The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-nba-star-paul-pierce-was-only-impressed-by-caitlin-clark-after-she-beat-a-bunch-of-black-girls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa</a> and LSU Elite Eight viewer ratings set a new record for women&#8217;s basketball on Monday following the NCAA March Madness showdown in Albany, New York.
The Hawkeyes&#8217; 94-87 surprise victory over the Tigers scored more than 12 million viewers for ESPN, drawing an even bigger crowd than the Final championship for the NCAA Women&#8217;s Basketball game last year between Iowa and LSU, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/iowa-lsu-rematch-womens-basketball-tv-ratings-record-1235865159/">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.
In 2023, LSU&#8217;s 102-85 victory over the Hawkeyes set what was then an all-time ratings record on the sports network for women&#8217;s basketball, earning 9.9 million viewers across ABC and ESPN2.
However, the game on Monday — which was a rematch between the two schools — drew 12.3 million viewers on average and ended up being the most-watched show in primetime. It also beat out the biggest ratings for a program on broadcast networks, which was CBS&#8217; &#8220;NCIS&#8220; with 5.9 million viewers, the outlet noted.
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TV Ratings: Iowa-LSU NCAA Rematch Sets All-Time Record for Women&#8217;s Basketball <a href="https://t.co/Hr6IQi4yDK">https://t.co/Hr6IQi4yDK</a>
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1775281120596398391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
The last time a women&#8217;s basketball game got close to those numbers was more than 40 years ago in 1983 at the <a href="https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/lists/usc-womens-basketballs-run-to-the-1983-national-championship/">NCAA title game</a> broadcast of USC&#8217;s 69-67 victory over Louisiana Tech. That game drew an audience of 11.83 million people, THR noted.
The NCAA women&#8217;s basketball showdown also was the second most-watched game of men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tournament basketball this year, beaten out only by Sunday&#8217;s North Carolina State upset of Duke in the men&#8217;s division, which drew 15.14 million viewers on CBS.
The three other NCAA women&#8217;s Elite Eight games scored huge numbers, with the round scoring four of the five biggest women&#8217;s Elite Eight games ever, the outlet noted. South Carolina and Oregon State&#8217;s game averaged 3.1 million viewers on ABC on Sunday, while the North Carolina State and Texas matchup brought in 2.5 million. 
On Monday, Connecticut&#8217;s 80-73 victory against USC, also topped all broadcast shows with about 6.7 million viewers. The average audience of the Elite Eight round was 6.2 million. The ratings for the women&#8217;s games in that round are up 184 percent over last year&#8217;s, the outlet noted.
The Hawkeyes will now travel to Cleveland, Ohio, to play the Connecticut Huskies on Friday in the Final Four round of the NCAA women&#8217;s basketball tournament.
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The game between the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chiefs-prove-once-again-when-its-time-to-be-clutch-be-clutch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kansas City Chiefs</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49ers-stars-wife-lands-nfl-deal-after-making-one-of-a-kind-coats-for-taylor-swift-and-brittany-mahomes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco 49ers</a> became the most watched Super Bowl ever after bringing in more than 123 million viewers on Sunday.
The Chiefs&#8217; 25-22 victory in overtime gave CBS its most-watched telecast ever with 123.4 million average viewers across the CBS TV broadcast and platforms like Paramount+, Univision, NFL digital properties, and more, a press release from <a href="https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-sports/releases/?view=109259-cbs-sports-presentation-of-super-bowl-lviii-is-most-watched-telecast-in-history-with-1234-million-viewers-across-platforms">CBS Sports</a> read.
The viewership for Sunday&#8217;s battle at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas saw a 7% increase over last year&#8217;s Super Bowl coverage which drew 115.1 million viewers, The <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/super-bowl-lviii-tv-ratings-sunday-feb-11-2024-1235822599/">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.
At one point, more than 200 million viewers watched all or part of the 2024 Super Bowl, across networks, the release noted. That&#8217;s up by 10% over last year&#8217;s Super Bowl, which scored 184 million viewers at one point during Super Bowl LVII, in which the Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35.
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CBS says the Super Bowl LVIII matchup between the 49ers and Chiefs was the most-watched telecast in history, averaging 123.4 million viewers across all platforms. <a href="https://t.co/DliwzKygqT">pic.twitter.com/DliwzKygqT</a>
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1757234061787951296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
CBS also scored the largest audience in history for a single network with 120 million viewers, the CBS Sports release read. 
