DNC’s Night One Audience Was 21% Higher Than RNC’s

The Independent reports:

The first night of the ongoing Democratic National Convention in Chicago had signficantly better ratings than the opening of the Republican National Convention last month, according to overnight data.

The DNC had 11.4 percent of sampled households watching in 44 major metro areas across seven networks on Monday, compared with the RNC’s 9.4 percent rating, a difference of over 20 percent, according to TV analyst Michael Mulvihill, president of insights and analytics at FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, and Tubi.

The initial, encouraging signs for the DNC come as Donald Trump is reportedly concerned Kamala Harris’s Thursday speech to close out the convention will outshine Trump’s RNC send-off.

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About 20 million people tuned into the DNC coverage on TV between 10pm and 12:30am yesterday. (This figure is the per-minute viewership average; a greater number watched at some point during the prime coverage.) pic.twitter.com/dMM9nsaLta

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 20, 2024

Night one of the Democratic National Convention outperformed its Republican counterpart in viewership, drawing 11.4 million viewers, a significant 21% increase over the 9.4 million who tuned in for the opening night of the Republican National Convention https://t.co/0KPBcUZnZV

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 20, 2024