Whatever Happened to Trump's Big Tulsa Rally? TV Stats Are Out, and They're Huge

Steve Warren
06-24-2020

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Critics have made a big deal about the fact that many seats were empty at Trump's Tulsa, OK rally held last Saturday in the BOK Center. But new figures released Tuesday show it wasn't a sign of Trump losing support. His supporters were all at home watching the live event from the comfort of their living rooms. 

TVNewsCheck reports the Fox News Channel aired Trump's speech live and had the biggest Saturday night audience in the network's 24-year history, according to the TV audience measurement company Nielsen. Fox News had 8.2 million people watching during Trump's rally at 9:00 pm Saturday. 

The Trump campaign said that even more viewers watched the President's Tulsa rally 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.

MSNBC and CNN only aired clips from Trump's speech, but the numbers show both cable networks had about twice as many viewers as they normally draw on Saturday nights. Altogether, the three networks had around 12 million viewing their coverage of Trump's first campaign rally in three months. 

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Steve Warren is a senior multimedia producer for CBN News. Warren has worked in the news departments of television stations and cable networks across the country. In addition, he also worked as a producer-director in television production and on-air promotion. A Civil War historian, he authored the book The Second Battle of Cabin Creek: Brilliant Victory. It was the companion book to the television documentary titled Last Raid at Cabin Creek currently streaming on Amazon Prime. He holds an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma and a B.A. in Communication from the University of
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