Emmys Ratings Hit a 3-Year High, Up 54% From January Telecast

The second Emmy Awards telecast of this year delivered 6.87 million total viewers, ABC announced on Monday, marking a three-year high for the annual awards show. That number represents a whopping 54% improvement on the all-time low delivered by January’s Hollywood strikes-delayed ceremony.

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Sunday night’s telecast also earned a 1.02 rating in the key 18-49 demo, which is up 17% from January’s ceremony. Hosted by the father-son team of Eugene and Dan Levy, ABC’s Emmys broadcast earned an average TVLine reader grade of “C+” ( read our own review here ).

FX’s Shōgun racked up the most wins (with 18), followed by FX/Hulu’s The Bear (11), Netflix’s Baby Reindeer and NBC’s Saturday Night Live (six each), and the Disney+ documentary Jim Henson Idea Man (five).

Fox‘s Jan. 15 broadcast of the strikes-delayed 75th Primetime Emmy Awards had averaged 4.5 million viewers, down 24% from the September 2022 ceremony to mark an all-time audience low for TV’s starriest night. (The September 2022 Emmys had drawn just 5.92 million viewers opposite the most-watched Monday Night Football game since 2009.)

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This past January’s Emmys ceremony, which was delayed four months due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, itself faced significant competition in the form of the Philadelphia Eagles-Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL playoff game (which drew more than 16 million viewers on ABC alone) and news coverage of the Iowa Caucus (which had a cable news audience of 4.7 million).

The last time the Emmys built audience was in 2021, when CBS’ Cedric the Entertainer-hosted ceremony drew 7.4 million viewers, up 16% from 2020 and hitting the brakes on a seven-year decline.

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