trump spoke from the White House’s South Lane on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention.
(Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
Fox News – the main time venue for Trump fans – was anchored throughout the week by anchors Brett Byrne and Martha McCallum. While the network’s popular Rs servic opinion hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity appeared in prime time during the week, they were not all part of the main part of the convention coverage covered by the network.
While Fox News is a destination for viewers looking for a talk head supporting the Trump White House, the network does not allow any of its paid contributors to participate in the convention proceedings. CNN And MSNBC made exceptions to their contributors during the Democratic Convention.
