by Mark Silva
DENVER - Bill Clinton, the former president, drew 24 million television viewers in his address at the Democratic National Convention.
Hillary Clinton, the former first lady and erstwhile candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, outdrew him - with 26 million viewers.
Viewership for the convention during the first three days was highest on Tuesday, the night that Sen. Clinton took the stage - 20 million households tuned in.
Indeed, the senator from New York outdrew Sen. Joe Biden, the Democrat from Delaware nominated for vice president (with 24 million TV viewers) and Michelle Obama, the wife of Democratic nominee Barack Obama (with 22.3 million viewers.)
These are among the findings of the Nielsen ratings of the convention closing tonight in Denver.
Older viewers have dominated the convention's TV audience - people 55 and older. Nearly one in five Americans 55 and older - about 12.5 million 55-and-uppers - tuned in to the convention coverage Wednesday, according to Nielsen.
Seventeen million households tuned in to coverage of the convention on the broadcast and cable news networks - ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, BET and TV One - according to Nielsen. Twenty million tuned in the second night, and 18.5 million the third night.
This is higher than the highest numbers of households tuning in to 2004 Democratic convention coverage on the first and third nights - 18 million households on those nights. For more, see the Nielsen report: Nielsen ratings.pdf
(Photo of Hillary Clinton after calling off the roll call on the convention floor and calling for Barack Obama's nomination by acclamation. Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)
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