GOP Convention Ratings Down Slightly

“The closing night of the Republican National Convention drew the gathering’s biggest TV audience of the week, one larger than the closing night of the RNC four years ago. It wasn’t quite large enough, however, to push the convention as a whole past 2020’s numbers,” the Hollywood Reporter reports.

“Thursday’s coverage of the convention, running from 10 p.m. to about 12:15 a.m. ET, averaged 25.38 million viewers across 14 outlets, according to Nielsen figures. Most of that time was devoted to Donald Trump’s speech accepting the party’s nomination for president for the third consecutive election. That was up about 7 percent from the final night of the 2020 convention (23.81 million viewers across 13 channels). Nielsen says the audience peaked between 10:45 and 11 p.m. ET, early in Trump’s speech, with 28.4 million viewers.”