Tuesday Final Nationals: President Trump’s First Primetime Presser Down One-Third from Obama’s in 2009

Prime time was delayed for approximately 20 minutes on this Tuesday evening as President Trump announced Neil Gorsuch as his selection for the Supreme Court. An estimated 32.42 million viewers (according to Nielsen preliminary data) across seven networks watched Trump’s first press conference in prime time as President. CBS led all outlets in total viewers while NBC was tops among adults 25-54 (the coveted demographic for news programming). Fox News Channel easily led cable.

The viewer figures for the networks that televised Trump’s presser were, as follows:

ABC: 5.182 million viewers, 1.471 million adults 25-54

CBS: 7.97 million viewers, 1.878 million adults 25-54

NBC: 5.912 million viewers, 1.96 million adults 25-54

Fox: 2.203 million viewers, 0.943 million adults 25-54

CNN: 2.029 million viewers, 0.684 million adults 25-54

Fox News Channel: 7.558 million viewers, 1.556 million adults 25-54

MSNBC: 1.57 million viewers, 0.378 million adults 25-54

The event drew 35 percent less viewers than President Obama’s first prime time press conference (49.46 million) which aired on the same seven networks along with Spanish broadcaster Univision, back on Feb. 9, 2009.

For the rest of prime time, CBS was No. 1 in total viewers (5.74 million), NBC — with game show “The Wall” — led in adults 18-49 (1.2 rating/4 share) and adults 25-54 (1.6/5), as well as sharing in the lead for adults 18-34 with Fox and CW (0.7/3 each).

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* AFF = Number of affiliates (stations) airing the program
* CVG = percent of coverage in U.S.
	Tuesday, January 24, 2017
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.7/3	2728	0.4/2	0.7/2	0.9/3
8:18	The Middle (r)	250	93	2.6/4	3974	0.5/2	0.9/3	1.2/3
8:48	American Housewife (r)	250	93	2.0/3	3142	0.4/2	0.8/3	1.1/3
9:18	Fresh Off the Boat (r)	250	93	1.6/3	2541	0.3/2	0.7/2	1.0/3
9:48	The Real O’Neals (r)	250	93	1.3/2	1931	0.3/1	0.5/2	0.7/2
10:00	Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	250	93	1.4/3	2152	0.4/2	0.6/2	0.8/3
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			3.7/6	5737	0.4/2	0.7/3	1.2/3
8:22	2 Broke Girls (rs)	254	94	3.6/6	5539	0.4/2	0.7/3	1.1/3
8:30	Kevin Can Wait (rs)	254	94	2.9/5	4464	0.4/2	0.7/2	1.0/3
9:00	Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials (s)	253	93	4.0/7	6469	0.5/2	0.9/3	1.4/4
10:00	Bull (rs)	254	93	3.7/7	5667	0.4/2	0.6/2	1.0/3
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			3.2/6	5103	0.7/3	1.2/4	1.6/5
8:17	The Wall (rs)	246	93	2.8/5	4602	0.7/3	1.1/4	1.4/4
9:00	The Wall	246	93	3.7/6	6064	0.9/4	1.5/5	2.0/6
10:00	This Is Us (rs)	244	93	2.9/6	4501	0.6/3	1.0/4	1.3/4
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			2.1/3	3292	0.7/3	0.9/3	1.1/3
8:20	New Girl (r)	255	93	1.0/2	1664	0.4/2	0.5/2	0.6/2
8:31	The Mick	258	93	1.7/3	2967	0.8/4	1.1/4	1.2/3
9:01	Bones	258	93	2.3/4	3761	0.6/3	0.8/3	1.1/3
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.5/2	2420	0.7/3	0.9/3	1.0/3
8:00	The Flash	248	91	1.8/3	3063	0.9/4	1.1/4	1.2/4
9:00	D.C.’s Legends of Tomorrow	248	91	1.1/2	1776	0.5/2	0.7/2	0.8/2
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.1/2	2126		0.7/3
7:00	Despertar Contigo			0.8/1	1507		0.5/2
8:00	Despertar Contigo			1.0/2	1762		0.6/2
9:00	Vino el Amor			1.2/2	2365		0.8/3
10:00	El Color de la Pasión			1.2/2	2251		0.8/3
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.4/1	700		0.2/1
7:00	Moisés y Los Diez Mandamientos (r)			0.3/1	688		0.2/1
8:00	Moisés y Los Diez Mandamientos			0.7/1	1402		0.5/2
9:00	La Viuda Negra			0.2/0	467		0.2/1
10:00	Blue Demon			0.1/0	231		0.1/0
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average (preliminary)			0.9/1	1575	0.6/3	0.6/2
8:00	La Fan (preliminary)			0.7/1	1233	0.4/2	0.4/2
9:00	La Doña (preliminary)			0.9/1	1574	0.5/2	0.6/2
10:00	El Chema (preliminary)			1.0/2	1917	0.8/4	0.8/3

Note: All of this date’s Telemundo data are based on preliminary figures.

Sub-Demo Breakdowns – Tuesday 1/31/17

Cable Rankings – Tuesday 1/31/17
What follows are the top 100 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Tuesday, January 31:

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research