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Black audience for the Oscars dropped to nearly half of last year's viewers
With all of the talk preceding this year's Academy Awards about the total absence of black nominees, it's no surprise that the number of African-Americans that tuned in dropped by 42.7 percent from last year's record-setting high. The 2.4 million that tuned in was the lowest black Oscar audience in the past three years.

The most watched TV network title remained with CBS, which had 13 million for its 11 shows on the Top 25 of the week. ABC followed with 9.5 million for 7 of its programs. Fox finished third with 6.4 million across four shows.

According to Nielsen, the total number of viewers watching the Top 25 for the last week of February was virtually the same as the previous week's 32.6 million.

Top 25 Broadcast Shows in Black Households

 
Rank | Program | Network | % AA Homes | % of AA | No. Viewers 2+
1
ACADEMY AWARDS
ABC
12.6
6.6
2,470
2
AMERICAN IDOL-WEDNESDAY
FOX
10.9
5.7
2,131
3
AMERICAN IDOL-THURSDAY
FOX
10.2
5.5
2,064
4
OSCAR'S RED CARPET LIVE-3
ABC
10.0
5.0
1,875
5
NCIS: LOS ANGELES
CBS
9.1
4.5
1,707
6
NCIS
CBS
7.6
3.7
1,392
7
CRIMINAL MINDS
CBS
7.6
3.9
1,477
8
THE GOOD WIFE
CBS
7.1
3.4
1,260
9
CRIMINAL MINDS: SUSPECT
CBS
7.1
3.8
1,445
10
OSCAR'S RED CARPET LIVE-2
ABC
7.0
3.3
1,253
11
THE MENTALIST
CBS
6.8
3.3
1,255
12
CHICAGO CODE
FOX
6.6
3.3
1,246
13
CSI: MIAMI
CBS
6.4
3.0
1,135
14
BLUE BLOODS
CBS
6.3
3.0
1,143
15
CSI
CBS
6.2
2.9
1,107
16
CSI: NY
CBS
6.0
2.8
1,046
17
GREY'S ANATOMY
ABC
5.7
2.6
975
18
OSCAR'S RED CARPET LIVE-1
ABC
5.7
2.6
983
19
PRIVATE PRACTICE
ABC
5.7
2.6
979
20
HARRY'S LAW
NBC
5.6
2.5
952
21
GLEE
FOX
5.5
2.7
1,027
22
NO ORDINARY FAMILY
ABC
5.3
2.6
979
23
LAW AND ORDER:SVU
NBC
5.2
2.6
984
24
60 MINUTES PRESENTS
CBS
5.1
2.3
851
25
HAWAII FIVE-0
CBS
5.0
2.5
954





Source: Nielsen Media Research. Number of viewers ages 2+ shown in thousands (1,000 = 1 million). Rankings are based on share of black households. Representing more than 13.45 million television households in the U.S., the African-American television audience is the largest minority segment in Nielsen's measurement samples. All times eastern.
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2 comments:

Tonia Lee Smith said...

I wonder why?

Craig said...

There was just no excitement around it. James Franco... ?