America is using common sense and getting a reality check, that there is nothing important about them Obama celebrations. The new season of “Idol” got 22.4 viewers while the “Inaugural Ball’s” got 12.6 viewers.
More on it here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/01/in-ratings-race.html
While I’m no fan of “American Idol” anymore like I used to be, I don’t watch the show anymore, but it’s great to see that they rather watch that instead of Obama celebrating his presidency all damn day.
Kev
K'Brocking 
The inauguration scored 38 million viewers, peaking at noon, when the President was sworn in. That does not count the millions of people who were watching it online via cnn.com or similar. CNN experienced extreme server overload.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/21/obama-inauguration-rating_n_159792.html
Those people may not have cared about the inaugural balls, but they certainly cared about the history making speech and inauguration itself.
Whatever you say, Brock.
What I say about the ratings of the Inauguration is the truth, it may be the highest rated of all Inaugurations since the Ronald Reagan Inauguration back in 1981, but it’s defnitely not the “most” viewed of all of TV overall, if that’s what you’re trying to prove. It still couldn’t top the ratings of the Reagan inaugural. If more people tuned in then I’m sure it would beat the Reagan ratings.
I am assuming that the people that didn’t tune in the Obama Inauguration are the people who are McCain/Palin supporters. 38 million viewers for Obama’s Inaugural was good but it still couldn’t top Reagan’s, so that’s a sign that there are still a lot of people out there that don’t like Obama either. There are some that were rooting for McCain/Palin camp to get elected.
Kev
Again, you nailed it on the head! I didn’t tune in because I was at work, it was in the middle of the day on a Tuesday when most adult Americans are chained to a desk or workstation in places that have no TVs. I wonder what the ratings would have been like if most Americans had access to a television at the time it went down?
I tend to doubt the ratings figures anyway, because most school children were certainly tuned in at their schools, it being a historical major event and all of that. 40 years ago our new President wouldn’t have been able to vote in many states… and now….. he’s like the President. And then there are the billion or more people in other countries who watched because they were off work being that they are in different time zones… yeah, 38 million sounds a bit low, not counting the five million Americans who watched online at their desks. I’d place the ratings at close to a billion or more.