Posted on 02/05/2020 4:57:35 PM PST by Conserv
Across the board, the audience for the State of the Union on Tuesday night was significantly smaller than last year’s, and those of years past. But one network bucked the trend in a big way, and actually went up from 2019.
According to data from Nielsen, Fox News absolutely throttled the competition on Tuesday night. The network posted a staggering audience of 11.55 million total viewers, with 2.67 million of those falling in the advertiser-coveted adults 25-54 demographic. Overall, Fox News increased its viewership by two percent from 2019. They were the only outlet not to fall from last year.
How dominant was Fox News? They came close to besting the big three broadcast networks combined. NBC was tops in that bracket, posting an overall audience of 4.8 million, with 1.65 million falling in the key demo. CBS was next in total viewers with 4.66 million, but fourth in the demo with 1.03 million. FOX actually placed second among the broadcast nets in the 25-54 subset with 1.49 million. ABC came in third with 1.09 million — to go with their total audience of 4.12 million.
As for the other cable news networks, it was another solid night in the demo for CNN. Their 946,000 viewers in the 25-54 category put them in a strong second — nearly doubling MSNBC with 478,000. CNN also finished second overall, with 2.79 million to MSNBC’s 2.24 million.
How dominant was Fox News? They came close to besting the big three broadcast networks combined.
Murdoch’s kids better pay attention, this means something and ignore whatever that rat tool Ryan is telling them.
And that’s with Brett Baier and Martha MacCallum covering the speech. Tough to find two more contemptible a$$holes on Fox, and that’s saying something.
... at least Ms. Shep is gone.
We have Hannity and (was it Gutfeld) to thank for making the priss run.
NBC & MSNBC are Comcast. And Comcast owns vast amounts of telecom.
Break up Comcast.
I watched it on C-Span.
A pox on Fox until they get rid of Chris Wallace.
Watched and then switched to OAN. Hubs had it on FOX. I’d have been on OAN from the start if I had had the remote
“”””””I watched it on C-Span.
A pox on Fox until they get rid of Chris Wallace.”””””””
Same here. Can’t stand a lot of the fox clowns.
Anybody know what the total viewership of the SOTU was?
Those who had the option should have been on OANN.
Wallace and the dopey judge definitely need to go.
I can put up with the others.
I tried to watch it on Fox News but they were going on endlessly about Iowa and the SOTU was starting so I had to leave.
They had Jill Biden talking about how Joe decided he just had to run after Charlottesville.
President Trump’s address and the Democratic response averaged 33.67 million viewers from 9 to 10:30 p.m. ET on broadcast networks ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC and cable news channels CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.
Viewing on PBS, Univision, Telemundo, Fox Business and CNNe raised the total to 37.17 million, according to Nielsen figures. That’s down about 21 percent from the total of 46.79 million in 2019.
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Tuesday’s year-to-year decline for the State of the Union follows a pattern similar to that of previous administrations. The audience for the speeches from Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in the final year of their first terms fell by an average of 15 percent vs. the prior year.
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The Democratic response drew a combined 24.15 million viewers from 10:30 to 10:45 p.m. on the three cable news nets, ABC, CBS and NBC (figures for the Fox broadcast network weren’t available). Fox News maintained its lead with 7.94 million viewers, and CNN (2.92 million) and MSNBC (2.85 million).
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/state-union-tv-ratings-tuesday-feb-4-2020-1276465
Martha wore white yesterday in solidarity with the Rat women, and today wears black in mourning of Trumps acquittal (I am just assuming...)
The picture of Jody Jones you posted has the caption “Brother Was Killed By Undocumented Immigrant.”
“Undocumented Immigrant” is, of course, from the leftist vocabulary.
Pres. Trump in his speech last night used the correct terminology: “illegal alien.”
I was very gratified about that and proud of him for doing that.
Whoever writes copy for Fox News cannot be trusted.
“Wallace and the dopey judge definitely need to go.
I can put up with the others.”
Agreed.
I HATE Chris Wallace. He is an arrogant, smug, piece of dog crap.
Do these numbers also include viewers who watched the SOTU online?
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