{"id":3468,"date":"2009-02-26T08:35:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T08:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2009-02-26T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T08:35:26","slug":"obama_speech_tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3468","title":{"rendered":"Obama Speech TV Audience Lags Clinton (1993) and Bush (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2009\/02\/obama-speech-2.html\">Andrew Malcolm<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>For his maiden congressional address, Obama cleaned President Bush&#8217;s clock in terms of TV viewers willing to watch him speak to a bunch of stuffed congressional suits in the House chamber. Which isn&#8217;t saying much. But it is something for a new president to cling to, especially when you&#8217;re otherwise up against the sleuths of &#8220;NCIS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obama got 52.4 million viewers last night (rounded off for those visiting the bathroom) in 37.2 million homes for a 49 share and 32.5 rating. In his last joint address in 2008 GWB got 37.5 million in 27.7 million homes for a 38 share and 24.7 rating. Bush did top Obama in 2003 with 62 million and a 56 share and we didn&#8217;t even have the Iraq reality show going then. (But it was coming.)<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s first joint session appearance drew nearly 39.8 million and a 42 share.<\/p>\n<p>However, Obama still lags the audience-drawing power of one President Bill Clinton. Sixteen years ago this week, when there were millions fewer Americans, Big Bill drew nearly 15 million more viewers &#8212; 66.9 million for his first congressional speech in 44.2 million homes for a 44.3 rating.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2009\/02\/obama-speech-2.html\">Andrew Malcolm<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>For his maiden congressional address, Obama cleaned President Bush&#8217;s clock in terms of TV viewers willing to watch him speak to a bunch of stuffed congressional suits in the House chamber. Which isn&#8217;t saying much. But it is something for a new president to cling to, especially when you&#8217;re otherwise up against the sleuths of &#8220;NCIS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obama got 52.4 million viewers last night (rounded off for those visiting the bathroom) in 37.2 million homes for a 49 share and 32.5 rating. In his last joint address in 2008 GWB got 37.5 million in 27.7 million homes for a 38 share and 24.7 rating. Bush did top Obama in 2003 with 62 million and a 56 share and we didn&#8217;t even have the Iraq reality show going then. (But it was coming.)<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s first joint session appearance drew nearly 39.8 million and a 42 share.<\/p>\n<p>However, Obama still lags the audience-drawing power of one President Bill Clinton. Sixteen years ago this week, when there were millions fewer Americans, Big Bill drew nearly 15 million more viewers &#8212; 66.9 million for his first congressional speech in 44.2 million homes for a 44.3 rating.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,39,23,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}