Weak showing for Emmys Show draws smallest audience on record By RICK KISSELL
The "Primetime Emmy Awards" on Fox drew the kudocast's second smallest audience on record Sunday night, averaging 13.1 million viewers, according to preliminary nationals from Nielsen.
This year's audience comes in well below the 16.2 million that NBC garnered for its late-August telecast a year ago and the 18.7 million that watched on CBS two years ago. That puts television's biggest night behind the most recent audience for other kudocasts like the Academy Awards on ABC (40.2 million), the Grammy Awards on CBS (20.1 million), the Golden Globe Awards on NBC (20.0 million) and the Country Music Assn. Awards on ABC (16.0 million).
In adults 18-49, this year's preliminary 4.3 rating/11 share is a 17% falloff from last year's 5.2/13 and believed to be the lowest on record. It was the night's No. 2 program in the demo, with NBC's New England-San Diego NFL matchup expected to produce roughly a 6.7 rating/17 share.
The smallest Emmy audience on record remains the 1990 telecast, also on Fox, which drew 12.3 million viewers.
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This is what happens when the general public knows that the show is going to be nothing more than a protest rally for all of the "well informed" actors and actresses of the world. Stop meeting with dictators like Hugo Chavez and telling us all how to live our lives and maybe, just maybe people will watch. It appears that the only people that tuned in were the lemmings awaiting there marching orders from Leo, Ben and Rosie (all of which are subject matter experts in the military, economics, environmental patterns and ethics).