To put the Super Bowl audience into perspective, Sunday&#8217;s viewership comes close to the between 125 million and 150 million viewers who tuned on CBS, ABC, and NBC in to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, but those figures are not official, THR noted.
The Super Bowl ratings follow the best ratings the NFL has seen in both the regular season and the playoffs since 2015, <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/01/chiefs-bills-nfl-divisional-playoff-ratings-1235802215/">Deadline</a> noted.
In January, the NFL, Fox, and CBS celebrated after the two conference championship games scored massive ratings with more than 50 million viewers each, a first in the last ten years, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfl-scores-massive-ratings-for-championship-games" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The AFC Championship Game on CBS featuring the Chiefs&#8217; 17-10 victory over the Baltimore Ravens brought in 55.4 million viewers, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nfc-afc-championship-tv-ratings-sunday-jan-28-2024-1235809921/">The Hollywood Reporter</a> noted. CBS&#8217;s numbers were the largest ever for an AFC title game. 
The NFC Championship on Fox generated even better numbers, with the 49ers&#8217; come-from-behind 34-31 victory against the Detroit Lions recording 56 million viewers. Fox had its biggest audience for an NFC title game since the New York Giants&#8217; 20-17 win in overtime against San Francisco in 2012.
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The 2024 Grammy Awards saw a huge bump in viewership for the first time since the COVID pandemic struck four years earlier.
CBS scored 17 million viewers in final same-day ratings for Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of the 66th annual awards show, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/grammys-tv-ratings-sunday-feb-4-2024-1235816395/">according</a> to The Hollywood Reporter. It was an increase of 36% over the number of viewers who tuned in to watch the biggest night in music in 2023 when the show attracted 12.55 million viewers.
The awards show was also up by 40% in the coveted 18-49 age demographic compared to last year, the outlet noted.
The numbers on CBS don&#8217;t include those who streamed the show on Paramount+, with live viewership up 173% over last year, the network noted in a <a href="https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/the-66th-annual-grammy-awards/releases/?view=109207-the-66th-annual-grammy-awards-up-34-from-last-year-averaging-169-million-viewers-its-largest-audience-since-2020">press release</a>.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GRAMMYs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GRAMMYs</a> Ratings Surge For CBS With Big Win For Taylor Swift, Big Performances By Tracy Chapman &amp; Joni Mitchell <a href="https://t.co/r73x8We40F">https://t.co/r73x8We40F</a>
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) <a href="https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1754603760230515164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
On Sunday, the night was filled with one surprise after another, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tracy-chapmans-unforgettable-grammys-performance-singing-fast-car-with-luke-combs">Tracy Chapman</a> returning to the spotlight for the first time in more than a decade to sing her hit song &#8220;Fast Car&#8221; with country singer Luke Combs, whose more gritty version of the song blew up the charts in 2023.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/miley-cyrus-has-huge-night-wins-her-first-two-grammys-ever">Miley Cyrus</a> scored not only her first Grammy Award ever but her second as well for her song &#8220;Flowers.&#8221; It took home Best Pop Solo Performance and then Record of the Year, beating out the likes of Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, and SZA, The <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/grammys-2024-winners-list-1235809522/">Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.
There was also a surprise appearance from Grammy-winner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/celine-dion-shocks-grammy-audience-with-surprise-appearance">Celine Dion,</a> who cut her world tour short last year after being diagnosed with Stiff-Person Syndrome (SPS).
The 55-year-old <a href="https://x.com/THR/status/1754361909116076264?s=20">singer,</a> whose rare neurological disease forced her to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-not-giving-up-celine-dion-cancels-entire-world-tour-amid-disorder-battle">cancel</a> the remaining tour dates, walked onto the stage to a standing ovation.
&#8220;When I say that I&#8217;m happy to be here, I really mean it from my heart,&#8221; Dion said as she thanked the audience, calling the reception &#8220;beautiful.&#8221;
&#8220;Those who have been blessed enough to be here at the Grammy Awards must never take for granted the tremendous love and joy that music brings to our lives and to people all around the world,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And now it gives me great joy to present a Grammy Award that two legends, Diana Ross and Sting, presented to me twenty-seven years ago.&#8221;
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History was also made when Taylor Swift became the first artist to win <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-swift-makes-history-at-grammys-announces-new-album">Album of the Year</a> four times, this time for &#8220;Midnights,&#8221; which also won Best Pop Vocal Album.
