The TV Zone

Here are your ratings from last night's DNC - lifted straight from Drudge and Nielsen.

My quickie analysis: Not as bad as they look. About 22 million people watched at ten, per my rough eyeball estimate, and that seems like a reasonable number. 'Nother way to look at this: About the same number of people who watch a highly promoted episode of "CSI" watched Michelle O last night. I'm sure she'll take that. Also, don't read anything into the CNN win over Fox here - CNN always beats Fox during the Democratic convention; the order will reverse during the RNC. I imagine MS would have liked to have had a slightly better showing, but this one isn't bad either.

Here are the Nielsen numbers which give the demographic breakdown. What's remarkable here? The teen numbers!

Day 1-Aug 25, 2008

Number of All Households
17,111,710

Persons 2+
22,296,685

Persons 12-17
417,496

Persons 18-34
3,156,100

Persons 18-49
7,678,484

Persons 55+
10,079,978

African American
3,282,817

Hispanic
869,029

White
12,751,698

Source: The Nielsen Company

And here are the overall network numbers:

NBC 4.71 MILLION
CNN 4.24 MILLION
ABC 4.17 MILLION
CBS 3.46 MILLION
FOXNEWS 2.72 MILLION
MSNBC 2.09 MILLION

8-11PM ET

CNN 3,700,000
FOXNEWS 3,018,000
MSNBC 2,147,000