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For comparison, 30 million watched the final night of the RNC last week in the preliminary ratings. | Getty TV ratings: 28 million watch final night of DNC

An average of approximately 30 million viewers watched Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention Thursday evening, according to preliminary ratings data from Nielsen.

For comparison, 32 million watched the final night of the RNC last week, and 35.7 million watched the final night of the DNC back in 2012.

From 10-roughly 11:45 p.m., when the broadcast networks and cable news channels were covering the DNC, CNN averaged 7.5 million viewers, MSNBC averaged 5.3 million viewers, NBC 4.5 million viewers, ABC 3.8 million viewers, CBS 3.6 million viewers and Fox News 3.0 million viewers,

From 8-11 p.m., when cable news was wall to wall with coverage, CNN averaged 5.7 million viewers, MSNBC 4.2 million, and Fox News 3.1 million.

The numbers do not include people watching on some other channels, like PBS, C-SPAN or Univision, nor do they include those that may have streamed the event online. Final numbers will likely be a little bit higher, and will come in later this afternoon.