{"id":160337,"date":"2025-09-16T07:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160337\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:23:06","slug":"emmys-2025-ratings-grow-for-best-viewership-since-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160337\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmys 2025: Ratings grow for best viewership since 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Ratings for the Emmy Awards<\/a> have continued their climb from all-time lows as the television industry looks to shake off the shake-ups of recent years.<\/p>\n

About 7.42 million viewers tuned in to watch the Nate Bargatze<\/a> -hosted 77th Primetime Emmy Awards<\/a> on CBS, according to Nielsen company data released Monday by the network. The night\u2019s big winners were \u201cThe Studio,\u201d \u201cAdolescence,\u201d \u201cThe Pitt\u201d and late-night host Stephen Colbert, who got a huge outpouring of support from the Peacock Theater audience.<\/p>\n

It was the most-watched Emmys telecast since 2021, and was up 8% from the 6.87 million that watched the \u201cShogun\u201d-dominated ABC telecast<\/a> in September 2024.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s show was up more than 70% from the all-time low of 4.3 million from the Fox telecast of January 2024, which was delayed by months because of Hollywood\u2019s writers and actors strikes.<\/p>\n

The Emmys telecast rotates annually between the four broadcast networks.<\/p>\n

The pandemic brought its own all-time low. The Emmys in 2020<\/a> on ABC, with no in-person audience and remote nominees attracted 6.1 million viewers<\/a>. The show bounced back the following year with 7.4 million<\/a> for CBS with help from an NFL game lead-in.<\/p>\n

But NBC\u2019s 2022 telecast dropped to 5.9 million, followed by the further dip in early 2024.<\/p>\n

Sunday night\u2019s telecast also had football as a lead-in in some regions of the West, but had to compete against a national game on NBC. The Emmy Awards have had to consistently compete with the NFL \u2014 by far the biggest force in broadcast and cable television ratings \u2014 in a way that no other awards show faces.<\/p>\n

The Emmys lag well behind comparable shows, bringing less than half the viewers of the Oscars or Grammys and significantly fewer than the Golden Globes. <\/p>\n

Like the Oscars, the show has had to reckon with prestige nominees that bring with them buzz but not big audiences. In the 1990s \u201cSeinfeld\u201d and \u201cER\u201d were drawing massive viewer numbers along with their Emmy tallies in a way that \u201cThe Studio\u201d and \u201cThe Pitt\u201d do not. <\/p>\n

Bargatze made a joke of the phenomenon in his show-opening sketch with \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d cast members, in which he played TV inventor Philo T. Farnsworth predicting the future of the medium.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe shows that win an Emmy will achieve the highest level of artistry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd will have the most viewers,\u201d scene partner Mikey Day said. <\/p>\n

\u201cNot even close,\u201d Bargatze replied. \u201cMost people will watch football and \u2018Yellowstone.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The last Emmys to reach more than 10 million viewers was 2018, when it drew in 10.2 million. The show had nearly 22 million viewers in 2000, a level it\u2019s unlikely ever to hit again given the vast and fractured entertainment environment.<\/p>\n

But interest remains.<\/p>\n

About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say they\u2019ve watched an awards show<\/a>, clips or both in the last year, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Ratings for the Emmy Awards have continued their climb from all-time lows as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2356,11643,88,793,95955,3784,10674,1505,795],"class_list":["post-160337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-california","tag-emmy-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-mikey-day","tag-nate-bargatze","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-television","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}