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Originally Posted by Mick
No it’s more to do with the Oscars getting more political, same with the NFL, their viewing ratings are way down as well. If these shows are going to continue down this path of alienating the other half of the country because of who they voted for, their ratings are just going to keep on tanking.
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That's what Trump and people say but traditional viewing of television has been declining across most program types (apart from News it seems). The NFL went down. But then so has
NASCAR which isn't political. The Winter Olympics had the
lower viewing figures too and again not much politics there. Grammys had their lowest year too.
Over the last 10 years TV viewing has plummeted:
http://adage.com/article/media/ratings/303574/
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"The numbers have shrunk so much in the last 10 years that you almost have to put the 'broad' in 'broadcast' in air quotes," said one TV buyer. "Between the fragmentation and all the time-shifting, there are almost no big-reach vehicles left, unless you have the money to spend on football."
For the fourth year in a row, every Big Four broadcast network will finish the season with less than a 3.0 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds. Only two returning broadcast shows have grown this season: CBS's "60 Minutes," up 7%, and sophomore NBC sitcom "The Carmichael Show," up 9%, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data.
Meanwhile, some of last season's strongest performers have suffered the greatest declines, including NBC's "The Blacklist" (down 38% in live-plus-same-day ratings), ABC's "How to Get Away With Murder" (down 37%), Fox's "Gotham" (down 33%) and CBS's "Scorpion" (down 22%). All told, 30 returning broadcast series saw their ratings in their network's demographic targets drop by at least 20%.
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Not everything is about Trump. Plus as I said this isn't new to the Oscars, they've always been liberal, I remember the outrage when they were having at go at the Iraq war.....