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Donald Trump Snags 45.6M For 1st State Of The Union; Behind Obama, W & Bubba – Update
by Dominic Patten
January 31, 2018 1:39pm
UPDATED, 1:39 PM: As the never-ending political whiplash continues in Washington, D.C. and the hangover kicks in from last night’s State of the Union, the final numbers are here for Donald Trump’s speech to Congress. Across a dozen outlets and not counting streaming, 45.6 million tuned in for the President’s first official SOTU in primetime Tuesday from 9-10 PM ET.
As anticipated as the speech was in punditry circles, Trump’s 80-minute stint on the teleprompter was expectedly down in total viewers, though not by much, from remarks he gave to members of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs and more on February 28, 2017. Following the usual Presidential trajectory of lessening viewer interest over time, last night’s speech declined 5% from the 48 million that watched last year’s non-SOTU address overall ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Univision, PBS, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, FBN and NBC Universo.
In the interest of comparison, Tuesday’s speech was also shown on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Univision, PBS, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, FBN, NBC Universo and Estrella. The Rupert Murdoch-run Fox News was the single most-watched outlet with an audience of 11.5 million.
Comparison may actually be where the rub gets a bit raw for Trump, especially in terms of his immediate predecessors. Barack Obama had just more than 48 million total viewers for his first SOTU in 2010 on 11 outlets, and nearly 52 million watched George W. Bush’s post-9/11 first SOTU in 2002 on eight outlets. Adding to the con column, Trump did not beat the 45.8 million who tuned in for Bill Clinton’s first SOTU on ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN in 1994.
Which means Trump’s initial SOTU, the third longest in history, is now also the least watched address in nearly a quarter of a century.
Which is not how White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will characterize things in the coming days, you can be sure. However, POTUS did achieve his supposedly stated goal of topping the Grammys. On CBS on January 28, the three-hour Trump-bashing shindig of music’s biggest night hit a nearly 10-year low with 19.81 million viewers.
Donald Trump Snags 45.6M For 1st State Of The Union; Behind Obama, W & Bubba – Update
by Dominic Patten
January 31, 2018 1:39pm
UPDATED, 1:39 PM: As the never-ending political whiplash continues in Washington, D.C. and the hangover kicks in from last night’s State of the Union, the final numbers are here for Donald Trump’s speech to Congress. Across a dozen outlets and not counting streaming, 45.6 million tuned in for the President’s first official SOTU in primetime Tuesday from 9-10 PM ET.
As anticipated as the speech was in punditry circles, Trump’s 80-minute stint on the teleprompter was expectedly down in total viewers, though not by much, from remarks he gave to members of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs and more on February 28, 2017. Following the usual Presidential trajectory of lessening viewer interest over time, last night’s speech declined 5% from the 48 million that watched last year’s non-SOTU address overall ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Univision, PBS, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, FBN and NBC Universo.
In the interest of comparison, Tuesday’s speech was also shown on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Univision, PBS, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, FBN, NBC Universo and Estrella. The Rupert Murdoch-run Fox News was the single most-watched outlet with an audience of 11.5 million.
Comparison may actually be where the rub gets a bit raw for Trump, especially in terms of his immediate predecessors. Barack Obama had just more than 48 million total viewers for his first SOTU in 2010 on 11 outlets, and nearly 52 million watched George W. Bush’s post-9/11 first SOTU in 2002 on eight outlets. Adding to the con column, Trump did not beat the 45.8 million who tuned in for Bill Clinton’s first SOTU on ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN in 1994.
Which means Trump’s initial SOTU, the third longest in history, is now also the least watched address in nearly a quarter of a century.
Which is not how White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will characterize things in the coming days, you can be sure. However, POTUS did achieve his supposedly stated goal of topping the Grammys. On CBS on January 28, the three-hour Trump-bashing shindig of music’s biggest night hit a nearly 10-year low with 19.81 million viewers.
