The Emmys brought an average 6.87 million viewers to ABC on Sunday night, a 54% rise in total viewers from the record-low 4.3 million who tuned into the most recent ceremony on Fox at the start of this year.
In the key adults 18-49 ratings, the telecast averaged a 1.02 rating, up 17% from 0.87 in January.
Per ABC, the 76th Emmys telecast posted the award show’s largest overall audience in there years, since its 2021 airing on CBS. It also outperformed ABC’s previous airing by 8% in total viewers, vs. the COVID virtual telecast in 2020 (6.
39 million). RELATED: Emmys Producers Explain Why Jeremy Allen White Was Bleeped, Playing Off John Oliver During His Dog Tribute, That Awkward Johnnie Walker Ad and More The January Emmys struggled for viewership, having been postponed from their original September 2023 date due to the Hollywood strikes and forced to air against an NFL playoff game. The most recent “typical” Emmys ceremony in September 2022 brought in 5.
9 million viewers — which was considered a flop at the time, a 25% drop from 2021’s 7.4 million . The good news for Sunday’s telecast is that it was able to beat that.
Sunday’s show did air in competition with the NFL, though the Texans-Bears game was of a much lower profile than the playoff game that drew viewers away from the Emmys in January. Disney’s recent dispute with DirecTV, which caused a two-week blackout of Disney-owned stations for DirectTV customers, was originally predicted to impact Emmy viewer.