Day three of the Republican Convention was the day that America got to meet Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate chosen by John McCain and 37 million people did so.
Reported by TV Week, and according to Nielsen Media Research, 37 million people tuned in to their televisions sets, via viewers on NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC.
This puts the Republican vice presidential candidate's speech one million viewers shy of the Democratic Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, for his party's acceptance speech.
The number of viewers that tuned into watch Governor Palin and GOP Veep choice, topped the number of viewers that tuned in for the Democratic vice presidential choice, Joe Biden, by 13 million and topped the speech given by Hillary Clinton by 11 million.
Other reports such as Market Watch list the number at 37.2 million, showing a 73 percent jump in numbers from day two of the Republican Convention to day three.
[Update] MSNBC reports that the number was over 40 million, adding in PBS, with 4 million viewers.
That audience rivaled the one for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama last week. Nielsen Media Research estimated 37.2 million people watched Palin on either ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel or MSNBC. PBS estimated it had four million viewers for the speech.
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