Oscars Ratings Hit Record Low
Moving the ceremony up to 8 p.m. on Sunday on ABC — a half-hour earlier than its
8:30 p.m. slot — did little to aid the show’s rapidly declining audience.
A record low 26.5 million people watched Sunday night’s telecast, a nearly 20 percent drop versus last year.
The previous record low was in 2008 when 32 million viewers watched a hastily organized ceremony
that proceeded just days after the Writers Guild of America’s strike had ended.