Inauguration Makes History

According to Nielsen Media Research, 37.8 million TV viewers watched the inauguration coverage making it the largest audience in decades. Comparing it to other inauguration audiences it was 27% higher than Bill Clinton's in 1993 and 30% larger than George Bush's in 2001. Ronald Reagan's first inauguration in 1981 drew a much larger audience with 41.8 million. These numbers do not take into account all of the viewers watching online. It seems that this was an event a lot of people were not going to miss.