By GottaLaff
Nielsen just released its ratings for Friday's presidential debate.
- The overall number of people who watched was surprisingly small (52.4 million) given the high numbers for the GOP and Democratic conventions. This was well below the 62.5 million who watched the first Bush/Kerry debate four years ago. This may be because Friday is the traditionally the second-lowest night of the week for watching television.
- African American viewers continue to be highly engaged in the campaign. They had a rating of 19.5 vs. a rating of 18.1 for the entire population.
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The Thursday debate will be higher... It's a huge TV night, and it's Palin/Biden.
Seems like the economy and the bailout will still be relevant topics on Thursday and such as.
Yep, lol! They're off DIraq now and such as.
Jane, things such as that will be such fun to watch too!
but for every crowd in a bar, was that counted as one viewer?
once again, I watched pbs, so nielsen doesn't even count folks like me.
They still don't count pbs, cspan or tivos.
You are not counted if you don't own a "Nielsen box" or some kind of gizmo that connects you to them.
Random viewing doesn't count, only viewers who have been told they are Nielsen raters.
I was contacted once, so I understand how this works, to some extent.
If you're one of a crowd at a bar, or anywhere else, you don't count unless it's YOUR TV set and YOU, the Nielsen repsonder, who are connected directly to Nielsen.
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