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TVDecoder's Brian Stelter crunched the numbers for the DNC and found "the audience for political coverage on cable news has nearly doubled since the last election, demonstrating the gradual shift in audience from broadcast to cable."

CNN has been the big winner in both Total Viewers and the ad-friendly A25-54 demo in prime time, while FNC has come in second each night in Total Viewers. Fox News and MSNBC have gone back and forth for second in the demo: MSNBC won Monday and Wednesday, FNC won Tuesday.

Meanwhile, FoxNews.com has broken records on the Web. Until this week, the site had never broken the 30 million daily page view mark. The site had approximately 31.5 million page views on both Tuesday and Wednesday. Fox News anchors have been participating in the online "Strategy Room" which is up 24 hours a day.

Attitude and an accent — that's what Rome Hartman says he wants to bring to convention coverage.

As EP of BBC World News America, the former CBS' Evening News EP is covering his first convention as an employee of the Beeb.

TVNewser talked to Hartman this morning outside the BBC News workspace about media bias, the upcoming Republican Convention, Katie Couric and more:

The CNN grill has been a hotbed of activity during the Democratic National Convention.

Jamie Foxx and Ashley Judd caused a stir when they stopped by last night, and Spike Lee took up an afternoon seat outside. Even non-CNN tvnewsers frequent the Grill — we've spotted CBS' Jeff Greenfield multiple times.

And last night, around 1amET, CNN commentators Donna Brazile and Roland Martin started up their own dance party, courtesy of the Jackson 5. Click continued to see the action (and to see another CNN commentators reaction)...

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Breaking: After two nights of beating ABC and CBS at 10pmET, CNN also topped NBC as well last night in the hour. Here is the breakdown in Total Viewers and the A25-54 demo.

>Update: In Time Period Data (10-11pm) CNN comes in first. In Program Data (10-11:03pm), which was the length of the NBC & CBS broadcasts, NBC is first.

• Time Period Data
CNN — 5.383M total viewers / 2.318 A25-54
NBC — 5.361M total viewers / 2.400 A25-54
ABC — 3.483M total viewers / 1.304 A25-54
CBS — 3.462M total viewers / 1.458 A25-54
FNC — 2.699M total viewers / 689,000 A25-54
MSNBC — 2.270M total viewers / 1.024 A25-54

• Program Data
NBC — 5.464M total viewers / 2.449 A25-54
CNN — 5.375M total viewers / 2.314 A25-54 (10-11p)
CBS — 3.535M total viewers / 1.489 A25-54
ABC — 3.483M total viewers / 1.304 A25-54 (10-11p)
FNC — 2.572M total viewers / 666,000 A25-54 (10-11p)
MSNBC — 2.270M total viewers / 1.024 A25-54 (10-11p)

Every network, with the exception of CNN, was down in the 10pmET hour last night from Tuesday night. Sen. Joe Biden was the 10pmET speaker last night. Hillary Clinton was the speaker Tuesday night at 10pm.

Also, for the third night in a row, ABC is the only broadcast network to grow its audience from the lead-in. Supernanny averaged 3.24 million; ABC's convention coverage at 10pmET averaged 3.48 million, up 7%.



(CNN touts its Tuesday win with a big poster at the front of the CNN Grill in Denver.)

After four days in Denver, we've noticed almost every TV we encounter is tuned to Convention coverage.

But what cable news channels can be seen where? We'll start a list, and if any other Denver observers or journalists want to chime in, send in an email and we'll add:

• The lobby of the hotel where press get credentials each day: Fox News
• The Blogger Lounge in the Pepsi Center: CNN
• The elevator bank leading to the Blogger Lounge: Fox News
• Our hotel: CNN (the only cable news channel that works in our room)

And then the obvious ones:

• CNN Grill: CNN
• FOX Experience: Fox News
• MSNBC Union Station set: MSNBC

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p*:
FNC	ElectionHQ:	Hume:	Shep.:	O'Reilly:	H&C:	DNC:	Greta:
	341	451	411	624	795	666	316
CNN	Blitzer:	Blitzer:	DNC:	DNC:	DNC:	DNC:	DNC:
	306	659	700	936	1992	2314	1156
MSNBC	Hardball:	Gregory:	DNC:	DNC:	DNC:	DNC:	DNC:
	188	232	393	524	1072	1024	779
HLN	Prime:	Prime:	Beck:	Grace:	Beck:	Grace:	Showbiz:
	66	68	145	468	210	384	154

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For the fifth year, Forbes has issued its 'The World's 100 Most Powerful Women' list. And, as she was last year, Meredith Vieira ranks highest among women in television news, coming in at #61 (she was #55 in 2007).

