President Barack Obama’s primetime press conference Tuesday night drew 40.4 million viewers across 11 broadcast and cable networks. Last night’s press conference was down 18% from President Obama’s first primetime press conference on Feb. 9, which was watched by 49.5 million viewers across eight networks, and down 23% from his Feb. 24 address to a joint session of Congress, which topped 52.4 million viewers across 10 networks. The 11 networks that aired the press conference were broadcast nets ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Telemundo and Univision and cable channels CNBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and mun2.

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Posted Wed, Mar 25 2009 5:11 PM by News