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More people tuned in to watch McCain's acceptance speech than Obama's.

EDIT: I looked at the article again. It doesn't say that there were more viewers. Just that it got a higher rating. I think that will translate to more viewers, but I believe it is possible to have a higher rating with fewer viewers.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:More people tuned in to watch McCain's acceptance speech than Obama's.

EDIT: I looked at the article again. It doesn't say that there were more viewers. Just that it got a higher rating. I think that will translate to more viewers, but I believe it is possible to have a higher rating with fewer viewers.

Nielsen ratings are stated in terms of rating/share. "Rating" is the percentage of TVs in the US which are tuned to a particular program. "Share" is the percentage of TVs in use at that time which are tuned to a particular program.

This is, of course, an inexact science, since some people start to watch things, and then stop in the middle (notice the big lead-in for McCain's speech on NBC, then the lower overall number later).

Another source, just quoting total viewers said Obama got about 38 million, Palin got about 37.2 million, and I haven't seen that number for McCain yet.

Each of these are, by the way, better numbers than the opening ceremonies of the Olympics or the finale of American Idol. Which I find encouraging.

Then there are people like me, who can't pick what to watch so I have the DVR recording 2 programs while I'm watching a third. So someone like me would either skew it (if it's counting all 3) or some of the stuff wouldn't be counted at all.

I wish I had been watching that instead of the Gamecocks embarrassing loss to Vanderbilt