Barack Obama and Kamala Harris attracted the convention’s biggest TV audience yet.
MSNBC has dominated ratings for this year’s Democratic National Convention, and its streak continued on Wednesday as it attracted 6.3 million viewers for a starry night that featured speeches by Senator Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama.
The evening marked the biggest live TV audience yet for the convention, with about 22.8 million Americans watching over all from 10 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., according to Nielsen.
MSNBC, which has carried the broadcast mostly unfiltered — with no interruptions for real-time analysis or commentary — said it recorded its highest-rated hour of convention coverage since the network began in 1996.
Television viewership Wednesday was down only slightly from the 24.4 million who watched the equivalent night in 2016. Earlier in the week viewership for the virtual convention had fallen by roughly a quarter. CNN had the biggest audience among younger viewers between ages 25 to 54.

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