02-11-2020, 06:19 PM
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By Chris C. Anderson, Editor at LinkedInUpdated 8 hours ago"The Academy Awards broke another record on Sunday besides awarding the first-ever Best Picture Oscar to a non-English language film: drawing the smallest TV audience in the history of the show. ABC’s broadcast of the 92nd Academy Awards attracted 23.6 million viewers, the least since Nielsen began tracking the numbers in 1974. While widely criticized for failing to produce any nominations of female directors, the Oscars did manage some diversity when bestowing its highest award on the South Korean film, “Parasite.” Best actress went to Renee Zellweger for "Judy;" Joaquin Phoenix took best actor for "Joker."
I'm not surprised: there's more to take in and watch now with the streaming apps like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime: all this great original programming. Same with HBO, Showtime, Starz, etc. I personally still like going to the movie theater, but I can't remember the last time a movie came out that I was super excited about. People are also captivated by reality TV shows like The Voice, America's Got Talent, etc. Also, millennials aren't watching the Oscars, lol. Throw in that most of the traditional (network) TV watchers left today are definitely more conservative and Hollyweird continues to slant more extremely liberal and have these ridiculously 'out-there' acceptance speeches and you get historical low ratings. But having said that, box office sales were very good last year in 2019. People just aren't watching TV in the way they used to. Its so easy to record things you want to watch when you want to watch them.
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By Chris C. Anderson, Editor at LinkedInUpdated 8 hours ago"The Academy Awards broke another record on Sunday besides awarding the first-ever Best Picture Oscar to a non-English language film: drawing the smallest TV audience in the history of the show. ABC’s broadcast of the 92nd Academy Awards attracted 23.6 million viewers, the least since Nielsen began tracking the numbers in 1974. While widely criticized for failing to produce any nominations of female directors, the Oscars did manage some diversity when bestowing its highest award on the South Korean film, “Parasite.” Best actress went to Renee Zellweger for "Judy;" Joaquin Phoenix took best actor for "Joker."I'm not surprised: there's more to take in and watch now with the streaming apps like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime: all this great original programming. Same with HBO, Showtime, Starz, etc. I personally still like going to the movie theater, but I can't remember the last time a movie came out that I was super excited about. People are also captivated by reality TV shows like The Voice, America's Got Talent, etc. Also, millennials aren't watching the Oscars, lol. Throw in that most of the traditional (network) TV watchers left today are definitely more conservative and Hollyweird continues to slant more extremely liberal and have these ridiculously 'out-there' acceptance speeches and you get historical low ratings. But having said that, box office sales were very good last year in 2019. People just aren't watching TV in the way they used to. Its so easy to record things you want to watch when you want to watch them.
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