LOL
Many viewers have jumped ship. Huge drop in TV ratings over the past 5-7 years from 40 mil viewers down to 10-15 mil
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The show drew an average of 15.3 million viewers for ABC on Sunday, according to early Nielsen numbers. That's a 56% increase from last year's show, the lowest-rated Oscars ever, which brought in just under 10 million viewers.
That's welcome news for the Academy and ABC, but Sunday's ratings was still the second-smallest audience for the show in history. Just eight years ago, the Oscars brought in more than 40 million viewers.