Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
Of course, the DNC is stupid enough to put it's sole rockstar on TV at the same time as the first NFL game of the season. I caught the speech on youtube, who is going to pick DNC speeches over Cowboys v Giants?
Apparently a lot of people. I do not claim to understand this, but then, I gave up on broadcast TV entirely, so your world is a mystery to me.

Democratic Convention Beats Football In Ratings

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. [...]

The entire football game was seen by an average of 23.9 million people on NBC, Nielsen said. Last year's opening game was seen by 27.1 million, and 2010's game had a record 27.5 million. The opening game generally features the Super Bowl champion from the year before.