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TV Ratings: Video Music Awards Hit an All-Time Low on MTV
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 21 Aug 2018 | Rick Porter

Posted on 08/21/2018 6:33:12 PM PDT by Rummyfan

For the second straight year, the MTV Video Music Awards drew its smallest audience ever.

Monday's show drew 2.25 million viewers and a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49. Across eight Viacom-owned channels, it drew 4.87 million viewers and a 2.2 in the demo; both sets of numbers fall short of the 2017 VMAs, which set the previous low.

The awards also aired on a ninth Viacom network, TV Land, for which numbers weren't immediately available. It's highly unlikely, however, that enough people tuned in there to push the VMAs past their 2017 on-air total of 5.36 million viewers and 2.6 rating in adults 18-49.

The 2017 awards also aired opposite a huge Game of Thrones finale on HBO; the heaviest head-to-head competition on cable Monday was WWE Monday Night Raw on USA (1.1 in 18-49, 3.1 million viewers) and an NFL preseason game on ESPN (0.8, 2.66 million).

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hollywood; mtv; mtvawards; music; ratings; ratingslist; television; vmaawards
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A coupled of things...

One, I didn't even know they still did this show...

Two, what the hell look was Madonna going for here?!


1 posted on 08/21/2018 6:33:12 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

because that asshole kevin Hart started bitching about Trump? Just sayin...


2 posted on 08/21/2018 6:34:25 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: Rummyfan

She looks like a gilded brass dildo. Just sayin’.


3 posted on 08/21/2018 6:37:12 PM PDT by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber.)
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To: Rummyfan

Millennials destroyed music.


4 posted on 08/21/2018 6:39:18 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Rummyfan

Limo bizkit/juggalo


5 posted on 08/21/2018 6:42:52 PM PDT by steel_resolve (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: Rummyfan

I think Madonna wanted people to think about how ‘exotic and regal’ she looked, instead how OLD she looked.
I’m tired of her, but I think she goods pretty good for her age and amount of surgery done. At least she doesn’t look like Courtney Love or Cher.
Madonna was a Birthday Girl on August 16th, now 60 y/o!
She doesn’t look a day over.......fill in the blank.


6 posted on 08/21/2018 6:43:27 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: max americana

Terrible numbers.....keep it up Kevin Hart, old boy!!! Ya done real good..you foolish, buffoon!!!


7 posted on 08/21/2018 6:44:00 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Rummyfan

Show might be better if they had actual music from actual musicians.


8 posted on 08/21/2018 6:44:06 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: Rummyfan
Old Auntie M is starting to resemble Betty Davis in her elderly years. Tough look.

Who's the youngster? Monica?

9 posted on 08/21/2018 6:44:17 PM PDT by muleskinner
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To: Rummyfan
Just a little historic context, from Wikipedia:

Year Viewers (millions)
1994 5.36
1995 6.33
1996 5.07
1997 7.47
1998 8.94
1999 11.94
2000 9.85
2001 10.76
2002 11.95
2003 10.71
2004 10.32
2005 8.01
2006 5.77
2007 7.08
2008 8.43
2009 8.97
2010 11.4
2011 12.4
2012 6.13
2013 10.1
2014 8.3
2015 5.03
2016 3.3
2017 2.66
2018 2.25

10 posted on 08/21/2018 6:48:03 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Rummyfan

I was watching the Drying Paint channel.


11 posted on 08/21/2018 6:48:36 PM PDT by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: The Toll

No, rappers, thugs, and hip hoppers did

Along with ass kissing homisexual executives


12 posted on 08/21/2018 6:48:47 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: Rummyfan

What’s the Music Awards? Who is Madonna? (that’s how much they mean to me!!)

Are there awards for the best opera at the MET, or talk of the tenors and sopranos and all those other wonderful voices??

Have you all given a donation to this wonderful FReeRepublic??


13 posted on 08/21/2018 6:49:22 PM PDT by Exit148 ( (Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: Rummyfan

Icelandic Honey Week

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v4OkbeKbNVI


14 posted on 08/21/2018 7:02:06 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Rummyfan

Whoredonna looks like death warmed over.


15 posted on 08/21/2018 7:04:05 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: Rummyfan

MTV? It’s still a thing? What’s It’s AOL keyword?


16 posted on 08/21/2018 7:15:21 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("When they go low, we go spy." - Hillary Clinton campaign slogan)
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To: Steely Tom

May it die like the NFL.


17 posted on 08/21/2018 7:20:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan

“what the hell look was Madonna going for here?!”

Tibetan whore?


18 posted on 08/21/2018 7:20:41 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Consensus isn't science.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

[No, rappers, thugs, and hip hoppers did]

I agree.


19 posted on 08/21/2018 7:20:47 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: DallasBiff

I she still driving around in her limo picking up anyone and everyone to have sex with????? I am surprised she doesn’t have some serious STD or AIDS at this point.


20 posted on 08/21/2018 7:26:42 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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