Blade_Runner wrote:
According to Nielsen ratings, Trump's inauguration had the 2nd largest TV viewership in 36 years--31 million. (Obama, 2009--37 million; Reagan, 1981--41 million)
Trumpâs numbers are all the more remarkable considering heâs entering into office with rather low approval ratings compared to past presidents and sparked protests worldwide along with vows to not watch his inauguration.
And actually, Trump could have been seen by more viewers than either Obama or Reagan. Nielsen ratings do not account for online viewing, which has grown sharply in recent years and is far more commonplace than even four years ago. CNN.com, for example, clocked 16.9 million live streams, tying with its E******n Day coverage for the siteâs top event (live stream tallies are typically not apples-to-apples with Nielsenâs strict methodology of counting average viewers, but are still additive). Plus, portals like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter offered live streams as well.
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