The jump in Grammy Awards viewership followed that of the 2024 Golden Globes, which also experienced its first spike in the ratings game since 2020, with a 50% increase over last year.

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The NFL, Fox, and CBS have reason to celebrate after the two conference championship games scored massive ratings over the weekend, with more than 50 million viewers each, a first in the last ten years.
The AFC Championship Game on CBS featuring the Kansas City Chiefs&#8217; 17-10 victory over the Baltimore Ravens brought in 55.4 million viewers, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nfc-afc-championship-tv-ratings-sunday-jan-28-2024-1235809921/">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. CBS&#8217;s numbers were the largest ever for an AFC title game. At one point, viewership for the AFC showdown peaked at more than 64 million viewers, making Sunday&#8217;s game the most-watched non-Super Bowl program on the network in 30 years.
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NFC, AFC Championships Huge: TV Ratings Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024 – The Hollywood Reporter. The audience peaked at almost 59 million viewers (58.97 million) from 9:15-9:30 p.m. ET, late in the San Francisco 49ers’ 34-31 victory over the Detroit Lions. <a href="https://t.co/fbmq6svDV6">https://t.co/fbmq6svDV6</a>
— John DePetro Show (@JohnDePetroshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnDePetroshow/status/1752160462903316810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
The NFC Championship over on Fox generated even better numbers with the San Francisco 49ers come-from-behind 34-31 victory against the Detroit Lions, recording 56 million viewers, with the viewership hit nearly 59 million at one point. Fox had its biggest audience for an NFC title game since 2012 with the New York Giants 20-17 win in overtime against San Francisco. 
In Detroit, where Lions fans had hoped to see the team advance to its first-ever Super Bowl, the NFC title game had a 46.3 rating and 79 share.
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THR noted that the huge ratings score was the first time since 2014 that both conference championship games averaged more than 50 million viewers (out-of-home ratings weren&#8217;t part of Nielsen’s same-day reporting until 2020).
The NFL&#8217;s viewership was up over the last few years, with the numbers being the best the league has seen since 2015, <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/01/chiefs-bills-nfl-divisional-playoff-ratings-1235802215/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deadline</a> noted.
NFL games in 2023 made up 93 out of 100 of the top broadcasts of the year, that&#8217;s up from the 82 it had last year, <a href="https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/nfl-us-tv-most-watched-broadcasts-top-100-2023-super-bowl-viewership/?zephr_sso_ott=d1XSG1#:~:text=National%20Football%20League%20(NFL)%20games,top%20ten%20being%20playoff%20games." target="_blank" rel="noopener">SportsProMedia</a> noted.
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The Emmy ratings tanked for a second year, with the annual awards show suffering its worst performance ever — just 4.46 million viewers tuned in for Monday night&#8217;s show.
Broadcast on Fox, the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards show continued its decline in viewers following the decision to postpone it from its usual spot in September due to the ongoing writers&#8217; and actors&#8217; strikes in Hollywood at the time, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-monday-jan-15-2024-1235789492/">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.
The telecast brought in 4.46 million viewers — which was down from the previous low set in 2022 when the annual awards show got 5.9 million viewers, the outlet noted.
The awards show was also down in the coveted age demographic of 18-49, with a .87 rating compared to the 1.09 it got in 2022, THR noted.
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Emmy Awards get record low ratings with audience of 4.3 million people <a href="https://t.co/6SCr4jVdbw">https://t.co/6SCr4jVdbw</a>
— The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/1747385866496999661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
Besides the months-long delay for the show honoring the best of TV, the awards had to compete with a busy broadcast night. It aired directly across from the NFC Wild Card playoffs game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Tampa Bay Buccaneers that was shown on ABC and ESPN. It also fell on the same night of the Iowa caucuses and coverage of those results across the cable news channels, THR noted.
To put the 4.46 million viewership into context, the Buccaneers blowout against the Eagles garnered 28 million viewers, and the political news coverage another 4.7 million who tuned in to Fox News, MSNBC and CNN during the same broadcast time as the awards show to catch the returns, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/business/media/emmy-awards-ratings.html">The New York Times</a> noted.
