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 […]
ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have expanded their agreement for eight more years, in which the network will remain home to the Oscars through 2028. The existing contract for the Academy Awards was scheduled to expire in 2020. “We’re honored to continue our storied and successful partnership with ABC in […]
ABC dominated Sunday night with coverage of “The Academy Awards” aka “The Oscars”. The positives for the 88th annual event, hosted by Chris Rock, were it grew from the year-ago Oscars with adults 18-34 (+1 percent) and across all key male demos: +20 percent males 18-34, +6 percent males 18-49 and +1 percent males 25-54; […]
