Audience for the Oscars rebounded from second-lowest to third-lowest. Sunday’s three-hour, 17-minute ABC television broadcast from Dolby Theater averaged 18.755 million viewers, according to same-day positive live figures published by Nielsen on Tuesday.
Viewership was up 12.47% from the 2022 ceremony, which averaged 16.675 million viewers. Awarded during the Coronavirus Pandemic These ceremonies typically take place for months without a schedule and the format has changed due to COVID-related restrictions.
The Oscars ceremony, held since 2018, is the only one with an average audience of less than 30 million. Individual viewership figures have been kept since 1974. The Oscars have aired on ABC every year since 1976 and promise. of the network with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to air until 2028.
Sunday’s awards ceremony was the most-watched awards ceremony since the 2020 Academy Awards, which averaged 23.639 million viewers.
Compared to other major television shows this season, the Oscars averaged about one-sixth of the average 113.055 million viewers for Fox’s live Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12, surpassing that. Front of ESPN’s College Football Playoff show on Jan. 9, which averaged 16.627 million viewers for Georgia’s 65-7 victory over TCU.
The same applies to almost all forms of programming. Viewership for award shows has been declining in recent years. As there are more options in streaming services. Including the same programs as traditional television.
Viewers for CBS’ Feb. 5 coverage of the Grammy Awards averaged 12.545 million, up 30.8% from 2022 but still the third-lowest on record.
The 2022 Grammy Awards broadcast was postponed to April due to COVID-19 cases. increased in the Los Angeles area. It averaged 9.587 million viewers, airing when television viewing traditionally declined.
The Primetime Emmy Awards on NBC on Sept. 12 averaged 5.924 million viewers, their seventh record low in eight years. The previous low was 6.36 million in 2020 when it aired on the ABC Emmy Awards, rotating annually across the four major broadcast networks.
The Oscars gave ABC the first weekly ratings win for the 25-week prime-time television series in 2022-2023, averaging 5.04 million viewers between March 6 and March. Sunday CBS finished second after five number one shows in six weeks. With an average viewership of 3.93 million, NBC was third. It has an average viewership of 3.04 million.
CBS comedy “Young Sheldon” was the only non-Oscars-related program with an average viewership of more than 7 million, averaging 7.658 million, for its third place of the week.
ABC’s highest rated non-Oscar program was Seattle firefighter drama “Station 19,” which ranked No. 21 of the week, averaging 3.975 million viewers.
The first two spring episodes of the singing competition “The Voice” were NBC’s top two shows. The two-hour season premiered March 6, averaging 6.436 million viewers, ranking fifth for the week. The hour-long blind audition episode the following night averaged 5.121 million viewers, ranking 12th for the week.
Fox has averaged 2.14 million viewers. The first episode of procedural drama “9-1-1” since November 28 leads the ratings. It finished in 13th place for the week with an average viewership of 4.954 million.
Fox aired only one premiere on the five major English-language networks. Dating series “Farmer Wants a Wife,” which is the third show in the 9-10 p.m. Wednesday time slot and tied for the 59th of the week with ABC comedy “The Goldbergs,” has more viewers. Watching an average of 2.463 million, “Farmer Wants a Wife” ranked fourth on Fox’s list, retaining 61.3% of “The Masked Singer’s” viewership, ahead of “The Masked Singer”‘s average viewership of 4.017 million in the rankings. Three for Fox’s show and the week’s #20.
The CW averaged 400,000 viewers. Its fourth biggest draw in six weeks was magic competition series “Penn & Teller: Fool Us,” which averaged 570,000 viewers, ranking it at No. 81 on the list. broadcast No overall rating
The top 20 prime time list includes the Oscars and the two red carpet entries before it. Nine CBS script shows, “60 Minutes” news magazine, and an alternative series. “Survivor”; the two-generation NBC singing competition “The Voice”; Fox’s three shows are “9-1-1,” a spin-off of “9-1-1: Lone Star” and singing competition “The Masked Singer”; and the March 7 edition of Fox News Channel’s political talk show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
The top five prime-time cable programming, including “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” aired Tuesday, with an average viewership of 4.136 million, ranking it at No. 19. Fox News beat the prime-time cable battle. ESPN was second for the third straight week with an average of 1.285 million. MSNBC finished third for the fourth consecutive week after finishing second with an average of 1.053 million.
The top 20 for cable includes 14 Fox News Channel’s weekly talk shows (five “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “Hannity” and four “The Ingraham Angle”); ESPN’s coverage of Duke’s 59-49 victory over Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship game and the scoreboard show 22 minutes earlier and following Texas’ 76-56 victory over Kansas in the tournament. Big 12 Tournament Championship; the history of “The Curse of Oak Island”; MSNBC news and opinion program “The Rachel Maddow Show”; and the first two hours of USA Network’s “WWE Raw.”
The season finale of “The Last of Us” set another high on Sunday night, with 8.2 million viewers on HBO Max and linear broadcasts. Based on Nielsen and first-party data. According to a statement published Monday by Warner Bros. Discovery Streaming.
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