Sunday’s 76th Emmys Awards telecast on ABC reached a median 6.9m viewers on ABC community to file its highest degree in three years, in keeping with Nielsen knowledge.
The viewers represented a 60% gained over the all-time low of a median 4.3m viewers who tuned in for the seventy fifth Emmys ceremony, which was postponed from September 2023 to January of this yr as a result of Hollywood actors strike. Fox was the broadcaster on that event.
Sunday’s ceremony additionally drew an viewers that was 8% bigger than the 6.3m common viewership in 2020 – when there was no in-person viewers due to the pandemic. That was additionally the final time ABC broadcast the present earlier than CBS and Paramount+, NBC and Fox took over duties.
Whereas the previous few years have produced a number of low-points when it comes to viewership, the uptick from the 76th ceremony is constructive information.
The Emmy Awards are the newest US leisure ceremony to see a rise in viewership.
The 96th Academy Awards again in March noticed viewership on ABC climb 4% on 2023 to succeed in a four-year excessive, whereas the Golden Globes CBS viewers elevated by 49.2% year-on-year and equally recorded highest viewership since 2020.
FX collection Shogun and The Bear dominated Sunday’s Emmy Awards ceremony and the prior weekend’s Inventive Arts Emmy Awards, with 18 and 11 trophies apiece.