She was boffo in the ratings.
An estimated 37 million people watched Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for U.S. vice president, address the Republican National Convention in St. Paul Wednesday night, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research.
That beat the 26 million who watched Sen. Hillary Clinton speak on the second night of the Democratic convention in Denver last week, and the 24 million who watched Joe Biden speak on night three in Denver.
Palin’s numbers reflect viewership on six networks–NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC. The Democratic convention was covered by two additional networks that aren’t airing the Republican convention: TV One and BET.
Palin’s audience was just a million viewers shy of Barack Obama’s record convention audience of 38 million on the Democrats’ closing night.
Joanne Ostrow: 303-954-1830 or jostrow@denverpost.com