Other awards shows have suffered similar drops since the pandemic, but as of late have seen a rebound. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/golden-globes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Golden Globes</a> — which had seen declining numbers for several years — experienced its first spike in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/golden-globes-see-spike-in-ratings-for-first-time-since-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ratings</a> game since 2020, with the most recent awards show scoring a 50 percent jump in viewership over last year&#8217;s dismal ratings.
With a move to the CBS network and a lead-in from the NFL, the 2024 Golden Globes averaged 9.4 million viewers, based on time zone-adjusted fast national ratings from Nielsen, according to The <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-sunday-jan-7-2024-1235782200/">Hollywood Reporter</a>.
The 2024 broadcast showed a healthy jump from the 6.25 million viewers who watched last year on NBC, marking the second-smallest audience in the network&#8217;s 28 years of broadcasting the awards show.
The 2024 Emmys are already set to take place later this year when it will be broadcast in September on ABC, the Times noted.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/audience-response-makes-it-clear-golden-globe-viewers-want-ricky-gervais-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Golden Globes</a> experienced its first spike in the ratings game since 2020 as the annual awards show on Sunday had a 50 percent over last year&#8217;s dismal viewership.
With a move to the CBS network and a lead-in from the NFL, the Golden Globes averaged 9.4 million viewers, based on time zone-adjusted fast national ratings from Nielsen, according to The <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-sunday-jan-7-2024-1235782200/">Hollywood Reporter</a>.
The 2024 show was up from the 6.25 million viewers who watched last year on NBC, marking the second-smallest audience in the network&#8217;s 28 years of broadcasting the awards show.
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ngl i never found Jo Koy funny and what he said at the golden globe was actually why the barbie movie was made, because of sexist comments like those. It has come out that even the cast hated the joke and I understand why, never hand this man a mic again. <a href="https://t.co/qV8aiFb2Ij">pic.twitter.com/qV8aiFb2Ij</a>
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Last year&#8217;s show barely beat the worst-rated televised show in 2008, when a press conference was held in place of the star-studded event amid a writers strike.
The NFL lead-in of the Buffalo Bills beating the Miami Dolphins 21-14 helped the awards show numbers, THR noted. 
While the higher ratings are a reason for CBS to celebrate, the numbers are still way below pre-pandemic viewership. To put the 9.4 million viewers into context, the Golden Globes previously pulled in an <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-sunday-jan-7-2024-1235782200/">average</a> of nearly 19 million viewers between 2008 and 2019, the Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-01-08/golden-globe-awards-9-4-million-viewers-cbs-robert-downey-jo-koy">noted</a>.
Despite the improvement in the ratings, viewers took to social media and widely panned the 2024 host Jo Koy. 
&#8220;&#8216;Oppenheimer&#8217; and &#8216;Barbie&#8217; are competing for cinematic box office achievement,&#8221; Koy said from the stage on Sunday. &#8220;&#8216;Oppenheimer&#8217; is based on a 724-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and &#8216;Barbie&#8217; is based on a plastic doll with big boobies.&#8221;
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His comments fell flat with the performers in the room and viewers at home. Koy <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/08/jo-koy-golden-globes-host-reaction-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the criticism and online backlash, saying, &#8220;You know, it was a moment that I&#8217;ll always remember. It&#8217;s a tough room.&#8221;
&#8220;It was a hard job, I&#8217;m not going to lie … I&#8217;d be lying if [I said] it doesn&#8217;t hurt … Hosting is just a tough gig,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Yes, I&#8217;m a standup comic but that hosting position it&#8217;s a different style. I kind of went in and did the writers&#8217; thing. We had ten days to write this monologue. It was a crash course. I feel bad, but I got to still say I loved what I did.”
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Ratings for the fourth Republican presidential debate held on Wednesday dropped to the lowest numbers so far this primary season with a 47% decrease in viewership from the previous debate. 
With the party’s frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, skipping each of the GOP debates, viewership has consistently fallen since the first Republican faceoff held on August 23 on Fox News, which attracted 12.8 million viewers. The second debate, held a month later on Fox Business, drew 9.5 million viewers, and the third debate on NBC was watched by 7.5 million people. The downward trend continued Wednesday night as 4.1 million people tuned into the most recent Republican debate on NewsNation, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/12/07/41m-people-watch-fourth-republican-presidential-debate">reported</a>. 
