The closing of the Democratic Nationwide Convention drew a giant viewers Thursday — topping each the ultimate night time of the get together’s gathering 4 years in the past and that of the Republican conference in July.
Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the get together’s nomination to high the Democratic ticket and oppose Republican nominee Donald Trump. Protection of the Democrats’ closing night time averaged 26.2 million viewers throughout 15 broadcast and cable networks, in accordance with Nielsen figures. That’s about 820,000 extra individuals than the 25.38 million who watched the ultimate night time of the Republican Nationwide Convention.
Thursday’s complete is up considerably over the primary three days of the Democratic conference, which averaged 20.33 million viewers and have been very constant night time to nighttime: Monday averaged 20.03 million viewers, Tuesday introduced in 20.78 million and Wednesday drew 20.18 million throughout broadcast and cable networks. Including in Thursday’s complete, the conference as an entire averaged 21.8 million viewers in primetime, a slight enchancment the 2020 conference’s four-night common of 21.59 million viewers.
The DNC’s four-day common additionally topped the July Republican conference in TV viewers by a 14 % margin; the RNC averaged 19.07 million viewers over 4 nights.
Because it did all through the week, MSNBC drew the most important viewers for any single community on Thursday. It averaged 6.53 million viewers from Sept. 11:30 p.m. ET Wednesday, nicely forward of second-place ABC (4.23 million). CNN got here in third with 3.94 million viewers, adopted by NBC at 3.01 million. Fox Information (2.45 million) narrowly beat CBS (2.42 million).
These six networks made up about 86 % of the overall TV viewers on Thursday; the remaining 3.62 million viewers have been unfold throughout PBS, Scripps Information, Telemundo, Univision, BET, CNNe, Fox Enterprise, Newsmax and NewsNation.
MSNBC additionally led all comers Thursday within the core information demographic of adults 25-54 with 1.28 million such viewers. CNN (1.13 million) grabbed second within the demo, and ABC was third with 1.05 million adults 25-54. NBC had 857,000 viewers within the demo, adopted by CBS at 607,000 and Fox Information at 358,000.
Thursday’s mixed viewership peaked throughout Harris’ acceptance speech, as she turned the second lady and first lady of shade to clinch a major-party presidential nomination. Her speech averaged about 28.9 million viewers, in accordance with Nielsen. All figures cited on this story are for TV viewing and don’t embrace streaming.
Aug. 23, 2:48 p.m. An earlier model of this story misstated the all-network viewers for the Democratic conference on Thursday.