Trump rally gives Fox News largest Saturday night audience in its history
By Brian Flood
Trump rally gives Fox News largest Saturday night audience in its history | Fox News
President Trump's rally on Saturday attracted a record-setting audience on TV despite the smaller-than-expected crowd in attendance at the Tulsa, Okla., event.
A whopping 7.7 million total viewers tuned into Fox News from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. EDT during Trump's remarks, making it the most watched Saturday in the network's history during that time period, according to early Nielsen data.
Trump's rally also gave Fox News its largest Saturday night primetime audience
ever from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Trump's State of the Union address is the only telecast on Fox News in 2020 to outdraw the 9 p.m. hour of Trump's speech on Saturday, which
averaged 8.2 million total viewers.
By comparison, ESPN's coverage of the NFL Draft's opening night averaged 8 million, MSNBC's most-watched Democratic primary debate averaged 7.7 million and CNN's most-watched Democratic primary debate averaged 7.4 million.
The Trump campaign has stated that even more viewers tuned in when including the significant audience that watched via streaming platforms.
"President Trump's rally in Tulsa attracted over 4 million unique viewers across all of the campaign's digital media channels. The live-streamed pre-rally shows drew an audience of more than 2.5 million unique viewers by themselves," Trump 2020 communications director Tim Murtaugh said in a statement.
Fox News' YouTube stream picked up over 2.1 million views, while Fox Business Network's livestream drew over 580,000. The rally was streamed on a variety of other platforms, as well....