Right behind is her Today predecessor, Katie Couric (#62), followed by Barbara Walters (#63). Diane Sawyer is #65, with Christiane Amanpour at #91. Last year's rankings had Sawyer at #62, Couric #63, and Amanpour #74. Walters was not ranked in 2007.

Also on the list again is Disney-ABC TV Group President Anne Sweeney, who, at #30, jumped quite a bit from last year's #77 ranking.

At the very top of the list? German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

> More: Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici has thoughts on "Why MSNBC Won't Be the Liberal Fox News"

ABC News producer/reporter Asa Eslocker is out on $500 bail. ERSNews.com got a hold of his mug shot on the trespassing charge from his arrest yesterday by Denver police.

Charlie Gibson writes on the WorldNewser blog how Eslocker posted bail. "We got a kick out of the fact he swiped his corporate credit card to put up the five hundred."

Video of the incident, part of the Money Trail series of reports, shows Eslocker standing, with other people, on a public sidewalk. Gibson writes, "We hope the charges will be dropped."

First on TVNewser: Sources tell TVNewser that over the next two months, NBC News London staffers will move out of their current facility and move in with ITV News, the news division of British broadcaster ITN. We're told the networks will share a new, state of the art digital workspace.

NBC's London move is just the latest in what has been series of moves, both domestically and internationally, as American networks face the rising costs of newsgathering with the growing demand of content on more platforms, including the Web and mobile.

NBC News spokesperson Allison Gollust tells TVNewser some NBC News employees will be re-assigned to ITN, while there have been "some voluntary buyouts" over the last six months. "We don't expect there will be anything additional connected to the move," Gollust says.

While ABC has long partnered with the BBC. NBC has had an arrangement with ITN for more than 10 years. ITN reporters often show up on NBC News broadcasts. NBC News even hired ITV's Ian Williams when it opened a Bangkok bureau in October, 2006.

Says Gollust, "Moves like this enable us to dedicate resources in growth areas — making us stronger and better positioned to face the future."

Chris Hampson remains NBC News London bureau chief.

Johnny Dollar has the audio from the Radio Factor as Fox News analyst Lanny Davis describes nearly being bumped from the TV Factor because Sen. Chuck Schumer didn't want to go on with him.

It took O'Reilly to make the appearance happen. Davis even paraphrased him. "I simply saw you say, 'I make the decisions here. Sit down!'"

And, taking a cue from the Factor, you can tell by Schumer's body language he was thrilled to be on with Davis.

CNN's Matthew Chance spoke with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in the Black Sea city of Sochi, today. In the interview, Putin said his country was not to blame for starting the conflict with Georgia. In fact, Putin accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict.

Chance did a quick live interview with CNN anchor Heidi Collins earlier today. His interview with Putin will air at 3pET on CNNI.

At the end of his NoonET hour, Dan Abrams was on with presidential candidate Ralph Nader. Nader was talking about how little coverage he is getting from the big 3 networks and how he's being kept out of the debates.

Nader: Colbert, Jon Stewart, they know what real news is.

Abrams: Ralph Nader thank you very much for coming in, good to see you.

Nader: Good to see you Adam.

Abrams: Adam? Wait a minute. We gotta stop. I'm Dan.

Nader: Oh, Dan. I'm sorry.

Abrams: I'm Dan. See this is why your candidacy isn't working. It's because, you gotta know the name of the guy who's doing your interview.

> TVWeek has the early ratings from last night. It appears viewers watching the broadcast nets showed less interest in Sen. Joe Biden's VP acceptance speech than they did Hillary Clinton's speech from the night before. All the broadcast networks' numbers fell last night from Tuesday night.

> The CBS Evening News will air a half hour earlier tonight in the nation's largest market. A blog that covers WCBS (yes, there is one) reports that because of the station's coverage of the Jets/Eagles pre-season game, Katie Couric's broadcast will air at 6:00pm.

> And we now know which channel the Democratic nominee prefers. Photographers captured Barack Obama watching Hillary Clinton's speech Tuesday night on C-SPAN.