Trump's Inauguration Ratings Down Bigly From Biden's [View all]
Source: Mediaite
The television ratings for President Donald Trumps second inauguration are in, and they dropped 27% from President Joe Bidens in 2021 and were nearly 20% lower than Trumps first swearing-in in 2017.
Unsurprisingly, Fox News dominated the ratings for the festivities in the nations capital, beating out both their broadcast and cable competitors, and drawing in the second-highest ratings for Inauguration Day coverage in the networks history, according to a Fox News press release. An average of 10.3 million viewers tuned into Fox News from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm ET Monday, including 2 million in the advertiser-coveted demographic of ages 25-54.
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Altogether, Trumps triumphant return to the White House drew an average total viewership for the day (tracking from 10:30 am to 7:00 pm ET) of 24.59 million viewers, reported The Wrap. That figure is based on combining viewer numbers from fifteen networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, Merit Street Media, Telemundo, Univision, CNBC, CNN, CNNe, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC, Newsmax, NewsNation, and PBS.
That number of 24.59 million viewers was 27% lower than Bidens 2021 inauguration (33.76 million viewers tracked from 17 channels) was 19.75% lower than Trumps first inauguration in 2021 (30.64 million viewers across 12 networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, Univision, Telemundo, CNBC, Fox Business Network, Galavision, and HLN).
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Trump's audience also had only about half as many viewers as Biden's in the 18-34 and 35-54 age groups, but nearly as many in the 55+ group.