LA Suits âunderwhelmedâ in the ratings in US as well. The Americas did well for NBC.
The 97th annual Academy Awards saw drew 18.07M viewers across ABC and Hulu on Sunday night, per Disney.
Likely not the number that the Mouse House was hoping for, considering itâs a bit of a decline over the past two years. It was about a 7% decrease from last yearâs four-year audience high of 19.5M viewers and was just slightly lower than the year prior, when 18.8M tuned in for the 95th annual Academy Awards in 2023.
Donald Trumpâs speech to a joint session of Congress drew an estimated 36.6 million viewers, down from the presidentâs first term but beating Joe Bidenâs initial address in 2021.
The audience was almost 10 million viewers compared to the 26.9 million who watched Bidenâs first speech to a joint session of Congress. Trumpâs first address in 2017 drew 47.7 million.
The daytime drama thatâs the first to premiere since Passions in 1999 grew to 2.28 million viewers in L+3, up 78 percent from The Talk last year.
CBS says L+3 streaming provided a boost of 13.6 percent over the showâs linear only audience, which was better than The Young and the Restless (10.9%) and The Bold and the Beautiful (12.6%).
L+7-day viewing for the premiere episode averaged 3.0M viewers, higher than the last daytime drama debut, which was Passions on July 5, 1999 (2.96M).
Sunday, Feb. 9 becomes the second most-watched day of TV in Gauge history with over 110 billion total day viewing minutes.
Tubi represented a third of all streaming during the Big Game.
Streaming notches the largest share of TV to date with 43.5%; traditional TV leads by less than a share point with 44.4%.