Day 1 from Charlotte

 

 

 

 

The Stephanie Miller show joined by voice diety Jim Ward 

and FOX radio's Alan Colmes.

The first day of the Democratic National Convention has opened in Charlotte NC, including more than 100 talk show hosts, along with news organizations who will broadcast over the next 3 days.

  Progressive hosts broadcasting from Radio Row include The Stephanie Miller Show, Thom Hartmann and Ed Shultz along with most of broadcast TV and the blogsophere.

We think FOX news may be there too, since they confuse the right to protect the President with the right to vote and the GOP meme of 'voter ID'.

 

 

UPDATE

MSNBC celebrated a major milestone on Wednesday when it topped its rivals in primetime convention ratings for the first time in its 16-year history.

From the HuffPo:

TVNewser was the first to report the news. An MSNBC spokesperson confirmed that it was the network's first-ever convention victory, and the first time that it beat its rivals head-to-head while all three were covering the same political event.

MSNBC's victory came on the first night of the Democratic convention in Charlotte. The network was first in both total viewers (4.107 million) and in the coveted 18-49 demo (1.432 million.) CNN came in second, with 3.88 million and 1.368 million in both categories. Fox News trailed far behind, drawing just 2.398 million total viewers and 550,000 in the demo -- a far cry from its ratings on the first night of the Republican convention, when it drew a whopping 6.87 million viewers. MSNBC was also the only channel to grow its ratings from 2008. All of the other networks saw their ratings drop sharply.

NBC was the overall victor for the night, drawing 5.02 million viewers.

Comments

[BlackRhino]

Here’s a review of Obama’s speech from multiple news outlets.

Even Fox News begrudgingly called the speech “masterful”

[WILD BILL]

I predict Obama will get the nomination (yawn) and ratings will be as low as The Republicon hootenannie....an infomercial for the infomercial makers (yawn)....

[BlackRhino]

Well, there’s always the Cowboys vs the Giants.

[T-S]

Maybe it's time for bed, Bill. The adults will stay up and watch the main event.

[BlackRhino]

Guess what gang, your favorite BlackRhino has been nominated to Mitt’s Black Leadership Council. I don’t think he realizes those emails I’ve been sending him with the signature “BlackRhino” is just a nom de guerre. But oh well, keep your fingers crossed. I’m guessing he has a detailed vetting process involving my stance on his policies and this is not a veiled attempt at offering up “I have black friends” ‘see look at my email list’.

[Gentlemen Rouge]

Do you think the Blah people will be invited?

[sparky]

wow..I thought I was cool to get a phone call from Callista Gingrich telling me that God needs to be back in all the schools...had it not been a robo call, I would have asked her what she thought God might think of her having that affair with a married man!

Congrats BR

[Todd]

The baggers, freepers and wingers are going to lose their collective minds when they hear about Millard’s move. Pandering to the Blah’s for votes, wow.

[T-S]

Clinton and Obama. What a duo rhetorically. Amazing.

[Coiler]

NEW YORK — The second night of the Democratic National Convention beat the Republicans in television ratings and, perhaps more impressively, beat pro football.

An estimated 25.1 million people watched the convention between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Wednesday, when former President Bill Clinton delivered an impassioned nomination speech for President Barack Obama, the Nielsen ratings company said.

During that hour, just over 20 million people were watching the second half of the Dallas Cowboys' season-opening victory over the New York Giants. Faced with competition from Clinton, ratings for football's first game were down from the past two years.