32 Million Viewers in the U.S. Tune In to Watch President Obama’s Speech on Syria

On Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, President Obama addressed the nation, detailing his positions and strategies for how the U.S. might best handle the ongoing turmoil in Syria. The speech was carried live from approximately 9:00-9:15PM EST on 13 networks. The sum of the average audience for those networks was 32,301,139 viewers, with a combined household rating of 21.0. The following networks carried the address: NBC, ABC, AZA, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, Mun2, Gala, FXNC, FBN, CNBC, CNN and Al Jazeera.

Television Viewership for President Obama Speech on Syria

Networks	Date	No. of Networks	Combined Household Rating	Number of Households	Number of Persons (P2+)
NBC, ABC, AZA, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, Mun2, Gala, FXNC, FBN, CNBC, CNN, Al Jazeera	9/10/2013	13	21	24,428,865	32,301,139
Note: All viewing based on Live+SD data Source: Nielsen

Previous TV Viewership for Select President Obama Speeches

Subject	Date	No. of Networks	Combined Household Rating	Number of Households	Number of Persons (P2+)
Job Creation	9/8/2011	11	20.9	23,981,685	31,439,080
Death of Bin Laden	5/1/2011	9	33.9	39,242,395	56,512,179
Address on Libya	3/28/2011	8	16.9	19,543,951	25,636,310
Speech on Iraq	8/31/2010	11	18.8	21,818,342	29,232,689
Note: All viewing based on Live+SD data Source: Nielsen