Clinton had more than million more viewers on PBS

[gabeana]

than Trump "PBS said it averaged 3.98 million viewers during the 10 p.m. hour on Thursday, when Clinton's speech began, and 2.75 million viewers during the same hour last week."
"Nielsen's total for Clinton's speech, 29.8 million, does not include the noncommercial networks C-SPAN and PBS.
C-SPAN is not rated."
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/29/media/democratic-convention-night-four-ratings/index.html

I know I watched it on cspan ad encouraged all my friends to do the same

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Most people I know watched it on C-SPAN-- no talking heads...

telling us what we just saw during the next one we don't see.

[lapucelle]

3. I watched the CSPAN broadcasts of preconvention committee meetings

(like the platform committee), and it was so good that I kept them on for the whole convention. They covered the stories inside and outside during the mornings and afternoons with balanced commentary and call-ins and the convention itself gavel to gavel.

The two things that bothered me the most about cable coverage was the constant concern trolling about every little thing, and the remixing of protest sounds into the master sound feed that made the heckling sound louder than it actually was in the hall. MSNBC's "reason" for doing it was that people wanted to hear what the hecklers were chanting. No, people wanted to hear the convention as it was actually happening, not a media manipulation and distortion of a story.

The last straw for me were Rachel's faux-feminist complaints about Bill Clinton's speech. Rachel was being all clever "look how counter intuitive I am" and playing to the cool kids who think it's hip to SMH at throwback Bill.

Sorry dear. Bill's job that night was to deliver a personal, family speech, not a political one, and as an ex-president married to the candidate, he had to walk a very fine line. A husband of 40 years is allowed to wax nostalgic about how and why he fell in love. The beginning of of the speech was not about HIM (as Rachel insisted), but about THEM, not as a power couple, but just a regular couple.

Can you imagine the spin that we would be hearing had Bill Clinton made a political speech? "Look, even her husband has nothing personal to say about Hillary. Even her husband can't humanize Hillary."

No Rachel, the speech wasn't weird and outrageous; your reaction was.

[sofa king]

2. Also Twitch.tv

Which was surely the most hilarious way to watch it, with viewers commenting in real-time faster than I could read. While it peaked at only 31000-35000 viewers worldwide, it appears to have been the medium of choice for rooms full of younger voters nationwide as well as interested viewers around the world--and an army of paid spammers and hateful Russian chat-bots.

This is not a significant figure when one is discussing millions of Americans. I note it because live streaming will surely catch up to and eventually overtake television viewers someday sooner rather than later, and also because it was a wonderful way to watch it without interference from commercial interruption or editorial choices (ahem, Fox News running a Benghazi smear over Khazir Khan's speech).

And, it was amusing to see the army of racists reflexively boil over whenever guns, minorities, LGBT rights, women, immigration, and religion were mentioned. It was so easy and fun to antagonize them and twist them into knots with a single line of well-crafted sarcasm. I will never watch another convention on television again.

[riversedge]

4. I had cspan on from about 6 pm -the Carole King performance--till after Hillary speech.

[mucifer]

5. PBS coverage was pretty much pro Clinton in my opinion

Even David Brooks commented a lot on how good the convention went.

[DemonGoddess]

6. I watched on C-Span

ten minutes of a network and I was ready to bash my head into a wall, so I switched to a channel to where I could actually watch the convention, and hear the speakers.

[BlueMTexpat]

7. As with many here, I watched

C-Span, although I had to replay the late speeches the next day because of the six-hour time difference.

It was so nice just to see what was actually happening, instead of having pundits blather on.

[niyad]

8. watching on c-span was the only way to stay sane. even the pbs commentators made me nuts.

[niyad]

9. so, with every indication that the dnc had more viewers than the rnc, why are there so many headline

this morning saying the opposite?