zap2it.com - 2/25/2008
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Because of Sunday's Academy Awards telecast, full fast national ratings for the night are being delayed. We will post the numbers as they become available.
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TV with MeeVee —
... Preliminary results from last night suggest that last night's Oscars
broadcast didn't do as well as usual, but that it still gave ABC the
edge for the night. (Zap2It) ...
Oscar ratings: Not good
From Inside the Box —
... Any number of explanations will likely be proffered for the steep decline in ratings for the Oscars this year -- but whatever reason you like, there's no question that the audience shrank by quite a bit. ...
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The Nielsen ratings are in and they are reporting that last night’s ceremony, the 80th Annual Oscars broadcast on ABC is the least watched since 1974. That’s when the ratings started being tracked.
As expected, without nominated films like “ Lord of the Rings ” or “ Titanic ” there’s very little interest for lame red-state Americans to tune in ...
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ABC, and its advertisers, were expecting this year’s Oscars to follow the trends of years past, with ratings increasing . How else could they rationalize charging marketers $120,000 more per 30-second spot?
Well, they did charge them more: $1.82 million per ad. Except this year, ratings slid the other way. Way the other way .
Not only is Nielsen estimating ( hah! ) 21 percent ...
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Last night's Oscar telecast, which was dominated by Europeans few people have heard of winning for movies few people have seen, wasn't exactly a ratings bonanza. Shocker . In fact, the 80th annual Academy Awards is on its way to being the lowest-rated Oscar presentation ever.
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Just in from USA TODAY's Gary Levin: Last night's Oscar show pulled in the worst ratings ever - 32 million viewers, according to Nielsen's "fast national" ratings.
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Preliminary ratings for last night's Academy Awards are in, and, as many predicted, it was the worst-watched Oscar telecast of all time! Viewership was down 20 percent from last year and 14 percent lower than 2003's lowest-rated ceremony ever. Maybe Americans weren't clamoring for high-quality scripted entertainment after all!
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USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live
Whether the strike is to blame or the lack of box office appeal in the movies nominated, the Oscars tanked this year in the ratings. According to ABC's very preliminary household metered market overnights, the awards averaged a 21.9 rating/33...
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