The 2020 Democratic National Convention struggled all week to live up to the ratings of their 2016 convention.
On Thursday, the final night, Joe Biden’s speech got the highest ratings of the week, but he still came up short, compared to Hillary Clinton’s speech in 2016.
This is not a good sign for Old Joe.
The Hill reports:
Biden draws highest TV ratings of Democratic convention, but down from 2016
Joe Biden’s speech Thursday night accepting the Democratic presidential nomination was the highest-rated event of the week for the Democratic National Convention, while drawing a smaller audience than Hillary Clinton’s speech at the convention in 2016, according to early estimates from Nielsen Media Research.
Biden’s speech was watched by 21.8 million people on TV, according to initial figures from Nielsen, beating out the early numbers for other major speeches at the convention earlier in the week. The figure, which does not include online streaming of the speech, is expected to grow when additional networks are added…
Still, the initial numbers mark a 21 percent drop from Clinton’s speech at the convention in 2016, when she accepted the Democratic nomination that year. It is also more than 38 percent lower than President Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican convention four years ago, which drew 34.9 million viewers.
Joe Concha, the media reporter for The Hill, broke down the numbers on Twitter:
Preliminary #s show relatively poor viewership for Biden's acceptance speech last night, with 21.8M tuning in.
Context:
– Off 21% from Hillary's 2016 acceptance speech
– Off 38.5% from Trump's 2016 RNC speech (34.9M)Again, we're in a pandemic with more people at home…
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) August 21, 2020
And before you cite cord-cutting, please know that the cable news networks are all enjoying their highest-rated years on record.
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) August 21, 2020
And… before you throw the 2016 streaming numbers are different than 2020c where it’s more prevalent, Trump’s 2020 State of the Union — with all of those streaming options — delivered more than 37 million viewers on the same six networks.
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) August 21, 2020
The Republican National Convention is next week. It’ll be fun to compare the numbers.
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