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Emmys Viewership Jumps by 54% to 6.9 Million Viewers After Record-Low Ceremony in January
The Emmys brought an average 6.87 million viewers to ABC on Sunday night, up 54% from January's telecast.
The January Emmys struggled for viewership, having been postponed from their original September 2023 date due to the Hollywood strikes and forced to air against an NFL playoff game. Disney’s recent dispute with DirecTV, which caused a two-week blackout of Disney-owned stations for DirectTV customers, was originally predicted to impact Emmy viewership, but access to ABC and other networks was restored on Saturday. In her review, Variety critic Alison Herman called Sunday’s Emmys a “drab” and “relatively muted affair,” nothing that “it’s hard to make a yearly awards show feel special when it’s staged twice in one year” and that the awards “largely served as a reflection of a less-than-vital moment in TV history, not a counterpoint.”
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