The small display didn’t convey the massive numbers.
After a several-month delay as a result of Hollywood strikes, the Emmy Awards on Fox drew the lowest-ever viewers for the ceremony.
Initially scheduled to air in September, the seventy fifth Emmy Awards went up towards NFL playoffs on ABC and ESPN Monday night time, and averaged solely 4.3 million viewers, based on quick nationwide rankings from Nielsen.
This marked the primary time the ceremony competed towards the NFL, and the published noticed a 27% drop from final yr’s earlier document low of 5.92 million, which aired on NBC.
Fox does anticipate a bump in viewership Wednesday when last numbers are available, but it surely’s powerful to think about second-day numbers attain final week’s Golden Globes, which noticed a 50% year-over-year acquire on CBS, averaging 9.4 million viewers.
Whereas numbers for the soccer recreation between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are usually not but accessible, first-round playoff video games have been averaging greater than 25 million viewers, together with 23 million for the Peacock unique Wild Card recreation Saturday night time, the primary time a playoff recreation aired completely on a streaming service.
The Emmys additionally went up towards protection for the Iowa caucuses, which averaged 4.67 million viewers in primetime throughout Fox Information, MSNBC and CNN.
The ceremony, hosted by Anthony Anderson, obtained usually optimistic opinions and included solid reunions from long-running collection like Gray’s Anatomy and Cheers—and a plethora of awards for FX’s The Bear, which this publication nonetheless maintains is just not a comedy.
The Emmys return in September to ABC, and maybe can then buck the continued rankings decline.