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TV Ratings: Oscars Plummet to Record Low, Down 58% Compared to Last Year
Variety ^ | 4/26/2021 | Monica Zorrilla

Posted on 04/26/2021 11:04:04 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, broadcast live from both Union Station and the Dolby Theatre in L.A. on ABC, hit a staggering low.

Per Nielsen Live+Same Day preliminary national numbers, an average of 9.85 million viewers tuned in on Sunday evening to watch a more intimate and stripped-down version of the Oscars in the midst of a pandemic. That’s a 58.3%, 13.75 million viewer drop-off from last year. The Academy’s third host-less show in a row scored a 1.9 rating among adults 18-49 in the fast national ratings, a 64.2% dip from 2020.

For comparison, last year’s ceremony garnered a 5.3 rating in the key demographic and 23.6 million viewers

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KEYWORDS: hollyweird; oscars; oscars2021; ratings; whocares
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To: Ge0ffrey

Most of the left wingers have stopped allowing comments. They were getting savaged overwhelmingly.

That puts a lie to their claim that liberals are the vast majority.


61 posted on 04/26/2021 11:48:57 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: SES1066

Good response.


62 posted on 04/26/2021 11:49:16 AM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: dfwgator

I have no problem with actual liberals. DemonRATs and the political Left are not liberals.


63 posted on 04/26/2021 11:50:42 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: marcusmaximus

What is this Oscar thing you are talking about?


64 posted on 04/26/2021 11:54:09 AM PDT by Exit148
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To: Seruzawa

Tonight we will be watching Prime Suspect. We have a rotation that includes Midsomer Murders, Cracker, Foyles War, Rebus, Vera, Scott and Bailey, Taggart plus French mysteries like Capitaine Marleau, Murder In and Perfect Murders.


65 posted on 04/26/2021 11:55:33 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: newfreep

Yep! I love my black friends to the core...never saw color in them but fun smarts and witty as heck but this racial BS the BLM and global elites have forced down our throats has ruined it for everybody. I guess you can say I had scales on my eyes because I never saw them as black I never saw white yellow etc ...Now i’m beginning to feel resentful for what they’ve done to this nation and calling all of us that are not dark skin racist no matter what color you are. Blacks hitting on Asians etc. and calling us racist have ruined everything. Yes I too don’t watch too much TV anymore...feel like I I live in Africa. Every freaking commercial it’s like throwing a bone to the black community what an insult! They’re trying too hard to please the black community it feels fake and over nauseating ...I call it overkill!


66 posted on 04/26/2021 12:00:45 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

We’ve burned through a lot of those. We’re doing As Time Goes By, New Tricks and Gil Mayo now.


67 posted on 04/26/2021 12:01:05 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: marcusmaximus
Shocked...shocked I tell you.

Can't imagine why no one wants to watch depraved, self-indulgent, drugged out weirdos, lecture them about social justice, while collecting their statues for playing pretend, in films nobody has heard of?

🤔

68 posted on 04/26/2021 12:01:55 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will ever be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: simpson96
I wondered how many blacks and Asians they'd be strutting across the screen......while they handed out useless participation awards for each other.
69 posted on 04/26/2021 12:04:44 PM PDT by caww ( lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. Matt:24:12)
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To: nicksaunt

I’m lucky enough to have been a movie-mad kid when actual stars like Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Audrey Hepburn were presenters, Bob Hope and Johnny Carson were hosts, and nominees were actors like John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Jack Lemmon, Paul Newman and Julie Andrews. My family never missed the Oscars in those days.


70 posted on 04/26/2021 12:05:29 PM PDT by JennysCool ( "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." ― Mark Twain )
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To: marcusmaximus

Do a computer simulation of Bob Hope hosting the Oscars and I’ll watch.


71 posted on 04/26/2021 12:07:44 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
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To: RoseofTexas

If I was a black person in America today, I’d be completely embarrassed by all the media pandering. It’s beyond ridiculous.


72 posted on 04/26/2021 12:08:25 PM PDT by JennysCool ( "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." ― Mark Twain )
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To: Larry Lucido

At least the English Patient wasn’t up for vote.


73 posted on 04/26/2021 12:09:52 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: RoseofTexas
....” I too don't watch too much TV anymore...feel like I I live in Africa. Every freaking commercial it's like throwing a bone to the black community what an insult! They're trying too hard to please the black community it feels fake and over nauseating”.....

I sooo agree and Heck , I listened to the Astronaut's Q&A and Wash. Post reporter tried to stir up race and corner the black guy about his color....Nasa blocked that part of his question so he never heard it......The Press loves stirring up race every second of every day in all circumstances relentlessly....like vultures attacking red meat!

74 posted on 04/26/2021 12:15:59 PM PDT by caww ( lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. Matt:24:12)
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To: setter
Anyone notice commercials during Oscars were 95% black actors

Pretty much that way in regular programming. Most families are mixed race as well.

75 posted on 04/26/2021 12:16:32 PM PDT by hattend
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To: Nateman

I can’t get dissenter to work with my Brave browser.


76 posted on 04/26/2021 12:18:54 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: JennysCool

They’ve graduated from being on the streets to the next level .........TV Commercials. Won’t be long they’ll be complaining they only get the grunt acting jobs..


77 posted on 04/26/2021 12:19:05 PM PDT by caww ( lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. Matt:24:12)
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To: marcusmaximus

Why watch? - there’s no suspense anymore - the black or minority candidate always wins.......


78 posted on 04/26/2021 12:20:06 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Dilbert San Diego

All good points. I’d like to say that I didn’t recognize a single movie among the various nominees, but it’s even worse than that. I never even read a single article about the Oscars at all this year, and never saw or read anything about any movies released in the last two years. LOL.


79 posted on 04/26/2021 12:40:19 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: setter

I have been noticing this for the last 3 months.


80 posted on 04/26/2021 1:02:03 PM PDT by Zathras
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