Showing posts with label TV viewers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV viewers. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Entertainment Award Shows - An Idea whose Time is Done?

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When we open the envelope and announce the winner why is it the entertainer has to become a politician, a special interest advocate, or try to create personal attention for their own career?  If they choose the latter, it is usually through the use of provocative techniques.


Whatever the point, they are constantly driving down the number of people watching the shows and a trend that started a decade ago seems to be well established.


Why are winners not able to be humble and thank their fans and those helping them in their career?  The last thing anyone wants to hear is some millionaire entertainer telling us what is in our best interests, or what is wrong with the world we live in.


If I want to watch a political sideshow, there are much better, and more informed sources than the singer or actor who spends most of their life living other people's lives on screen or stage.  Political rants come from all types on the award shows and the hypocritical speeches often are lost in the reputation and actions of the speaker.


Note to nominees - you are not me, you are an entertainer.  Stick to entertaining, that gives you the big bucks to stand on your soapbox and preach to the masses.  A handful of entertainers actually do spend some time the rest of the year helping legitimate causes but they are few and far between.


Here is what the news media has to say about the award show ratings this past year.





Grammys Ratings Woes Worse Than They Appear: A Bad Sign for Oscars?





TV Ratings: Grammy Awards Hit All-Time Low in Key Demo








Sharp drop in ratings for Grammy Awards this year
The television audience for Bruno Mars' dominating night at the Grammy Awards was a sparser one than music's big night has seen for nearly a decade, and a steep decline of 24 percent from the program a year earlier.

The Nielsen company estimated Monday that 19.8 million people watched the Grammys, compared to 26.1 million last year. It was the Grammys' smallest audience since 19 million watched in 2009.
The viewership decline was notable compared to other awards shows recently. The most recent Golden Globes and Oscars telecasts were down 4 percent from the previous year, while last September's Emmys viewership was roughly the same as the year before, Nielsen said.
Grammy viewership has generally been between 20 and 30 million this past decade, from a high of 39.9 million people who watched in 2012, when the awards took place shortly after Whitney Houston's death.
TV Ratings: Oscars Drop to 32.9M Viewers, Telecast Takes a Bigger Hit With Younger Set
After initial indicators had Sunday's lengthy show off from 2016, time-zone adjusted tallies give this year's Oscars an average 32.9 million viewers. That marks a 4 percent drop in viewership from the prior. Early stats had the show averaging an overnight 22.4 rating among metered market households. (Last year's outing saw its overnight score, a 23.4 rating, ultimately translate to 34.4 million viewers.) In the key demo of adults 18-49, this year's show averaged a 9.1 rating — off a more dramatic 14 percent from the 2016 telecast, which averaged a 10.5 rating among the advertiser-favored viewers.


NBC's telecast of Golden Globe Awards draws 19 million viewers, down 5% from last year
On a night when politics nearly overshadowed show business, NBC's telecast of Golden Globes Awards was watched by 19 million viewers on Sunday, a 5% decline from 2017.

But this year's show saw an 11% year-to-year decline in the 18-to-49 age group that advertisers covet most.




Emmys ratings sink to all-time low of 11.3 million viewers

The show, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel for ABC, fell 5% from last year’s broadcast and 22% in the key demo of adults aged 18-49.







The 2018 Grammy Awards Was a Tone-Deaf, Out-of-Touch Mess

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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Presidential debate ratings set record with 81.4M viewers, Nielsen says

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The Coltons Point Times says -

Despite falling a huge 20% short of the news media projections, the Clinton-Trump debate barely beats out former leader Reagan-Carter.

Is this 20% shortfall a foreboding warning of how the news media is way off on poll results?


HIGHLIGHTS
  • Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton debate at Hofstra is most-watched debate in history
  • Bulk of viewers watched on the four major broadcast networks
Monday’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was seen by 81.4 million viewers across numerous broadcast and cable networks, according to Nielsen, making it the most-watched debate in history. The 1980 encounter between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter was seen by 80.6 million.


The bulk of viewers watched on the four major broadcast networks, with 43.8 million tuning in. An estimated 26.1 million watched the three cable news networks with Fox News (11.359 million) attracting the most viewers.


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The bulk of viewers watched on the network-owned stations, but other networks simulcast the debate, including Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, PBS, CNBC, MSNBC, Univision, Telemundo and C-SPAN. The networks’ websites also simulcast the debate. Numerous other websites, from BuzzFeed to Yahoo, streamed the debate, but those numbers are not counted by Nielsen.


There are 115.6 million homes in the United States with TVs; however, Nielsen doesn’t count one person per viewing household, but — on average — over two.



Pundits in recent days had thrown around a figure of 100 million viewers as the benchmark that could be possibly be achieved, or even exceeded.

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

NBA Finals - Battle for Supremacy - Records shattered in Greatest of all Championships

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LeBron James and Stephen Curry have now met three times in the playoff and records are falling to the wayside.

After three games and 583 points scored, the combined scoring difference between the two teams is just ONE POINT, Golden State has 292 and Cleveland 291, though Cleveland holds a 2-1 lead in games.


The first two games ended in overtime, a new NBA record, and LeBron James scored 123 points in the first three games, another new NBA record.


As the referees allow an amazing amount of physical contact, the floor of the game is often covered with bodies in hot pursuit of the ball.  Such enthusiasm was almost lost in the deluge of cash pumped into professional basketball and it is great to see it resurface.


The Cleveland Cavaliers, in existence since 1970, have never won an NBA Championship during the forty-five year history, although LeBron James won two while with the Miami Heat.  Unlike his stint at Miami, James is no longer surrounded by a supporting cast of superstars.


Out west the Golden State Warriors, who were founded in Philadelphia in 1946 and moved to the west coast in 1962, have won three NBA championships but it has been forty years, 1975, since they last won.


In terms of television interest, and noting that TV viewership nationally continues to fall, the first two games drew the largest audiences since ABC took over the broadcast in 2003.  Game 1 drew about 17.8 million viewers and game two 18.8 million viewers, new ABC records and up 26% from last year.


Highlights include a maturing of LeBron James into one of the greatest team leaders, most inspirational motivators, and relentless physical stalwarts to ever play the game.


His success in leading the Cavaliers is in spite of the loss of two stars at the beginning of the finals, and being the decided underdog against the Warriors.

As for the favored Golden State, Curry knows he must be far more aggressive from the start of the game, take more shots rather than pass off so often, and turn up the emotion in order to lead his team back into the lead.


America is being served a dose of basketball the way it used to be before money dominated the game. This series is all about passion, grit, and guts and the battle between the opposing superstars.  It should be a great finish.
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