While the debate marked the lowest ratings for this Republican primary cycle, it set a record for NewsNation, an outlet that debuted in 2021. NewsNation attracted 1.6 million people to its coverage of the debate, the largest audience in the network’s young history, <a href="https://www.nexstar.tv/newsnation-and-the-cw-network-deliver-more-than-4-million-viewers-for-gop-presidential-primary-debate/">according</a> to Nexstar Media Group, which owns NewsNation. Another 2.5 million people watched the debate on the CW’s simulcast, another subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group. 
“NewsNation was incredibly honored to host last night’s debate, and we are very pleased that so many viewers tuned-in and watched,” said Sean Compton, the president of Networks for Nexstar Media. “This debate represents a remarkable achievement for a cable news network that is just barely three years old. We’re very proud of the NewsNation team, the great job done by the moderators, and the overall production. In the end, the real winners last night were the nation’s voters.”
The NewsNation debate featured a narrowing field of Republican candidates, with only four candidates qualifying for the stage. Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, Washington Free Beacon Editor-in-Chief Eliana Johnson, and NewsNation anchor Elizabeth Vargas moderated the debate, which showcased Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. 
Wednesday’s debate ratings came up just shy of the debate last week between DeSantis and Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) that was moderated by Fox News host Sean Hannity, which garnered nearly <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/12/desantis-newsom-debate-ratings-fox-news-1235648926/">five million</a> viewers. The NewsNation debate did, however, beat out Hannity’s town hall with Trump that aired on Tuesday and attracted <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-channels-hannity-trump-town-hall-scores-3-2-million-viewers">3.2 million</a> viewers. 
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Hours after the fourth GOP debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, had finished, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/07/politics/cnn-gop-presidential-primary-debates-2024/index.html?Date=20231207&amp;Profile=CNN&amp;utm_content=1701967085&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">announced</a> that it will host two more debates in January, one in Iowa on January 10 — five days before the Iowa caucuses, and another in New Hampshire on January 21, just two days before the New Hampshire primary.

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Ratings for the third Republican presidential <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsnation-will-host-next-gop-debate-megyn-kelly-to-co-moderate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debate</a> on NBC fell even further than the viewership for the second GOP debate and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morgan-wallen-nominated-for-album-of-the-year-banned-from-attending-country-music-awards-over-leaked-n-word-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Country Music Awards</a> (CMA) just barely missed scoring its worst showing ever.
Nielsen data released on Thursday show that the showdown between the five Republican presidential hopefuls brought in 7.5 million viewers on the network compared to the 9.5 million people who tuned in to Fox News, Fox Business, and Univision on September 27, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-wednesday-nov-8-2023-1235643419/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hollywood Reporter</a>.
The debate, while it was also broadcast on Peacock and other streaming and digital platforms, was not broadcast on NBC&#8217;s sister stations CNBC or MSNBC. The numbers show the viewership not only fell from the second debate where people tuned in to hear what the then-seven GOP candidates had to say, but dramatically from the nearly 13 million who tuned in to watch the first GOP primary debate in August.
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To put that into further context, the interest from American people was much higher in 2015 when nearly 24 million people tuned in to watch the first GOP primary debate held by Fox News and the second one, which was hosted by CNN, scored 22.9 million people, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/business/media/republican-debate-ratings.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> noted.
These ratings for the five remaining Republican presidential hopefuls Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and businessmen Vivek Ramaswamy, can&#8217;t be good news for the five who spent the two hours trying to have a breakout moment in hopes of knocking out the current front-runner, former President Donald Trump.
Over on the ABC network, the 2023 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wynonna-judd-addresses-fan-concerns-after-her-shaky-cma-appearance-with-jelly-roll-i-could-cry-right-now" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CMA Awards</a> viewership was down by 10 percent over the previous year, with an average of 6.84 million tuning in to find which of their favorite country music artists would be honored. Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast not only fell in the ratings from the 2022 award show, but managed to barely beat out the lowest viewership ever for the CMA&#8217;s which happened in 2015 when the awards show scored an all-time low of 6.83 million.
