7 Million More People Watched THe VP Debate on the Broadcast Networks than the Pres Debate.

[MadBadger]

40 million people watched last night on the broadcast networks, while only 33 million watched the Presidential Debate. With the cable numbers added it, most likely over `10 million more people watched the VP debate.

I got this by subtracting the the number of cable viewers the last time around from the 52 million reported watching.

http://www.zap2it.com/tv/ratings/

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_friday_sept_26_95919.asp

[trudyco]

1. Maybe Friday nights are bad for debates - plus this was it for vp nt

[MadBadger]

2. Fridays are a real bad night for a debate.

[quantass]

3. Thursdays tend to post the 2nd highest ratings for a 7-day week (Sundays are the highest)

if i recall from reading somewhere. Unless i am mixing the two and Thrusdays are the highest

[MadBadger]

4. Funny, Id expect Thursday's to be the highest

[quantass]

5. Yea Same here...I remember my brother and i both guessed thurdays and we found it was Sunday

I think it might be because NBC held a monopoly on the "Must See TV" slogan for Thursdays for so long (e.g. Cosby Show, Seinfeld, Cheers, Frasier, Friends -- those being the highest rated shows at the time) that we tend to think thursdays always is the highest despite NBC being the lowest rated network now (even behind fox)

[Starlight]

6. I suspect many of those people were reality tv fans hoping for another Palin train-wreck.

:applause:

[jenmito]

7. The 1st Pres. debate was on a football-friday night. That's probably why. n/t

[MadBadger]

8. Baseball was on too last night..

[FrenchieCat]

9. I thought 57 million watched the Presidential Debate.

What am I missing? :shrug:

57 Million Watched Presidential Debate: Nielsen Estimate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/27/57-million-watched-presid_n_129890.html

[MadBadger]

10. Those were preliminary numbers. Final Numbers showed 52.4 million watched the debate

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/abc_tops_all_networks_for_debate_viewership_96038.asp

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Friday is a 'get out of the house' night - that means more people

out at restaurants, bars, movies, sporting events, and more people working to serve the people out at those venues.

Thursdays is a 'stay at home and watch TV' night.

Besides, McCain is SOooooo boring.