Network Coverage

Hours and minutes devoted to convention events:

*--*

MON TUE WED Convention Length 7:49 3:13 3:48 C-SPAN 7:49 3:13 3:48 CNN 2:18 1:31 0.59 PBS 1:54 1:57 1:42 FOXNEWS 1:17 1:20 1:30 MSNBC 1:02 0:46 1:07 ABC 0:36 0:25 0.41 CBS 0:16 0:19 0.41 NBC 0:00 0:16 0.46

*--*

Source: C-SPAN

Prime-Time Viewing

Estimates from Nielsen Media Research:

*--*

Network Tuesday viewers ABC 4.42 million NBC 5.37 million CBS 5.57 million CNN 1.43 million FOXNEWS 742,000 MSNBC 390,000

*--*

*

Source: CNN

Other prime-time programs Tuesday:

Show: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (ABC)

Tuesday viewers: 21.43 million

Show: Frasier (NBC)

Tuesday viewers: 8.37 million

Show: Judging Amy (CBS)

Tuesday viewers: 21.43 million

Show: Family Guy (Fox)

Tuesday viewers: 6.15 million

Show: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (WB)

Tuesday viewers: 2.66 million

Show: I Dare You! (UPN)

Tuesday viewers: 2.57 million

*

* ABC and NBC coverage ran from 7-8 p.m. PDT respectively. CBS aired 60 Minutes II, which contained some convention coverage.

All three cable networks are full prime time.

Source: Nielsen Media Research

Motherly Love

“I hope that I am the first person to welcome you to Philadelphia, the city of motherly love,” a proud Barbara Bush told the delegates Tuesday at the Republican convention. She then introduced “a great man that we love very much--the next president of the United States, George W. Bush.”

She then looked up at the giant screen where an image of her son was projected. Speaking to the delegates while traveling to Philadelphia, he got a big laugh by recalling how someone once told him: “George W., you may have your daddy’s eyes, but you have your mother’s mouth.”

Former First Lady Barbara Bush addresses convention delegates Tuesday night.

*

Compiled by MALOY MOORE / Los Angeles Times