The Nielsen Company says an estimated 24.6 million people watched coverage of President Donald Trump's second inauguration.

Summary

Donald Trump’s second inauguration drew an estimated 24.6 million television viewers, the lowest audience for a presidential inauguration since Barack Obama’s second in 2013.

Viewership declined compared to Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration (33.8 million) and Trump’s first in 2017 (30.6 million).

Fox News led coverage, averaging 10.3 million viewers during the swearing-in and speech, while other networks saw smaller audiences.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    15 hours ago

    They even track DVR and VOD. Pretty interesting. For streaming it’s actually the distributor that’s responsible for tagging a program so Nielsen can analyze the ratings.

    Thank you for making me curious enough to look that up.