section_path: Viewership
section_name: Viewership
paragraph_text: Viewership
  
  Approximately 24.6 million total viewers watched the inauguration across 15 networks. The viewership number peaked at 34.4 million when Trump took the oath of office at 12:15 PM ET. Viewership was lower than that of Biden's 2021 inauguration as well as Trump's first inauguration in 2017. The figures below, Nielsen data sourced from Adweek, do not include streaming figures.
  
  Approximately 24.6 million total viewers watched the inauguration across 15 networks. The viewership number peaked at 34.4 million when Trump took the oath of office at 12:15 PM ET. Viewership was lower than that of Biden's 2021 inauguration as well as Trump's first inauguration in 2017. The figures below, Nielsen data sourced from Adweek, do not include streaming figures.