Fox's broadcast of the awards goes (well) under 10 million viewers for the first time.
Time zone-adjusted ratings for Sunday's telecast on Fox have the awards pulling in 6.9 million viewers, down almost a third fromThe show also pulled in a 1.6 rating among adults 18-49, down 33 percent from 2.4 a year ago and also an all-time low.
The adjusted numbers show an ever bigger fall than the preliminary ratings, which came in at a 5.7 household rating in metered markets. That was off by 23 percent from the 7.4 for the 2018 Emmys, which aired on a Monday night . The last time Fox aired the Emmys, in 2015, the ceremony drew what was then an all-time low of 11.87 million viewers.
The slide for the Emmys is also easily the biggest decline among the major televised awards shows in 2019, which reversed, or at least halted, several years of declines from a mid-decade peak. The Oscars improved by more than 10 percent in both total viewers and adults 18-49, and the Golden Globes and Grammys were fairly steady year to year. 's chief TV critic Daniel Fienberg noting the producers made "one bad choice after another.
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