More Than 40 Million Viewers Tuned Into Obama's Primetime Press Conference
Posted Mar 26, 2009 at 10:28 AM by Maurice Berger
In what is undeniably a testament to President Obama's popularity, Nielsen reports that 40,354,000 tuned in on Tuersday evening 24 March to watch the second prime time news conference of his presidency. The networks carrying the press conference were ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Telemundo, Univision, CNBC, CNN, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, mun2. NBC led with 9.8 million, followed by ABC with 8.7 million, CBS drew 8.3 million and Fox had 4.3 million. The President’s first prime time press conference was watched by 49.5 million people on eight networks on February 9, 2009.
