Overnight Ratings For Debate

The television ratings for president trump s acceptance speech at the republican national convention are in and he probably won t like them.

Overnight ratings for debate. The vice presidential debate between mike pence and kamala harris was a much bigger audience draw than the vp debate in 2016 according to nielsen ratings. For the first time ever we ve compiled historical ratings for every presidential and vice presidential debate in the interactive charts below enabling you to spot trends and trend breaking events. The plan for the second presidential debate fell apart. Nielsen will release ratings for each of the four events as they are available.

Democrats haven t duplicated that same ratings magic this time around. The biggest audience was 18 million for the opening debate held in miami last summer and viewership has dropped steadily. Millions of people will watch the democratic presidential primary debates tuesday and wednesday but it ll be a shock if ratings for the two night event come anywhere close to the massive. If you re wondering whether interest in the democratic primary process has cooled off check the nielsen ratings and stop wondering.

In overnight numbers abc distanced its coverage from the other four broadcast networks to take the top spot with a 1 9 rating and 8 3 million viewers followed by nbc 1 3 rating 5 6 million. The ratings trump often crows about are overnight metered market ratings or overnights which represent data collected by nielsen. According to overnight data from nielsen trump s primetime speech on thursday night drew a rating of 14 1 which means 14 1 percent of homes in more than 50 major markets around the country tuned in.