IHateTheMedia.com’s Administrator watched it, but the Editor watched a Simpsons rerun and the L.A. Lakers-Utah Jazz game.
The Editor wasn’t alone. Turns out most people found something else to do while the President conducted his annual lie fest.
Nielsen.com has the details:
On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 President Obama delivered his State of the Union address. The address was carried live from approximately 9:00 PM- 10:15 PM on 11 networks. The sum of the average audience for those networks was 42,789,947 viewers, with a combined household rating of 26.6. The networks carrying the address included ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, TEL, UNI, CNN, Centric, CNBC, FOXNC, and MSNBC. Viewership to last night’s address was down 18% from his address on February 24, 2009 and down 11% from his State of the Union address last year on January 27, 2010.
The trend is not the President’s friend. In 2009 drew 52,000,000 viewers and a 32.5 rating. In 2010 he rounded up 48,000,000 and a 29.8 rating. In 2011, it fell to 43,000,000 viewers and a 26.6 rating.
Unfortunately, the President’s ratings seem to be following the same trajectory as the economy.
Source: Nielsen.com
