The Republican Nationwide Conference’s viewership topped 2020’s complete for the ultimate night time, which featured former President Donald Trump’s nomination acceptance from Milwaukee.
The Hollywood Reporter mentioned, the variety of viewers averaged 25.38 million folks throughout 14 shops on Thursday night time.
“That was up about 7 p.c from the ultimate night time of the 2020 conference (23.81 million viewers throughout 13 channels). Nielsen says the viewers peaked between 10:45 and 11 p.m. ET, early in Trump’s speech,” the Reporter famous.
It was early in his speech when the forty fifth president mentioned the July 13 assassination try, which he mentioned he solely deliberate to inform as soon as.
Viewership for this yr’s Republican Nationwide Conference averaged round 19 million viewers throughout all 4 nights, up barely from 2020 however down round 22% from 2016.
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— Axios (@axios) July 20, 2024
The common viewership of 19.07 million over the 4 nights was barely under 2020 common of 19.39 million, however three of the 4 nights did beat the final conference’s totals. Nonetheless, Tuesday night time noticed a 24 p.c decline from 4 years in the past, bringing the whole common down.
The Reporter identified that Main League Baseball’s All-Star Sport additionally aired Tuesday, which can have pulled away some viewers.
About 72 p.c of the viewers — 18.36 million — Thursday night time was 55 and over.
Fox Information led all shops in viewership totals.
In a information launch, the outlet mentioned it took in three-quarters of the prime-time viewers among the many shops.
Of the over 25 million who tuned in Thursday night time, Fox attracted 10.3 million of them, making it the community’s most watched program of the yr.
The earlier excessive water mark of the yr had been the June 27 CNN presidential debate between Trump and President Joe Biden, with Fox Information’ simulcast drawing roughly 9.3 million viewers.
Fox crushed its rivals in its Thursday night time protection of the RNC conference.
NBC drew the subsequent largest viewers with 3.89 million; adopted by ABC at 2.79 million; CNN, 1.97 million; CBS, 1.91 million, and MSNBC, 1.19 million.
Fox’s protection drew practically double the viewership of ABC, CNN, and MSNBC’s mixed complete of 5.95 million.
Axios identified, “Whereas Nielsen consists of knowledge in its tally from these streaming the occasion on stay TV, it doesn’t embrace viewership knowledge from those that could have watched this system on smaller gadgets or that tuned in by way of clips on social media.”
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.