Primetime Ratings: Big Drop for Oscars on ABC

ABC won Sunday prime ratings thanks to the Oscars. The Oscars did a 5.3 rating in viewers 18-49, with 23.6 million total viewers. It was a precipitous fall from the 2019 Oscars numbers. Last year, the Oscars did a 7.7, with 29.6 million total viewers.

It was the 92nd Academy Awards airing on ABC. Parasite, from Bong Joon-ho, got best picture and three other trophies. The event happened at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Every other network was playing for scraps. CBS and NBC did a 0.4/2. CBS had 60 Minutes at 0.5 and then repeats. Last week’s 60 Minutes, on Super Bowl Sunday, did a 0.2.

NBC had reruns of America’s Got Talent and Ellen’s Game of Games.

Telemundo had a 0.3/2 and Univision a 0.3/1. Telemundo had Exatlón Estados Unidos for two hours at 0.3 and 0.4, same as it did two weeks ago, a Sunday with no Super Bowl. Two hours of La Voz got a 0.3, down a tenth.

On Univision, Aquí y Ahora went up 33% to 0.4 and two hours of Mira Quién Baila All Stars and then Cronicas both got a 0.3. Mira lost a tenth and Crónicas was flat.

The CW was at 0.1/1 with reruns of Batwoman and Supergirl

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.