31.8 million watched POTUS....

[monmouth]

Nielsen: 31.8 million viewers watched Obama address

President Obama's second address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday was seen by 31.8 million viewers across 10 television networks.

Obama's viewership was up 29% from his last primetime news event -- July's press conference, which was also on the topic of health care. The president drew 39% fewer viewers, however, than his previous congressional address back in February. By way of comparison, about 31 million TV viewers likewise witnessed Michael Jackson's memorial.


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/index.jsp

[grantcart]

1. and there was a 14% jump in support among those that watched

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

[cliffordu]

6. And a net 14% loss of support here in Du...

[grantcart]

7. you Better Believe It!

[msallied]

16. ROFL! n/t

[demosincebirth]

2. I wonder what the other 269 million were doing? I guess they just don't care.

[FrenchieCat]

3. Well I know that some are kids, and some are in jail.....

:shrug:

[bigwillq]

4. some were working

like me! :)

Although, I snuck off to watch it!

[demosincebirth]

11. I wasn't home either, but I had enough sense to tivo it.

[bigwillq]

12. I don't have tivo.

But ended up getting to watch it! :)

[rocktivity]

13. I get home from work at 9PM EST, was in transit from 8 to 9

Just in time to catch his final paragraph...

:(
rocktivity

[high density]

19. There's TV in prison...

Though they probably aren't Nielsen households. ;)

[lunatica]

8. Here in California it was during the commute home

My boss missed it and said he was going to find a video on it.

[TeamJordan23]

17. Yeah, most people on the Westcoast could not catch it live and had it watch it in repeat or online.

[phleshdef]

9. We had me, my wife, and 5 other adults watching on one tv, brother in law watched online later.

It was probably more people than the stated number.

[Kahuna]

14. Season premier of Glee and SYTYCD. I watched POTUS and recorded

Glee and SYTYCD (So You Think You Can Dance). :patriot:

[rustydog]

20. Operation Repo was on...

You know the show, they reposess cars and trash talk the people as they are taking away their livlihood laughing insalely as they speed away.

[musicblind]

21. My brother and father didn't watch it because they are republicans.

I however did watch it, so did my boyfriend in England, and so did my Mom.

I think, sadly, some people feel helpless or like they can't make a difference. This is so not true... but it is how so many people feel.

[monmouth]

5. I saw somewhere that 6.something watched Fox's dance show..n/t

[boppers]

10. "Watched"?

It was during the drive home for Pacific time folks, so there's also the radio numbers to consider.

[deoxyribonuclease]

15. I don't have a TV, so I watched it on whitehouse.gov

I listened to the 1st half of the speech on NPR while driving home from work and watched the remaining portion on the White House website. I'm sure many others, especially stuck in traffic on the west coast, listened on the radio or watched it on their computers at work.

[grantcart]

18. kick