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TV Ratings: Tony Awards Viewership on CBS Plummets to Less Than 3 Million Viewers

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After a hiatus, the Tony Awards came back, but the siren song of Broadway’s biggest and best wasn’t enough to hype TV audiences.
After almost a two-year hiatus, the Tony Awards came back, but the siren song of Broadway’s biggest and best wasn’t enough to draw a large TV audience. The 9-11 p.m. portion of the Tony Awards that aired on CBS tanked, drawing only 2.62 million viewers per Nielsen’s time-adjusted and corrected Live+Same Day fast overnights and scoring just an 0.4 rating in the key 18-49 demographic. For comparison, the 2019 awards ceremony hosted by “Late Late Show’s” James Corden scored a 0.8 rating in the key demo and fell below 6 million total viewers with just under 5.

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