Well, Trump should not have droned on for an hour and a half. Lucky I live on the West coast and WFH so don’t have to get up super early so I was able to finish it. Can’t imagine what it’s like for people in eastern time zone who do have to wake up early.
I don’t know doesn’t seem like that much more. The numbers for both conventions seem to be highher than what you put here, pretty close:
RNC Night 4 amassed 23.8 million total viewers, with Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Telemundo, Univision, PBS, CNN, CNNe, MSNBC, Newsmax and Newsy now all accounted for (in addition to the coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC). That’s up 38 percent from the night prior to mark the Republican convention’s largest audience.
Fueling the Night 4 surge for the RNC was viewership among Adults 18-34, which more than doubled (to 1.66 million) from Night 3. Meanwhile, the 35-54 crowd grew 48 percent, while viewership among those 55-plus increased by 29 percent.
Demos just a bit more, from the same article:
That said, across the 13 aforementioned cable and broadcast channels, the RNC Night 4 audience fell just shy of the DNC’s own closing night (which drew 24.6 million). Similarly, Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s Night 4 nomination acceptance speech outdrew President Donald Trump’s, 23.6 million viewers to 21.6 million.
pretty close. Biden a tad more, not much more. Not sure why he didn’t get started til after 10:30 when he knew it was going to go long.
The wild part about that speech is that it was 75 minutes long and contained like maybe three or four minutes of ad libs. Someone thought it was a good idea to make a speech that long. Well, like twelve people did from the way it sounded.