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The ratings for the country music awards show also plummeted in the coveted age demographic of adults 18-49, with a record low of 0.9, falling below a 1.0 for the first time, THR noted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ratings-tanked-for-second-republican-primary-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ratings Tanked For Second Republican Primary Debate</a>

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The NFL scored some monster ratings for its &#8220;Sunday Night Football&#8221; game on Sunday when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-swift-announces-eras-tour-concert-movie-coming-to-theaters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Swift</a> showed up to watch rumored boyfriend <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/travis-kelce-speaks-out-after-taylor-swift-attends-chiefs-game-amid-dating-rumors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Travis Kelce&#8217;s</a> Chiefs take on the New York Jets in New York.
The showdown and ultimate 23-20 victory by Kansas City over the Jets in the final minutes of the game gave NBC its largest audience so far this season, with an average of nearly 27 million viewers across all its platforms, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-sunday-oct-1-2023-1235606571/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nielsen and Adobe Analytics</a> provided by NBC Sports.
In the coveted demographic for advertisers of ages 18-49, the network experienced an increase of 24 percent and in women ages 35 and up the audience jumped by another 34 percent. In females ages 12-17 the viewership spiked over the previous three &#8220;Sunday Night Football&#8221; broadcasts by a whopping 53 percent.
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The Taylor Swift impact: Viewership among teen girls (age 12-17) spiked 53% from the season-to-date average of the first three weeks of SNF, while the audience among women aged 18-24 was up 24%, and women 35+ increased 34%, per Nielsen.
The combined growth led to an approximate… <a href="https://t.co/usj0bev2Ah">https://t.co/usj0bev2Ah</a>
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And the reason more women tuned in to watch the game between the Chiefs and the Jets is believed to be because of the presence of Swift — who showed up to the game to watch Kelce along with her pack of star-studded pals like Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Sophie Turner, and Hugh Jackman, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-sunday-oct-1-2023-1235606571/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.
Swift&#8217;s presence meant a spike of some 2 million female viewers who tuned in to watch the broadcast and most undoubtedly catch anything the &#8220;Shake It Off&#8221; hitmaker was doing and try to analyze any looks between Kelce and the pop singer to prove the dating rumors, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/02/media/taylor-swift-sunday-night-football-ratings-reliable-sources/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> noted.
The telecast saw an average of 24.83 million viewers, marking a 19 percent improvement compared to the same time in 2022. While it was the TV-only audience highest watched game of the 2023 season,  across all platforms viewership fell from the season opener&#8217;s 27.5 million viewers, when the Chiefs played the Detroit Lions on Thursday night Sept. 7, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nfl-week-1-2023-tv-ratings-1235587742/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">THR</a> noted.
NBC says thanks to Sunday&#8217;s game streaming on NBC Sports, Peacock, and NFL Digital platforms, 1.85 million viewers watched the game, making it the network&#8217;s largest streaming audience ever for a regular-season game on Sunday, the outlet noted.
Swift&#8217;s presence marked her second such appearance at an NFL game so far this season. The first was when she shocked fans and showed up in Kelce&#8217;s suite in Kansas City — sitting next to his mom Donna Kelce last week — when the Chiefs came away with a huge victory against the Chicago Bears 41-10.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/travis-kelce-on-taylor-swift-dating-rumors-threw-the-ball-in-her-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Travis Kelce On Taylor Swift Dating Rumors: &#8216;Threw The Ball In Her Court&#8217;</a>
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“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">The Last of Us</a>” season finale aired Sunday night at the same time as the 95th <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars">Academy Awards</a>, but that competition did nothing to affect its viewership.
The popular <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hbo-max">HBO Max</a> drama attracted an audience of 8.2 million <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ratings">viewers</a> for its season 1 finale on March 12, a record high for the series. Warner Brothers Discovery reported that the first six episodes are now averaging 30.4 million viewers, including initial views and streaming over time. 
“The Last of Us” has become the most-watched HBO Max series in the network’s history in Europe, per <a href="https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/the-last-of-us-season-1-finale-ratings-viewers-1235551465/">Variety</a>. It’s still outranked by “House of the Dragon” in the United States.
Meanwhile, the Academy Awards boasted its highest viewership since 2020 but still failed to get anywhere close to pre-pandemic numbers. The ABC broadcast earned an average of 18.7 million viewers for the evening.
