Oscar TV Ratings Second Lowest in History

The only Oscar broadcast that was lower was the year of COVID – when Hollywood wasn’t making films and there was no Oscar event.

Will Smith’s orgy of violence on live television was terrible but a moment befitting 21st century America. Once the best of everything, America – under the boot of the cultural left – has come to represent the worst of everything.

Coming off the least-watched and lowest-rated Oscars ever from last year’s pandemic protocols hybrid affair, the real goal was to get the numbers up to help justify the Disney-owned network’s $100 million annual license fee it pays

Oscar Viewership Rises From Dismal 2021 To Second-Lowest Ever With 15.4M Watching – Update

By: Deadline, March 28, 2022:

Going into last night, the 94th Academy Awards’ notoriety seemed almost exclusively to be birthed from the decisions by organizers and the producers to cut the handing out of eight so-called below-the-line categories in an effort to move the show along at a quicker clip and increase on-air star power.

Almost overwhelming historic wins by CODA and actor Troy Kotsur, Power of the Dog director Jane Campion, and West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose, the enduring infamy of the 2022 Oscars will of course now be Will Smith’s maniacal slap of Chris Rock for insensitively mocking Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair and the Academy doing nothing to the subsequent Best Actor winner.

And after all that, the ceremony produced by Will Packer and Shayla Cowan still went over three and a half hours on ABC and one hour off-camera for those neglected crafts awards.

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Still, coming off the least-watched and lowest-rated Oscars ever from last year’s pandemic protocols hybrid affair, the real goal was to get the numbers up to help justify the Disney-owned network’s $100 million annual license fee it pays out to the long-struggling Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences event.

UPDATED, 10:29 AM: If only the Oscars themselves moved as fast as the numbers counters at ABC.

Mere minutes after fast-affiliate data for the 94th Academy Awards was out, the Disney-owned net that pays tens of millions a year to broadcast Hollywood’s biggest but stumbling night was out with the adjusted fast nationals.

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Moving up a bit from the preliminary data, the 2022 Oscars now is estimated to have had 15.4 million viewers and snagged a rating of 2.9 among adults 18-49.

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