After initially reporting that Academy Award viewership was up based on the biggest 56 TV-viewing cities, after all the numbers are counted including all the rural areas, the viewership in total is DOWN this year. I imagine after Chris (“ass”) Rock’s dismally poor performance, the numbers will be down even further next year. This is a good thing.
NEW YORK – With comedian Chris Rock, the Academy Awards (news – web sites) succeeded in its effort to find a younger audience — but perhaps at the expense of the country as a whole.
A total of 41.5 million viewers tuned in Sunday to watch “Million Dollar Baby” take the Oscar for best picture. That’s down 2 million from last year’s show, which honored “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” according to Nielsen Media Research.
ABC undoubtedly hoped for better, after preliminary figures released earlier Monday from the top 56 markets were the strongest they were in five years.
The drop in total viewership was an indication that this year’s Oscar ceremony was more popular in the big cities than rural areas, more so than an average Academy Awards, said Larry Hyams, vice president of audience analysis and research for ABC.
[…] The peak during that stretch was the “Titanic” year of 1998 with 55.2 million […]
Sounds like the the big appeal for the Oscars are among people in urban centers—the blue counties—where all the liberals voted Democrat in the last election. You would think this would wake Hollywood up.
2004 electoral map by individual county
Red = Republican, Blue = Democrat
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