This isn’t the first time the series competed with a major awards show for views. Episode 4, “Please Hold to My Hand,” earned 7.5 million viewers while airing at the same time as the Grammys on February 5, a record at the time. 
HBO Max did not attempt to compete with the Super Bowl on February 12, opting to release that week’s new episode two days early.
“The Last of Us” was already renewed for a second season, and there are rumors of a third. The zombie apocalypse show is based on the video game of the same name, and series creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann have already hinted that the events of the second part of the game could merit two seasons to explore. 
Like season 1, the next installment of “The Last of Us” will rely heavily on the game’s narrative for content but will also divert from gameplay at the creators’ discretion.
Mazin said during a virtual press conference this week that season 2 &#8220;will be different&#8221; from Part II of the game. 
&#8220;It will be different just as this season was different [from the first game],&#8221; he said, per <a href="https://ew.com/tv/the-last-of-us-season-2-bella-ramsey-time-jump/">Entertainment Weekly</a>. &#8220;Sometimes it will be different radically, and sometimes it will be [barely] different at all. But it&#8217;s going to be different and it will be its own thing. It won&#8217;t be exactly like the game. It will be the show that Neil and I want to make.”

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'The Last Of Us' Finale Draws 8.2 Million Viewers, A Series High, Despite Oscars Competition

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The 2023 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars">Oscars</a> show got its first bump in the ratings since the 2020 broadcast of the annual event, but it still failed to get anywhere close to the numbers the show had before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fans tuned in to see what would happen when the 95th Academy Awards were broadcast from Los Angeles on Sunday, with the ABC show scoring an average of 18.7 million viewers, according to Nielsen data, the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-03-13/audience-for-abcs-telecast-of-the-oscars-is-largest-since-2020">Los Angeles Times</a> reported.
The ratings for the star-studded event held at the Dolby Theater are up 12% over the the numbers from the year before. It was the best showing for tinseltown&#8217;s biggest night since 2020, when the show brought in an audience of 23.6 million.
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TV Ratings: Oscars Rise to Three-Year High <a href="https://t.co/kOXKKwA9DU">https://t.co/kOXKKwA9DU</a>
&mdash; The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1635401491677691915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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To put Sunday&#8217;s numbers into context, the 2022 Oscars averaged 16.7 million viewers, going up 58% over the telecast&#8217;s all-time low in 2021 of 10.5 million viewers.
The 94th Academy Awards ratings explosion was most likely aided by images and reports that surfaced on social media of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/will-smith">Will Smith</a> walking up on stage and slapping <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chris-rock">Chris Rock</a> in the face, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/will-smith-struck-chris-rock-in-the-face-at-oscars-after-he-cracked-a-joke-about-jada-pinkett-smiths-hair-loss">reported</a>.
However, Sunday&#8217;s numbers for ABC are still dismal compared to the show pre-pandemic in 2019 which had nearly 30 million people tune in to watch their favorite stars and see which films would win.
The outlet noted that the 2023 Oscars seemed more upbeat than the annual awards show since the pandemic shut down Hollywood and the world.
&#8220;Indiana Jones&#8221; star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/indiana-jones-actor-ke-huy-quan-gets-emotional-during-golden-globes-acceptance-speech">Ke Huy Quan</a> scored an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the sci-fi movie &#8220;Everything Everywhere All At Once.&#8221; After being named winner, the actor gave an inspirational acceptance speech about the American Dream, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oscar-winner-ke-huy-quan-gets-emotional-about-the-american-dream">reported</a>.
&#8220;My mom is 84 years old and she’s at home watching,&#8221; Quan told the room full of stars Sunday night. &#8220;Mom, I just won an Oscar!&#8221;
&#8220;My journey started on a boat,&#8221;  the Vietnam-born actor added. &#8220;I spent a year in a refugee camp, and somehow, I ended up here, on Hollywood&#8217;s biggest stage. They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe it&#8217;s happening to me. This … this is the American Dream!&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/indiana-jones-actor-ke-huy-quan-gets-emotional-during-golden-globes-acceptance-speech">&#8216;Indiana Jones&#8217; Actor Ke Huy Quan Gets Emotional During Golden Globes Acceptance Speech</a>

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Four-time Super Bowl champion and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw, who has suffered from bladder cancer and a Merkel cell tumor, broke up reporters covering the Super Bowl by joking about dying live on air.
