A whopping 43.4 million people watched Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress last night. The overall ratings winner was Fox News with over 10 million viewers. They beat ABC, CBS and NBC in total viewers. They also nearly doubled the total amount of viewers that CNN and MSNBC combined for last night.
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More than 43 million watched Pres. Donald Trump‘s first address to Congress last night on the broadcast and cable news networks, according to Nielsen.
Fox News was the most-watched on all of TV for the speech, drawing 10.765 million. NBC was second (first among the broadcasters) drawing 9.144 million. Among the younger news demo (A25-54) NBC was first, followed by Fox News. NBC had The Voice as its lead-in. As these are Nielsen numbers, this only includes TV viewing and not viewers who watched on streaming services.
9:15-10:15 p.m. ET | Total Viewers / A25-54 demo
Fox News: 10,765,000 / 2,784,000
NBC: 9,144,000 / 3,286,000
CBS: 7,156,000 / 1,897,000
ABC: 6,065,000 / 2,074,000
CNN: 3,944,000 / 1,517,000
FOX: 3,076,000 / 1,383,000
MSNBC: 2,683,000 / 669,000
FBN 593,000 / 118,000