President Trump averaged 45.6 million viewers for his first State of the Union address, according to Nielsen estimates for 12 broadcast and cable networks.
Trump's turnout was down about 2 million from his speech last year, officially known as an Address to the Joint Sessions of Congress in the first year of a presidency. And it fell below similar speeches in President Obama's first two years in office: 52.4 million in 2009 and 48 million a year later.
But the combined total, from 9 to 10:30 p.m. ET, outdrew Fox's NFC Championship football game on Jan. 21 by about 3 million viewers.
Fox News Channel claimed about one of every four viewers Tuesday, with 11.5 million for the most-watched network. Well over half of the combined total — 26.6 million — was by viewers ages 55 and older, while just 4.2 million adults ages 18 to 34 watched, Nielsen says.
Ratings typically decline in later years of a presidency: Obama's audience dipped steadily throughout his eight-year term, to 31.3 million in 2016, his last year in office
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