As has been noted before, former president Bill Clinton's speech at the DNC was "masterful."
How many people watched it beyond the 20,000 or so in Charlotte's Time Warner Cable arena may be another issue. NBC did not carry the former president's speech. Instead it opted for an NFL game featuring the Giants and the Cowboys.
The winner is . . . the NFL.
Overnight ratings for the evening show that the NFL garnered an average of 21 million viewers for the evening. This included a large number of the 18-49 age group so valued by advertisers and politicians. The speech on ABC and CBS had fewer than 4 million viewers in the 10-11 pm time slight with a limited number of 18-49 year olds.
The report in TV By the Numbers does not include numbers for viewers of the cable news outlets for the evening.
It is a good thing the NFL agreed to move the game from Thursday to Wednesday. There are, however, lots of distractions for sports fans on ESPN and other regional sports networks.
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