Wednesday TV Ratings: ‘Big Brother’ Beats Out 2020 DNC Night 3

Jim Halterman
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Kamala Harris DNC 2020
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On Wednesday, August 19, Kamala Harris accepted her nomination for Vice President of the United States on Night 3 of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. That came with speeches from Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren all touting presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his choice for his second-in-command.

But, when looking at the viewership for Wednesday’s primetime broadcast television, it was those crafty houseguests participating in Season 22 of Big Brother: All Stars that took the lead for the night in the 18-49 demo with a strong 1.0 rating.

In terms of total viewers, NBC’s live results on America’s Got Talent grabbed the top spot for the night with 5.1 million viewers with Big Brother coming in a distant second with 3.9 million viewers. As for the DNC broadcasts on all three broadcast networks, NBC came out on top with 2.1 million viewers with ABC in second position with 1.9 million and CBS with 1.8 million.

Time Show Adults 18-49 rating Total Viewers (millions)
8 p.m. Big Brother (CBS) 1.0 3.9
America’s Got Talent (NBC) 0.6 5.1
United We Fall  (ABC) 0.5 3.0
MasterChef – R (Fox) 0.3 1.3
The 100   (CW) 0.1 556,000
8:30 p.m. The Goldbergs – R  (ABC) 0.3 1.8
9:00 p.m. Tough As Nails (CBS) 0.4 2.6
Ellen’s Game of Games – R (NBC) 0.4 2.4
MasterChef – R (Fox) 0.4 1.5
The Conners – R (ABC) 0.3 1.9
Coroner  (CW) 0.1 606,000
9:30 p.m. American Housewife – R (ABC) 0.3 1.6
10 p.m. Democratic National Convention  (NBC) 0.4 2.1
Democratic National Convention  (ABC) 0.3 1.9
Democratic National Convention  (CBS) 0.3 1.8
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    RobR

    How did Big Brother with 3.9 million viewers (1.0 in the demo) "beat out" the network coverage of the DNC? The DNC had a combined 5.8 million network viewers and a combined 1.0 in the demo---not to mention the viewers on cable TV for the DNC. Seems like the headline ignores that the DNC was seen on all three broadcast networks at the same time.

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      wolverine1070

      When they refer to winning in this column, they are referring to the demo, which it took three networks to match. The show also, by a wide margin, beat any one of the individual networks. Any way you cut it, the ratings were seriously down for the DNC this year.

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        RobR

        Substantially more folks watched the DNC, available on three broadcast networks and several cable networks, than watched Big Brother--both in total audience and in the demographic of age 18-49. But I have no idea what the DNC audience was in 2016 but I am sure it was substantially higher, given the historic first nomination of a woman for president.

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    GoldLeaf

    I loved Sen. Harris' speech!

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      RedTurtle

      So did I and I also loved Joe Biden's speech the next night!

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