NEW YORK (AP) — Will Smith’s violent slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards appeared to have a negligible affect on the show’s television audience. But the world of social media is a considerably various tale.
ABC explained there had been some 22.7 million social media interactions all through Sunday’s ceremony — the most ever for an Oscars telecast and additional than double the 9.5 million recorded from last year’s present.
What do you suppose anyone was tweeting or putting up about?
The network suggests Oscar movies notched 16 million sights on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, also a file for the show. ABC does not have any specifics about what movie clips ended up most preferred, a spokeswoman explained on Tuesday.
The telecast as a full drew 16.6 million viewers, up 58% from the 2021 clearly show that was dramatically scaled again due to the pandemic, the Nielsen organization mentioned. Nevertheless this year’s present was down 30% from the a lot more typical 2020 broadcast, which had been the 2nd-smallest viewers.
Nielsen actions viewership in 15-minute increments, and the 17.3 million viewers through the quarter-hour when Smith’s assault took location was practically similar to the quarter-hour that followed.
Then the viewers dipped to 16.8 million ahead of rising to 17.4 million through the interval Smith received his most effective actor award, Nielsen claimed.
Led by its NCAA men’s basketball tourney coverage, CBS gained the 7 days with an normal of 6.2 million in key time. Irrespective of boasting the Oscars, ABC was next with 5 million. NBC had 2.28 million, Fox experienced 2.27 million, Univision had 1.5 million, Ion Tv experienced 1.1 million and Telemundo experienced 960,000.
TBS, also boosted by the NCAAs, led the cable networks with an regular of 2.81 million in key time. Fox News Channel experienced 2.47 million, MSNBC experienced 1.12 million, HGTV experienced 1.11 million and CNN had 876,000.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” led the night news ratings race with an typical of 8.3 million viewers last 7 days. NBC’s “Nightly News” averaged 6.8 million and the “CBS Evening News” experienced 4.9 million.
For the week of March 21-27, the 20 most-viewed programs in primary time, their networks and viewerships:
1. “The Academy Awards,” ABC, 16.62 million.
2. NCAA Men’s Basketball Match: Arkansas vs. Duke, TBS, 10.34 million
3. NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: St. Peter’s vs. Purdue, CBS, 10.18 million.
4. NCAA Men’s Basketball Match: North Carolina vs. UCLA, CBS, 8.82 million.
5. NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: Texas Tech vs. Duke, CBS, 8.23 million.
6. NCAA Men’s Basketball Event: Arkansas vs. Gonzaga, CBS, 8.16 million.
7. “NCAA Pregame” (Saturday), TBS, 8.04 million.
8. “FBI,” CBS, 8.02 million.
9. “NCAA Pregame” (Thursday), CBS, 7.93 million.
10. “Live From the Red Carpet” (7:27 to 8 p.m.), ABC, 7.73 million.
11. “NCAA Pregame” (Friday), CBS, 7.3 million.
12. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.29 million.
13. NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: Houston vs. Villanova, TBS, 7.1 million.
14. “NCIS,” CBS, 6.65 million.
15. “FBI: Intercontinental,” CBS, 6.11 million.
16. “FBI: Most Wanted,” CBS, 5.79 million.
17. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 5.72 million.
18. “Live From the Red Carpet” (6:58 to 7:27 p.m.), ABC, 5.45 million.
19. “Bob Hearts Abishola,” CBS, 5.39 million.
20. “Survivor,” CBS, 5.35 million.
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