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[quote=Anonymous]Most award shows are seeing declining viewership - that's not new.

The Oscars always makes me shake my head - there's all this angst about why the oscars don't have great ratings, and it's because people watch things that are entertaining.  Watching celebrities win awards is entertaining.  Watching the costume designer and all the other non celebrity awards be awarded is simply not as entertaining.  It's just not.  The Oscars know this - a few years back they tried to cram the non celebrity awards into a weird presentations style (they did'nt let winners come t othe podium or something? I don't remember exactly).  But that's the problem - they are pretentious and overly bloated but when they try to cut out bits people complain bitterly.

The grammys are worth watching because of the music - and a bunch of awards are given out not on TV.

The other thing about the Oscars no one wants to admit is that the ratings are higher when wildly popular movies win big.  IE, higher ratings the year Titantic wn most awards, same with the Lord of the Rings.

People say having a wide range of nominees and winners show the medium as a whole is strong.  Ok, sure.  Yes, a lot of good stuff out there.  But when there is a widening gap between what the public is seeing and what is actually winning, ratings slide down even further.  When the 'oscar buzz movies' barely even come out in 2025, or are already preordained befoe they even come out and are vetted by a public (not just critics), there's a disconnect. Who cares.

Both of these things are unsolveable on their own, so ratings will continue to decline until everything is only streaming and then raitings will be even lower, but we won't know it.  [/quote]

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