That's right. I watched the RNC on youtube.
https://pjmedia.com/election/matt-margolis/2020/08/29/sorry-libs-the-gop-convention-had-better-viewership-than-the-democrat-convention-n863459
I didn't watch either convention, I just watched clips on Youtube. I don't have cable but I didn't want to help the ratings of NBC, CBS, or ABC. They all suck equally.
shareThe conventions were both on YouTube in full. You could select the Fox News feed if you didn’t want to select the other networks.
sharePjmedia?
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I didn't watch either but Nielsen shows the DNC had more viewers:
https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/here-are-final-ratings-for-the-2020-dnc-and-the-2020-rnc/454076/
Nielsen ratings are what counts.
shareNielsen ratings don't take into account online viewers. If you only want to count TV viewership and discount all the people that watched it on youtube, that's fine. I would think it is more important to find out how many people watched in its entirety, but that's just me.
shareI watched it on YouTube too because I wanted to see it in its entirety.
I think both the RNC and DNC should have been aired in their entirety on all major networks instead of airing AGT, for example.
Instead it was only an hour, very choppy with pundits interjection that no one cares to hear. They can talk about it the next day.
But I know why they did not want to air either in their entirety. It is very obvious.
CNN, MSNBC, and FOX broadcast it in it's entirety.
shareWell I don't know about CNN or MSNBC but Fox absolutely did NOT show it in its entirety. Tucker would air as normal and they did cut into his show half way through for the whole beginning of the RNC except the first night (they were only "monitoring" the DNC until the last hour or so as Tucker and Hannity aired in their entirety, if I'm not mistaken). Within 10 or 15 minutes, Hannity would bust in with guests. That's when I would flip it to YouTube because I didn't care what Hannity had to say. I wanted to see the conventions.
For the most part, Fox aired the RNC though.
A few times I checked ABC for the 10pm ET hour and they did not show everybody in the hour or so they were on. Chris Christie, Rahm Emanuel, George...they were yapping.
I heard CNN did not show the parents of Kayla Mueller.
Half way through Carlson's show would be 8:30 - which is when the RNC officially began. No ?
That's when it began on MSNBC, as well - and they began coverage at 8 pm, just to be sure they aired everything (in case it began sooner, as they said).