7/24/2023 0 Comments Sotu speech 2019That’ more than 1 million more than the demo second-place holder Fox broadcast and well above CNN and MSNBC’s 946,000 and 478,000 in the demo, respectively. While ahead of the 31.3 million who tuned in for Barack Obama’s final SOTU on January 12, 2016, the big drama of Trump’s talk last night was far behind the 43.5 million who watched Bill Clinton give his JanuSOTU while facing an ultimately unsuccessful impeachment trial in the Senate.Ĭo-anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, FNC’s SOTU coverage also snared a night-topping 2.7 million in the coveted news demographic of adults 25-54. In the FNC-dominated 9 – 10:30 PM ET slot, a soundly beaten CNN and MSNBC had audiences of 2.8 million and 2.2 million, respectively. In fact, all nets and cablers were down except FNC, who saw a 2% bop up in viewership. To be specific (and granted we don’t have metrics from PBS, Univision and a few others yet), that’s a 27% plunge overall from last year, which saw a slight bounce from 2018. Topped once again by a surging Fox News Channel and its audience of 11.5 million, the combined results from Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, Fox, ABC, CBS and NBC brought in 34.2 million viewers, a double-digit drop from last year’s final SOTU numbers. Senate Acquits President Donald Trump In Finale To Impeachment Processĭespite one literal and figurative zinger after another, plus a Medal of Freedom given live to Rush Limbaugh, the former Celebrity Apprentice’s latest address to Congress looks to be his least watched ever.
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