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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Mon Feb 29, 2016, 07:36 PM Feb 2016

TV Ratings: Oscars Drop to Near All-Time Low With 34.3 Million Viewers

Early numbers are in for the 2016 Oscars, and the initial stats have the Chris Rock-hosted telecast down even farther from last year's lows. The telecast ranks as the second-lowest rated on record, with 34.3 million viewers, per Fast National ratings.

Nielsen's overnight estimates had the 3½-hour ABC event on track for another drop with an average 23.4 rating among households in 56 of the nation's biggest TV markets. That's off 6 percent from 2015, making for a seven-year low in overnights.

The least-watched Oscars on record is still the 2008 ceremony hosted by Jon Stewart. That show came in just shy of 32 million viewers.

This year's Oscars seemed poised to go either way ahead of the big night. The weekslong controversy over the complete absence of racial of diversity in the acting categories stood to turn many viewers away from the telecast, with some calling for a boycott, but the question of how Rock would address #OscarsSoWhite could have also goosed the ratings. Evidentially, it was the former.

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TV Ratings: Oscars Drop to Near All-Time Low With 34.3 Million Viewers (Original Post) Purveyor Feb 2016 OP

We watched it. B Calm Feb 2016 #1

Or, if you were like my parents... Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #2

That 34,000,000 # must be a lie scscholar Feb 2016 #3

I didn't watch it Warpy Feb 2016 #4

Didn't watch it, but caught the new meme on Facebook. Baitball Blogger Feb 2016 #5

B Calm

(28,762 posts)

1. We watched it.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 07:37 PM

Feb 2016

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

2. Or, if you were like my parents...

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 07:38 PM

Feb 2016

You watched it just long enough to catch the Chris Rock intro, then turned away. Cause who really cares about Hollywood people giving each other awards?

scscholar

(2,902 posts)

3. That 34,000,000 # must be a lie

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 07:45 PM

Feb 2016

As far as I know, I've never met someone that has watched that garbage.

Warpy

(111,351 posts)

4. I didn't watch it

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 07:54 PM

Feb 2016

but I did read the "get your shade here!" thread on another site, describing the confections the starlets were wearing. That was fun. The thread died quickly once the boring awards were handed out.

Baitball Blogger

(46,758 posts)

5. Didn't watch it, but caught the new meme on Facebook.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 07:59 PM

Feb 2016

Something like, so the president of the Oscars is black, so what are they complaining about?

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