Tuesday, February 11, 2014

73 million Americans watched the Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles made their appearance.

The population of the USA in 1964 was 191,888,791 including children. Nearly 40% of the country watched the broadcast.

In 1964, 92.3 percent of American households had television and there were 51,600,000 television households. 

That would mean at least one person per television household was watching the Beatles in their historic first appearance in 1964.