August 26, 2020
Don’t be fooled by the low Nielsen ratings for the RNC’s first night
By Andrea Widburg
The mainstream media and others on the left are happy to report that the television ratings reveal that the RNC’s audience on the first night of its convention was 29% lower than for the first night in 2016. However, this fails to account for something significant, which was that C-SPAN’s audience was almost 600% greater than the DNC’s C-SPAN numbers for the first night of its convention. Put another way, huge numbers of Americans wanted to watch the Republican convention. They just didn’t want to watch the media mediate it.
Because numbers are involved here, let me make sure everybody is operating from the same set of facts:
In 2016, according to Nielsen, on the first night of the Democrat convention, 26 million people watched on television. Nielson’s numbers for the first night of the 2016 Republican convention held that 23 million people watched it on television.
Both of those were traditionally run conventions, with everyone gathered in a single venue, and lots of time out for cheering, during which the media talking heads could insert their commentary.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/dont_be_fooled_by_the_low_nielsen_ratings_for_the_rncs_first_night.html
