GOP convention's first night draws fewer viewers than Democratic kickoff

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hil

The Republican National Convention averaged 15.9 million viewers on its opening night, falling short of the 18.7 million who tuned in for the beginning of last week's Democratic convention, according to Nielsen Media Research figures released Tuesday.

Viewership on Monday evening was down 30 percent from the first night of the 2016 GOP convention, similar to the 28 percent decline from four years ago for Democrats.

Fox News led all networks on Monday with 7.06 million viewers in the 10 p.m. ET hour, when former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley (R) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) were among those giving speeches.

CNN was second with 2.009 million viewers, followed by ABC with 1.978 million.


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[redstatebluegirl]

1. Who wants to bet he will be screaming "fake ratings" tonight.

[riversedge]

5. no bets on that one. Of course he will

[forgotmylogin]

13. "Three million people watched the DNC illegally!"

--probably.

[SunSeeker]

2. Boring and failing!

[cyclonefence]

3. Without Brad Parscale to blame

who's going to take the heat for this one?

This just tickles me to death. Ratings are Trump's lifeblood, and being a LOSER is what he fears most. What a perfect storm.

Can't wait to see the adjustments to tonight's thunderfest.

[Stallion]

4. So about 10% of Americans are Tuning in

[OrlandoDem2]

6. Democrats better not tune in and help these numbers!!

[groundloop]

9. Oh hell no..... my stomach couldn't take it.

After 10 minutes I'd be throwing things at the television.

[Withywindle]

15. Hell no, you couldn't pay me to drink this hot garbage juice

I'll wait for the lowlights to get a good mocking on Twitter afterward.

[Marie Marie]

7. Hit him in his weak spot - Ratings!!

[regnaD kciN]

8. Probably one of the reasons for all the screaming last night...

...was to get a lot of headlines so that the public will want to tune in to this sh*tshow tonight to see what's going to happen next.

[qwlauren35]

10. What did the RNC offer?

I watched streaming from the DNC site. DNC also offered YouTube and Facebook. Were we counted? What about C-Span?

[bucolic_frolic]

11. #imnotwatchingnurembergtonight

You know what I mean?

[Edwcraig]

12. Failed President. Failed reality TV host. Oh my.

[Maxheader]

14. I don't know what they were laughing at..

But an hispanic tv station i was surfing through showed melania speaking and the announcer was giggling at something..