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Television ratings up for Oscars, to 40.3M people

The Oscars telecast was seen by 40.3 million people, a slight increase over last year's show....

 

TV Ratings: Oscars Posterized NBA All-Stars

The Artist Picks Up Best Picture at the Oscars

Because of the shorten NBA season caused by the lockout, this is the first time the telecast of the NBA All-Star game went head-to-head with the 84th Academy Awards. I thought the basketball game would get crushed, even with Linsanity in attendance - technically, he was only in the Rising Stars Challenge which took place on Friday.

Who’s bright idea was it to go head-to-head with one of the biggest tv events of the year? Couldn’t the NBA have done it the week before or after the Oscars? Maybe TNT, which televised the game, thought it’s good counter-programming.

 

Oscars 2012 ratings: About 39 million viewers, slightly up from last year

More than 39 million people watched Sunday’s “84th Annual Academy Awards,” Sunday, in which host Billy Crystal waxed nostalgic, a silent movie cleaned up, Angelina Jolie’s leg kept hogging the camera and Jennifer Lopez left nipple played hide-and-seek.

 

Oscar ratings slip 7% as critics scorn hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco

Many critics dissed the hosting combo of James Franco and Anne Hathaway, but considering that the ceremony lacked a huge crowd-pleasing nominee such as last year's "Avatar," Sunday's 83rd Academy Awards telecast on ABC held up pretty well in the ratings.

 

Early ratings show Oscars up over last year

Early indications are that an Academy Awards telecast where "The Hurt Locker" topped the popular "Avatar" for best picture was popular with viewers.

 

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