Emmy Awards ratings squeak past last year's
By attracting just a few thousand more viewers than CBS did last year, NBC can claim bragging rights for the highest rated of the four airings by the broadcast networks on this rotation of the Emmy Awards wheel. The telecast attracted 13.5 million viewers, as compared with last year's total of 13.47 million.
Because of the peacock network's ongoing commitment to the NFL, the Emmys were once again pushed up into late August, rather than the traditional date in mid-September. While the overall TV audience is smaller at this time of the summer, the competition is also of a lower wattage.
9/20/09 - CBS - 8.7 rating/14 share (13.47 million)
9/21/08 - ABC - 8.2/13 (12.3 million)
9/16/07 - FOX - 8.4 /14 (12.9 million)
8/27/06 - NBC - 10.6/17 (16.1 million)
9/18/05 - CBS - 12.5/20 (13.7 million)
9/19/04 - ABC - 9.4/15 (13.7 million)
9/21/03 - FOX - 11.8/19 (17.9 million)
9/22/02 - NBC - 13.5/21 (19.9 million)
11/4/01 - CBS - 11.4/16 (17.1 million)
9/10/00 - ABC - 14.2/23 (21.7 million)
9/12/99 - FOX - 11.7/19 (17.4 million)
9/13/98 - NBC - 13.6/23 (19.3 million)
9/14/97 - CBS - 13.5/21 (18.7 million)
9/8/96 - ABC - 14.4/23 (20.5 million)
Image: 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards logo. Credit: ATAS
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The Emmys are a joke. I like "Mad Men", but the 6th season of "Lost" was superior on every level. Terry O' Quinn is the best actor working on the small screen and his performance this last season of "lost" was second to none, yet he got snubbed. The ratings suck because the emmys suck, just like the oscars, grammys, and the rock n' roll hall of shame.
Posted by: johnny rotten | September 02, 2010 at 09:40 PM
what a waste this show was. to bad so dull!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: george | August 31, 2010 at 04:47 PM
No one really cares about these over-paid, self indulgent narcissists.
Posted by: CCMar | August 31, 2010 at 11:42 AM
Bill needs to be fired, him and his sick attitude jokes about others and life in general, he need real work like driving a truck and getting his hands dirty to know what real work is, and where money comes from, and then he can join his gay buddies at the bar for a drink
Posted by: frank carter | August 31, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Interesting change in the precision of the numbers shown. If there was consistency if only showing 1 digit after the decimal, last year's audience would be shown as 13.5 million. Lucky for NBC, last year's number goes out to 2 decimal places so it's CLEAR that this year's number is larger. Hooray.
Posted by: rupert | August 30, 2010 at 08:16 PM