Comments on: 33.5 Million Viewers Watched Obama’s Infomercial

By: Where Did the Poor Go? « Three Steps Forward

Where Did the Poor Go? « Three Steps Forward — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:05:05 +0000

[...] 30, 2008 by Ben Another of Nielsen’s Blogs, Nielsen Wire, shows that Obama’s “infomercial” had a huge impact on the Primetime TV crowd [...]

By: NielsenWire

NielsenWire — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:23:34 +0000

Greg-

Right, ABC did not run Sen. Obama’s infomercial Wednesday night — instead “Pushing Daisies” aired from 8pm to 9pm.

That show just missed making our ranking of the top 10 shows for Wednesday night (it placed 12th out of 34 telecasts) — so you won’t find it on the our daily overnight ratings post: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/media_entertainment/primetime-broadcast-ratings-october-29-2008/.

However, we can confirm that “Pushing Daisies” drew almost 6.7 million viewers Wednesday night.

-Nielsen Wire

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:10:45 +0000

O.K. Lets see. He was on ALL the major net works and on selected stations. IE: Hispanic speaking stations. Now, most of these stations had programing people were waiting for, and programs people had TiVo’ed. It was also World Series night… So, of course he had over 33 million viewers. I was on another channel, and watching a recorded program. I caught it the next day.

I would have to say the Nealson ratings are not accurate for those waiting to see only him. Nice try.

By: Jakob

Jakob — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:59:02 +0000

I’m doing a paper on Barack Obama and John mccain at school and this helped.

By: Missouri Liberal » American Watches Obama

Missouri Liberal » American Watches Obama — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:57:41 +0000

[...] ad viewed by more than 20% of the country is not too shabby. That’s around 33.5 million viewers spread across CBS, Fox, NBC, MSNBC, BET, TVOne, and Univision. The real loser last night was ABC, [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:24:25 +0000

When do we get to find out how Pushing Daisies did?

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:28:28 +0000

I made a point of not watching the infomercial. But I had already voted for Obama anyway.

By: HubDub was wrong on the number of viewers for the Barack Obama infomercial. | Midas Oracle .COM

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:55:28 +0000

[...] Sounds like it’s 33.5 million, according to Nielsen. [...]

By: Real Clear Politics - News - Elections 2008 - Opinion - Commentary - TIME

Real Clear Politics - News - Elections 2008 - Opinion - Commentary - TIME — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:59:25 +0000

[...] Nielsen reports that 33.5 million people watched Obama’s ad across seven stations between 8 and 8:30 ET last night. [...]