Bradshaw has served as a Fox NFL Sunday co-host since 1994 after having won four Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s.
“I told Fox if I could just die on the show, think about the ratings, right?” Bradshaw quipped to reporters. “Are we not about ratings? That&#8217;d be huge. Not only that, it&#8217;d be a huge carryover. All the networks would be saying that Bradshaw died on the Fox NFL show. Can you imagine the huge stuff? And maybe I get a statue out front.”
“I want to do it, if I keep my health together, I love what I&#8217;m doing,” Bradshaw said then added, “But we all get old. We all get kicked out. I&#8217;m not looking over my shoulder, but Brady is coming in.”
Bradshaw referred to Tom Brady, who was <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/10/tom-brady-gets-monster-10-year-375-million-deal-from-fox-sports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> given a $375 million, 10-year contract by Fox Sports.
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Terry Bradshaw, national treasure, with thoughts on his career, mortality, etc.: “I told Fox, if I could just die on the show &#8212; think about the ratings, right? I mean, are we not about ratings? That&#39;d be huge. Not only that, it&#39;d be a huge carry-over. …” <a href="https://t.co/SHNwLHPpU7">pic.twitter.com/SHNwLHPpU7</a>
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“It won&#8217;t be easy,” Bradshaw advised Brady, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-11728621/NFL-legend-FOX-broadcaster-Terry-Bradshaw-74-jokes-DYING-air-ahead-Super-Bowl.html">The Daily Mail</a>. “The problem with Tom is the whole world is gonna watch. Everyone wants to see how he does. Tom will put the work in. TV is me and you. I&#8217;m talking to you. I&#8217;m not gonna talk over your head [or] below you. I&#8217;m gonna talk right to you. We&#8217;re gonna have some fun. We&#8217;re gonna keep it simple. We&#8217;re gonna have a good visit today. That&#8217;s television. The quicker he can learn that, and relax [the better he&#8217;ll be].”
On October 2, Bradshaw responded to fans who derogated him for appearing out of breath the week before.
“I couldn’t breathe,” he reflected. “That’s when everybody notices. ‘What’s wrong with him?’ Social media went, ‘Get rid of him. He needs to be off the air. He’s an embarrassment.’ And I was like, &#8216;Embarrassment? I got cancer.&#8217;”
“I didn’t talk about it because I didn’t want pity,” Bradshaw said on NBC’s <a href="https://www.today.com/health/exclusive-terry-bradshaw-waited-year-publicly-share-cancer-diagnoses-rcna55132">Today</a>. “I didn’t talk about it because a lot of celebrities — unfortunately, I’m one of those — when they say this, I think the perception around America with all the millions of people is, ‘Aw, look at him. Bless his heart. He has cancer. Well, my husband died of cancer! My kids are…’ I didn’t want that. It took a long time before I told my family.”
“I wasn’t scared,” Bradshaw told NBC’s Harry Smith of the initial diagnosis.
“Really?” Smith reacted.
“No. You know what, Harry? I don’t know why; I never was scared,” Bradshaw replied.
“I mean, you’re Terry Bradshaw. You’re bigger than life,” Smith told him.
“Well, cancer didn’t think so,” Bradshaw laughed. “I don’t think cancer cares. Listen, cancer shows no favoritism.”
Bradshaw cited his Christian faith as the source of his strength in dealing with the disease, declaring, “As a man of faith, as a Christian, my attitude was, well, if I go, I’m okay. If I stay, I’m okay.”
He had been treated for his bladder cancer, first diagnosed in November 2021, and was pronounced clear of it before he began experiencing “nerve pain in my neck and my shoulder.” He recalled thinking, “I have injured my neck before, so this is not uncommon.”
A tumor was discovered that required removal; Bradshaw admitted that he initially kept his cancer secret from his family. But he praised his wife, saying, “I can’t put into words how thankful I am for her. Seriously. I can’t imagine not holding her hand when we take off on a plane or when we land or when we snuggle up when we’re in bed together. I look at her and she doesn’t know I’m looking at her, and I’m so thankful now I’m getting emotional.”

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