Well, the joke's on the networks then, they would have had much high ratings if they'd carried it, because here in Chicago, the local NBC affiliate did carry the speech, and according to the president of the local NBC, they had the highest carryover ratings into their next program that they've had in many years, if ever.
He himself decided to carry the speech here, he said, because Chicago has a large percentage of viewers who don't have cable, something like 32% of the population, so he felt it was their duty to carry the speech.