DNC Night 4 Draws 26.2 Million Viewers, Up Slightly From RNC Finale
More than 26 million viewers tuned in to watch Vice President Kamala Harris accept her party’s historic nomination for President of the United States, at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night.
Night 4 of the DNC was broadcast live from Chicago from approximately 9 pm to 11:30 pm ET, and carried on 15 networks monitored by Nielsen (with “varied” coverage on each).
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The total audience of 26.2 million marks a 7% uptick from Night 4 of the 2020 DNC (where California governor Gavin Newsom, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, U.S Senator Cory Booker and Hunter Biden were among those who spoke on behalf of future POTUS Joe Biden), but a 12% decline from 2016 (when Colorado governor John Hickenlooper, U.S. Representative Ted Lieu, Chelsea Clinton and others vouched for former FLOTUS and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton).
Night 4 of the DNC delivered only a 3% larger audience than the conclusion of this year’s Republican National Convention, in which former President Donald Trump accepted his party’s re-nomination in front of a TV audience of 25.3 million.
The four-day DNC closed with a speech by Harris as she formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination; the audience during that 40-minute stretch averaged 28.9 million viewers — compared to 28.4 mil for Trump’s own acceptance speech.
All told, the DNC averaged 21.8 million viewers this week, versus the four-night RNC’s 19.1 million.
Thursday night’s DNC featured speeches by former Rep. Gabby Giffords, Sen. Mark Kelly and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, among man others, plus a national anthem sung by The Chicks and a performance by Pink and her daughter Willow — but no Beyonce.
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