Inauguration Day Ratings: Biden's Audience Beats Trump's, CNN Tops All Television

[MissMillie]

Source: Mediaite

Nearly 40 million viewers tuned in as President Joe Biden took the oath of office Wednesday, some 1.5 million more viewers than former President Donald Trump’s 2017 swearing-in ceremony, with CNN getting the most viewers out of all the networks – broadcast and cable – covering the event.

It was a record-breaking day for some of the networks. CNN saw its most-watched inauguration coverage in the network’s history, while MSNBC posted its highest-rated dayside hours ever. For the first time, ABC News’ special daytime coverage of the inauguration was the most-watched among broadcast networks.

From 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., during Biden’s swearing in and Inaugural Address, a total of 39.87 million viewers tuned in, topping the 38.35 million total viewers who watched Trump take the oath of office in 2017 (although neither Biden nor Trump came close to the 51.07 million who watched former President Barack Obama’s first swearing-in ceremony in 2009).

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/inauguration-day-ratings-bidens-audience-beats-trumps-cnn-tops-all-television/ar-BB1cYGFB?ocid=U483DHP&li=BBnbfcL

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[underpants]

1. Oh. That has to hurt.

[riversedge]

8. and I hope it hurts T's ego HARD

[JI7]

2. Trump is overrated and fucking boring just like his supporters.

[C Moon]

12. Right you are!

[truthisfreedom]

3. Snot puppies for 45.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Delicious!

Best served cold!

[Stallion]

5. Now with Knowledge the Country is in Good Hands, I Think I'll Watch Some Hoops Tonite

it's been a long 4 months or so

[bucolic_frolic]

6. I take CNN's ratings to be an indication

that the political middle, long vacated for extremes on the right and left, is experiencing a resurgence of citizens craving competence, patriotism, normalcy, and moderation.

[AllyCat]

7. We watched all day! So great!

[halfulglas]

9. Good thing Trump doesn't have Twitter any longer.

It would melt.

[marlakay]

10. We needed to see it really happened

We do this question thing on a non political site I am in and the question yesterday was did you watch the inauguration. All these women are not into politics, they all said they watched at least part of it, it was on in waiting rooms, etc.

[KewlKat]

11. Love it

[Tommymac]

13. We had MSNBC on wall to wall all day.

The coverage was excellent, my only beef is that they did not show the Virtual Parade in the afternoon live.

AFAIK PBS was the only channel to show it. Could be wrong though MSNBC covered the Senate swearing in and Pres Joe working at his desk.

The Evening Virtual Concert was just awesome and I applaud MSNBC talking heads for remaining silent throughout it.

[Maeve]

14. I have never watched as much Inauguration Day coverage as I did Wednesday

Nor cried as much while watching, tears of joy and hope.

I loved when Obama took office, but now we have a better idea of just how bad it can get.

[Irish_Dem]

15. I watched TV starting at 9am Wed until 2am Thursday.

I couldn't stop watching the coverage and commentary.
I think I needed to make sure it was real.