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Oscar Ratings Hits Seven-Year Low, Viewership Worst Since 2009
Deadline Hollywood ^ | 2/23/15 | Dominic Patten

Posted on 02/23/2015 12:19:32 PM PST by Enlightened1

All the awards have been given out and it looks like the final numbers for the 87th Oscars are in. Running from 8:30 PM to 11:48 PM ET last night, the Neil Patrick Harris hosted show garnered a 10.8 rating among adults 18-49 with 36.6 million viewers. Among the key demo that’s a 17% drop from what the final ratings for the 2014 Academy Awards were and the worst the AMAPAS ceremony has done since 2008.That show had a 10.68 rating. The total viewership for last night’s Oscars were down 18% from last year to hit a 6-year low. The 2009 Oscars had a total audience of 36.6 million. Now, the numbers for the 2015 Oscars could see further adjustment, as they did last year but let’s just say, it’s pretty certain they won’t be going up to 2014 or 2013 levels.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2015oscars; hollywood; low; oscar; ratings; trashtv; viewership
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

If you like movies then the Oscars have a de facto interest. Are you amazed people like movies?


21 posted on 02/23/2015 12:32:35 PM PST by Borges
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To: Enlightened1

I’m 38. I’ve never watched the academy awards.


22 posted on 02/23/2015 12:33:04 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Enlightened1
The last time I watched an Oscar show Johnny Carson was the host. I also haven't been to the movies in over 25 years.
Eff Hollyweird.
23 posted on 02/23/2015 12:33:23 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: dainbramaged

I just follow the FR Thread, figured it’s much more entertaining than the real thing.


24 posted on 02/23/2015 12:33:36 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The gays already have the Tony Awards, can’t they leave the rest alone?


25 posted on 02/23/2015 12:34:23 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Enlightened1
Haven't watched the Oscars in 20 years.

I saw the erosion of quality then and I knew it would get to this lowest of points eventually.

Immorality leads the nation.

26 posted on 02/23/2015 12:34:46 PM PST by what's up
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To: Shadow44

Do you like cinema in general? Only 4 Oscars go to actors. The rest go to craftsmen and technicians.


27 posted on 02/23/2015 12:35:32 PM PST by Borges
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To: Enlightened1

American Sniper breaks all box office records.

Good.

Fewer and fewer people watch the oscars.

Good.

Good and good.


28 posted on 02/23/2015 12:35:55 PM PST by samtheman
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To: dainbramaged

Apparently so was Patrick...


29 posted on 02/23/2015 12:37:07 PM PST by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: Enlightened1

Evidence that the crisis in the US is diminishing?


30 posted on 02/23/2015 12:38:25 PM PST by bkepley
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I’m too young to remember but have to believe the Oscars were not this way in 1960,or 1970.

To which David Niven quoted, "Well, ladies and gentlemen, that was almost bound to happen... But isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?"

31 posted on 02/23/2015 12:38:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: ConservativeInPA

Do these people understand the concept of there being a time and a place for everything?

There is a time and a place, a more private place, for Doogie Howser to strut his stuff. I would submit that an awards show on national television is not the time or place for a nearly nude Doogie Howser. I guess I’m just not liberal enough to understand the appeal of him doing this.


32 posted on 02/23/2015 12:38:38 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Borges

I do, but the Academy is politicized and prejudiced and I think too often the awards are tainted by it.


33 posted on 02/23/2015 12:38:45 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Enlightened1
Viewership Worst Since 2009

Would it be impolite to say,"Obama's fault?"

34 posted on 02/23/2015 12:39:49 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Enlightened1

At 46 I haven’t seen them yet...


35 posted on 02/23/2015 12:41:24 PM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: dfwgator

It takes them 3 hours to tell me what I can find by spending 5 minutes on the Internet. Why would I want to watch some liberal BS for that long? No thank you. Besides half the crap that “wins” is crap liberals like, not the American public.


36 posted on 02/23/2015 12:41:34 PM PST by Mean Daddy
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To: Borges

You expect liberals to think?


37 posted on 02/23/2015 12:42:18 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Enlightened1

I saw some of it because the other channels were worse. When the guy started prancing in his underwear I turned the dammed thing off. Nothing but hypocritical political correctness.


38 posted on 02/23/2015 12:42:25 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Enlightened1

The Oscars show was on last night?


39 posted on 02/23/2015 12:42:42 PM PST by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Don Corleone

They just need Kanye West to jump on stage and deliver a rant.
That will perk things up.


40 posted on 02/23/2015 12:44:19 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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