About 32.6 million viewers tuned into President Trump’s 107-minute-long State of the Union address on Tuesday night, according to Nielsen.
That audience figure fell short of the 36.6 million that tuned in for Mr. Trump’s joint session speech last year, which at roughly 100 minutes was then the longest such address in the modern era. Viewership on Tuesday was roughly on a par with President Joseph R. Biden’s final State of the Union address in 2024, which, according to Nielsen, had an audience of 32.2 million.
Fox News had the largest audience of any television network, scoring more than nine million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen figures. CNN and MSNBC each had over two million viewers.
ABC had the most viewers of any broadcast network, notching more than five million viewers, with NBC and CBS scoring a little better than three million.
The Nielsen data mostly measures Americans watching off their television sets, leaving out millions of viewers who watched the address off digital news sites or saw short clips of it on social media platforms.
John Koblin covers the television industry for The Times.
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