NBC on winning streak

Viewership for Fox News Channel’s coverage of the Republican National Convention helped it draw more viewers overall than all the broadcast networks except NBC.

Fox News’ convention coverage was topped by the final prime-time hour of Thursday’s session, which featured presidential nominee Donald Trump’s acceptance speech and averaged 9.72 million viewers, the third most-watched program between July 18 and Sunday, according to live-plus-same-day figures released by Nielsen Tuesday.

Fox News averaged 4.11 million viewers for its primetime programming for the week, finishing first among cable networks for the seventh consecutive week. CNN was second, averaging 2.4 million.

NBC combined the mostwatched coverage among the broadcast networks for each of the four nights of the convention and a 1-2 finish by the week’s two original “America’s Got Talent” episodes to be the mostwatched network for the fourth consecutive week, averaging 5.08 million viewers.

NBC’s four-week winning streak is its longest since its seven-week streak from the weeks of April 29-June 10, 2002, outside of when it aired the Olympics.

CBS was second among the broadcast networks, averaging 4.03 million viewers, followed by ABC, which averaged 3.81 million. Fox averaged 2.23 million viewers to finish fourth for the 15th consecutive week and sixth overall. are the combined rankings for national prime-time network and cable television last week (July 18-24), as compiled by Nielsen. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish during its scheduled telecast or on a playback device the same day. Nielsen estimates there are 289 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions.