An estimated 38.2 million people watched President Joe Biden deliver his first State of the Union speech last week, spread across several networks that carried it. Fox News Channel, where 7.2 million people watched, had the biggest single audience, reports The Associated Press citing the Nielsen data.
Otherwise, no prime-time program exceeded 8 million live viewers. On a typical night, ABC’s “World News Tonight” with David Muir had a bigger audience than anything else on TV last week.
Among individual prime-time shows, “60 Minutes” finished on top for the second week in a row, Nielsen said.
CBS won the week in prime time with an average of 4.6 million viewers. ABC had 3.9 million, NBC had 3.2 million, Fox had 1.9 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 930,000.
📺Top 20 Prime-Times Show (Total Viewers):
1. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.99 million.
2. “State of the Union,” Fox News, 7.21 million.
3. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 7.13 million.
4. “NCIS,” CBS, 7.12 million.
5. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 7.05 million.
6. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 6.89 million.
7. “State of the Union Preview,” Fox News, 6.62 million.
9. “State of the Union Analysis” (10:10-10:32 p.m. Eastern), Fox News, 6.55 million.
10. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 6.48 million.
11. “State of the Union,” ABC, 6.3 million.
12. “State of the Union: Republican Response,” Fox News, 5.98 million.
13. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 5.91 million.
14. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 5.9 million.
15. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 5.81 million.
16. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 5.7 million.
17. “Ghosts,” CBS, 5.52 million.
18. “Bob Hearts Abishola,” CBS, 5.5 million.
19. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 5.45 million.
20. “State of the Union Analysis” (10:46-11 p.m. Eastern), Fox News, 5.44 million.
📺EVENING NEWS:
ABC’s “World News Tonight” with David Muir won the evening news ratings race with an average of 8.8 million viewers, NBC’s “Nightly News” had 7.3 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.1 million.
TVNewser reports Muir anchored World News Tonight from Przemysl, Poland, near the Ukraine-Poland border on Thursday, March 3, and Friday, March 4. Similar to its competitors, WNT did lose some viewers from the prior week. The newscast shed -2% in total viewers and -4% in adults 25-54 from the prior week (Feb. 21), when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started. Compared with the same week in 2021 (March 1), the trend was worse, with World News Tonight losing -5% in average total audience and -10% among adults 25-54. Nevertheless, ABC’s evening newscast has now defeated its competition from NBC and CBS 170 of the past 171 weeks in average total viewers—and 99 of the last 101 weeks among adults 25-54.
📺CABLE TV
Fox News Channel led the cable networks in prime time with an average of 3.51 million viewers. CNN had 1.81 million, MSNBC had 1.64 million, ESPN had 1.29 million and HGTV had 1.1 million.
During the week, Fox News was the No. 1 basic cable network in total day and primetime among adults 25-54 and in average total viewers. In fact, last week was Fox’s best week in primetime since the week of the 2020 presidential election, reports TV Newser.
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On the programming front, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight moved up to No. 1 in total viewers (4.69 million), followed by The Five (4.21 million), Hannity (3.71 million), Jesse Watters Primetime (3.59 million) and Special Report with Bret Baier (3.31 million) rounding out the top five. Carlson was also No. 1 for the week among adults 25-54 (941,000).
Fox had the 12-most-watched cable news shows of the week. MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show (featuring guest hosts) ranked No. 13 in average total viewers (2.16 million). Fox also had the five-most-watched cable news shows among adults 25-54. CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 came in at No. 6, averaging 626,000 adults 25-54 at 8 p.m.
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