Hillary Clinton’s formal acceptance of the Democratic nomination for president came with a nod to her decades at the center of American politics – and to the introduction she still needs to make if she is to win in November.
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Trump’s speech at the RNC one week earlier averaged 30 million viewers across the same channels.
Donald Trump pulled off the upset at least in television popularity.
Nielsen’s convention numbers do not include PBS, C-SPAN or live streams. That fell short of the 32.2 million people who watched Trump speak to the Republicans a week before.
But the vast majority of convention viewing still happens the traditional way – live, on TV sets, through channels like CNN and NBC. NBC was #3 with 4.5 million.
But the Democrats’ gathering in Philadelphia turned out to be higher-rated than the Republican convention in Cleveland through Wednesday. While the 2016 DNC topped its RNC competitor, it did not out-rate the second night of the 2012 DNC, which garnered 25.12 million viewers.
From 10 p.m.to 11:15 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, CNN led the way in viewership for the second night in a row, beating all other news networks with 5.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen data provided by the network.
YouTube has previously shared that since past year when the political candidates were first announced, viewers have watched more than 110 million hours of election content. The conventions surely grew that number significantly, though YouTube did not update its figure today.
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And Wednesday night attracted 24.4 million viewers, versus 23.4 million viewers for the RNC.
