LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Some 31 million U.S.
television viewers tuned in to see President
Barack Obama lead a memorial tribute to victims
of the deadly shooting rampage in Tucson,
Arizona, according to TV ratings provider
Nielsen.
The emotionally charged speech, in which
Obama urged Americans not to politicize a
tragedy that left six people dead and 13 others
wounded, drew generally high marks for his bid
to balance words of consolation with a call for
national unity.
The seven-network tally for Obama's 30-minute
address, carried live on Wednesday night from
the University of Arizona, topped the 29 million
viewers the president drew in August for his
speech on U.S. involvement in Iraq.
It fell just shy of the 32 million people who tuned
in to watch an address he delivered in June
about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,
Nielsen reported on Thursday.
By comparison, the most highly rated show on
U.S. television, Fox network's "American Idol,"
typically averages roughly 25 million viewers for
any given episode.
Obama commanded a bigger audience yet, 48
million viewers, with his last State of the Union
address in January 2010, according to Nielsen.
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