Posted on 02/28/2005 3:09:29 PM PST by kellynla
Following in the footsteps of both The Golden Globes and Grammy Awards, ratings for Sunday night's 77th Annual Academy Awards were down this year.
Some 41.5 million viewers on average watched ABC's Oscar telecast this year, a 5 percent drop from 2004, according to Nielsen Media Research. The sweep by "Million Dollar Baby," the Clint Eastwood boxing flick that won four of the top six awards, drew a 25.2 rating and a 38 share, according to figures released Monday afternoon by ABC.
A rating represents the percentage of total U.S. television households. A share represents the percentage of homes with their televisions on at the time.
The numbers, released Monday afternoon, are lower than the preliminary returns widely reported earlier in the day. Monday morning ABC, which is owned by Walt Disney (Research), said ratings from the top U.S. markets showed a 30.1 rating and a 43 share.
Nielsen ratings can fluctuate until they are finalized. The data that ABC released Monday afternoon, while not official until Tuesday, are a lot closer to the mark than the earlier results.
While Oscar ratings for the last two years are higher than they were in 2003 -- when 33 million viewers tuned in to see "Chicago" shimmy its way to a best picture statue -- viewer levels over time show that Oscar is slowly losing his Midas touch.
Academy Award viewership has been sliding since 1998, when the blowout success of "Titanic" helped draw 55 million watchers, according to Nielsen. That year, in which "Titanic" hauled in 11 Oscars, marked the ceremony's best showing since 1983.
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I like your tag line. Please tell our rain that all is forgiven and it can come back to Seattle.
I was attacked on the live thread last night for citing this as drivel...looks like I wasnt't alone!
If "The Passion" had been up for more awards I would have watched.
What happened to that?
I suppose it was all spin from one of his Hollywood buddies.
I'd pay for shipping if the rain would go back to the Northwest for awhile.
There is actually only a slight chance of rain next Sat and Sun, but dry otherwise.
Yes, the lament about ratings being down because there were no "blockbuster" ($100m+) nominees is laughable.
"The Passion" was THE blockbuster and the judges ignored it, so "The Passion"'s audience ignored the Oscars and awaits its re-release.
Seems fair and balanced to me.
Here's hoping you all dry out... I lived there during the 1983 El Nino and from what I'm hearing this one's worse.
Interesting. On radio, earlier today, ABC News said that the ratings were the highest in 5 years (they said due to Chris Rock).
Ratings were up in the large cities, but down big time in the more rural areas. Which was to be expected, the Oscars this year seemed to have written off red-staters. We only watched the first few minutes, where in the opening movie clips they showed a lady biting a sausage that was strategically positioned over the private parts of a naked guy in the background. Then when Chris Rock started bashing Bush, we turned the channel. I bet a whole lot of people did so, too. Would love to see the incremental viewership numbers.
Kid Rock intended to sink the Oscars.
Think about it ... his distaste for the entire affair and he's the one chosen to MC?
Why?
I'll not post "DETERIORATA" again, but it comes to mind.
< / tin foil >
And we all know the MSM would not mislead us (/sarcasm)
I know I hopelessly aging myself, I remember when STAR WARS first came out. (When it was still shinning and new, not rehashed to death) Everybody was ga-ga over the movie and was sure it would win the Oscar for Best Movie.
Fat chance! Apparently too many of the great unwashed [that's us] liked it. So instead, Best Movie went to Woody Allen's "Annie Hall"!
It was right there I started seeing the Oscars in a whole new light.
The host was Chris Rock, not Kid Rock.
I was among those who liked 'Annie Hall' more then Star Wars. It's a great movie!
Thanks, I hope so too. We are moving to Lake Arrowhead in the next few months. The house up there suffered about 5k worth of damage and we can't fix it until the rain stops and things dry out. We got over 90 inches up there.
The good news is the lake is now full. Up from 19 feet down last November.
Freedom-loving peoples are reshaping the world while terrorists are trying to lop off their heads or blow them up. Meanwhile, Hollywood plays dress up, mock Bush and middle America, then congratulate each other for "courage."
In a world where reality is more amazing than fiction, we just don't find show business all that interesting anymore.
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