State to see about 48 million to Obama Union

LOS ANGELES - about 48 million people watched the state of Barack Obama's first president of the Union address on 11 networks, with Fox TV in the largest share. The Nielsen Co. has heard such talk Wednesday 7 percent less than President George W. Bush 's first actions in 2002, but 5 percent higher than for the first state to President Bill Clinton, the Union speech in 1994. EST Clock from 9-10, more than 9.7 million people saw the hour plus speech on Fox, ABC Drawing School with 7.6 million viewers, NBC 7.2 million and CBS 6.2 million, according to preliminary figures from Nielsen on Thursday. These initial figures do not reflect the West Coast viewers of his speech, which aired at 5 pm PST. Among the cable news networks, Fox News was the leader with 5.7 million, CNN with 3.3 million and MSNBC followed with 2.4 million euros. The speech was carried live on Telemundo, Univision, BET and CNBC.