Inaugural ratings likely second best Obama head-to-head with Reagan’s numbers
By
richNJ
on January 21, 2009 at 02:54 pm
Go figure?........Not sure why they covered all the Balls. Unless your there, I can’t see why the TV studios thought it would be interesting enough to watch on TV. American Idol beat their butts.
Early numbers for the inauguration of Barack Obama are impressive but, perhaps surprisingly, could come in below those for Ronald Reagan’s first term in 1981.
n primetime, Fox’s “American Idol” scored the biggest numbers Tuesday, as auds seemed to tire of inaugural coverage. Sure, ABC did solid numbers for its coverage of the inaugural balls, but news specials on CBS and NBC were not competitive with entertainment programs in their time periods.
