Trump urges viewers to skip Clinton speech as Democrats rack up ratings wins

[CPUd]

Trump urges viewers to skip Clinton speech as Democrats rack up ratings wins

President Obama's prime time speech lifted the Democratic convention to its third straight night of ratings wins over the Republican convention last week -- and now the Trump campaign is exhorting supporters not to watch the Democrats' final night.

About 24 million viewers watched Wednesday's DNC coverage on the six biggest channels (CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox News), according to preliminary Nielsen data.

Last Wednesday's RNC coverage drew 23.4 million viewers across eight channels.

The coverage of Obama's speech and Hillary Clinton's appearance on stage spilled into the typically lower-rated 11 p.m. hour, but the ratings results indicate that most viewers kept watching until the very end of the evening.

For the third night in a row, CNN was #1 overall, with 6.17 million viewers between 10 and 11:45 p.m. MSNBC was #2 with 4.92 million. NBC was #3 with 4.17 million.

The Democratic ratings advantage has come as something of a surprise, given Donald Trump's reputation as a ratings magnet.

Related: Convention ratings: Democrats beat Republicans, and cable tops broadcast

Last week he touted the viewership for his Republican convention and predicted that no one would watch the Democrats.

On Thursday morning, Trump's campaign sent a fund-raising email urging supporters not to tune into Clinton's acceptance speech on Thursday night.

"Unless you want to be lied to, belittled, and attacked for your beliefs, don't watch Hillary's DNC speech tonight," the email read. "Instead, help Donald Trump hold her accountable, call out her lies and fight back against her nasty attacks."

The email could be interpreted two ways: As a creative way to raise money off of Clinton's speech or an admission of insecurity by the Trump campaign.

Trump frequently boasts about the high ratings his interviews and speeches receive, but the Clintons and Obamas are demonstrating their ratings power this week. Coverage of the DNC in the 10 p.m. hour on broadcast and cable has been higher-rated than the same convention in 2012 and higher-rated than the RNC proceedings last week.

Monday night's speeches were seen by 26 million viewers across seven channels, versus 23 million for night one of the RNC.

Tuesday night's DNC coverage averaged 24 million, versus 19 million for night two of the RNC.

The Nielsen estimates do not account for live streaming, on demand video viewing, PBS, or C-SPAN.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/28/medi...ree/index.html

[CaptUSA]

Yep - this is what teh Donald really cares about - ratings. If Hillary gets better ratings than he does, he loses his value to the media. And since they are the key contributors to his campaign, he can't have that.

[silverhandorder]

http://deadline.com/2016/07/dnc-rati...es-1201794089/

Two of the nets saw viewership drops from Day 3 of the RNC with NBC down 37% and CBS dipping 2%. ABC, on the other hand, had a 33% uptick in viewers last night from the 2.02 million who watched their RNC coverage on July 20. Looking at the Bill Clinton-dominated second night of the DNC, last night’s combined 18-49 numbers were down 25% from July 26’s early numbers

[dannno]

http://deadline.com/2016/07/dnc-rati...es-1201794089/

Two of the nets saw viewership drops from Day 3 of the RNC with NBC down 37% and CBS dipping 2%. ABC, on the other hand, had a 33% uptick in viewers last night from the 2.02 million who watched their RNC coverage on July 20. Looking at the Bill Clinton-dominated second night of the DNC, last night’s combined 18-49 numbers were down 25% from July 26’s early numbers

Lol... ya actually the biggest surprise is that there are more Hillary protesters than there were Trump protesters.

[kahless]

You tell people not to look at something is basically an advertisement to look at it. This is really genius since once people see and here her it will be another drop in the polls.

The ratings the Dems are getting are actually bad news for them since the convention looks like they are trying to appeal to a small angry minority in this country while alienating the majority of the voters they need. She will already drop in the polls due to the convention, having people hear her speak will only seal her fate in the polls.

[CPUd]

[CPUd]

You tell people not to look at something is basically an advertisement to look at it. This is really genius since once people see and here her it will be another drop in the polls.

The ratings the Dems are getting are actually bad news for them since the convention looks like they are trying to appeal to a small angry minority in this country while alienating the majority of the voters they need. She will already drop in the polls due to the convention, having people hear her speak will only seal her fate in the polls.

People don't want to see them do 3 hours of attacking Trump like they did last night. They need to sell their party and its nominee to the undecided voters.

[dean.engelhardt]

I watched Bernie sell out on day one. After that my TV is dedicated to SYFY Sharknado Week!

[A. Havnes]

I figured people were watching because of the DNC leaks, probably wondering if anyone was going to bring it up, etc. Drama sells, especially new drama that hasn't already been dragged out over the whole election. It's not because Obama is speaking (unless they were naive enough to assume the President was going to call out the DNC for their bias), it's not because Bill Clinton is speaking, it's because there's shenanigans going on behind the curtains and the leaks make us all feel like Toto, peeking behind the proverbial curtain and becoming privy to some dark secret. Much like Toto, we want to see how far we can draw the curtains back and share all this gossip and conspiracy with our friends, whom we assume still have their eyes fixed upon the illusion at hand.

In fact, that's exactly what this convention has been like. The illusion of the Great and Power Oz is the illusion of unity within the Democratic party, but everyone now knows it's splintered because of the normal establishment and their blatant bias.

Point of all that is that the DNC isn't getting ratings because Hillary is popular. We just want to watch this play out and eat our popcorn with big, smug grins on our faces because we all know what's up.

[nikcers]

It's not because Obama is speaking it's not because Bill Clinton is speaking,

Point of all that is that the DNC isn't getting ratings because Hillary is popular. We just want to watch this play out and eat our popcorn with big, smug grins on our faces because we all know what's up.

Lliberals love watching Bill and Obama talk, I don't like their policies but you can read for hours all of the comments people write about how they are such good speakers. The coverage that Clinton's got during the 2011 DNC was huge and record breaking. Lots of people claim it was Clintons backing that pushed him over the edge to beat Mitt Romney. This is the inside joke that we have been in on the entire time, Trump has ruined every chance of building a coalition to challenge theirs.


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