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SEPTEMBER 04, 2008

Fox News says nearly one-quarter of the 37-million viewers for Palin speech watched it on their channel

Palinspeech2_2  The TV viewership numbers for Sarah Palin's speech at Wednesday's GOP convention were already impressive -- 37-million people tuned in for at least some of the speech, just 1-million shy of the record set by Barack Obama the week before.

But Fox News now says nearly one-quarter of those viewers saw the speech on their news channel, scoring viewership for the 10 p.m. hour ahead of networks NBC, CBS and ABC. Also, buried in the data, CNN scored viewership ahead of two networks -- ABC and CBS.

Fox also says it's the highest-rated convention telecast in cable news history; at Fox, only George Bush's address on the eve of the Iraq invasion and a Bush/Kerry debate in 2004 scored better ratings.

Here are the numbers, according to the good people at Fox News:Sarahpalinhorozontal

10-11:15 p.m. -– total viewers:

Fox News – 9.2 million

NBC – 7.7 million

CNN – 6.2 million

ABC – 5.9 million

CBS – 4.6 million

MSNBC – 3.4 million

*PBS - 3.2 million

(* Viewership figure provided by PBS)

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