ABC’s live telecast of “The Oscars” on Sunday attracted an average audience of 29.6 million total viewers and a 7.7 rating in adults 18-49, based on Nielsen’s Live + Same Day “fast national” ratings. Comparably, the telecast stands as TV’s most-watched entertainment telecast in two years and top-rated with young adults in over one year – […]
The conclusion of the busy awards season arrives this Sunday, February 24, with the annual ceremony that’s the granddaddy of award shows, the Academy Awards. The year of 2018 in cinema featured, of course, a slew of popular superhero fare, led by Marvel’s mega-hit “Black Panther”. It also proved that music-themed movies (“A Star Is […]
With the 91st Annual Academy Awards taking place Sunday, February 24, 2019 on ABC, here is your chance to predict who will win via the Programming Insider Academy Awards Pick’Em Game! The participant(s) earning the most Pick’Em points will get a mention in the Programming Insider newsletter. Also, the Programming Insider Academy Awards Pick’Em Game […]
As we near the end of 2018, there was another record number of original scripted programming options vying for eyeballs (across all platforms) and a continued emphasis on the “when you want where you want” programming philosophy. The consumption of content, of course, is no longer reliant on a particular schedule or at home in […]
From Shareablee: The Twitter boards, of course, went wild at that very end of the lengthy 89th Annual Academy Awards telecast on Sunday when…egads…the wrong film was announced as the Best Picture winner. But one particular tweet, perhaps, that exemplified the mood of note during the live telecast was… Ready to watch #Oscars2017, or as […]
Sunday night was all about ABC for Oscar night. Although the near four-hour “89th Academy Awards” ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, is projected to be the top entertainment (non-sports) program of the year, its 32.94 million viewers also ranked as the second least-watched Oscars of the modern era (since 1973). It was also the lowest-rated […]
What follows are the fast affiliate results for Sunday, February 26, 2017 broken out by network and by each half-hour. Keep in mind that thse set of ratings for any live telecast is always approximate. -Total Viewers: ABC: 27.49 million, CBS: 4.93, NBC: 3.11, Fox: 2.54 -Adults 18-49: ABC: 7.4 rating/23 share, Fox: 0.7/ 2, […]
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To ignite interest in Sunday’s “89th Annual Academy Awards” telecast on ABC, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, what follows is an update of the notable facts, observations and Oscar moments since its inception in 1928. Keep in mind that each bullet point pertains to the year the movies ran in the theaters. 1928 Wings wins in […]
Denzel! Casey! Emma! Viola! The stars! The fashions! The hoopla! It’s “The 89th Annual Academy Awards,” live on ABC this Sunday, as an array of considerably more diversified faces compete for the coveted statuette. Considering the audience erosion for the “Academy Awards” last year (34.3 million viewers in 2016 marked an eight year low and […]
