More than 52 million viewers tuned in for President Barack Obama’s address to Congress Tuesday night, Nielsen Media Research said. Drawing 52.37 million, the speech pulled in more viewers than last year’s by nearly 15 million people. Although technically it was President Obama’s first State of the Union...
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I was flying over “ruby red” Utah last Tuesday when the television networks called the presidential election for Sen. Barack Obama. We’d already had our first beverage and snack service—animal crackers, Terra chips and a Doritos snack mix among the choices—and the JetBlue flight from New York to Oakland...
An estimated 78.58 million people watched prime-time coverage of the historic election on 14 broadcast and cable networks Tuesday night, according to final national averages from Nielsen Media Research. That’s a dramatic increase from the 59.17 million who watched Election Night on 10 networks in 2004...
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An estimated 56.5 million people watched the last of the three debates between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama, according to Nielsen Media Research. Wednesday night’s audience is smaller than the 63.2 million who watched the Oct. 7 presidential debate but larger than the 52.4 million TV turnout...
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The second of three presidential debates between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain on Tuesday night was watched by 63.2 million people tuning in to 11 channels--27 million more people than saw their first debate Sept. 26, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. That’s a reversal from 2004...
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