The 76th Annual TonyAwards managed to persevere on Sunday despite the ongoing writers strike, drawing a three-year high of 4.31M viewers
coast-to-coast for the second year in a row and streaming on Paramount+ and the CBS digital platforms, according to early Nielsen data.
Sunday night’s telecast was 2% versus last year’s audience of 3.86M viewers. At the time, that was a strong showing for the Tony Awards, up 39% from the abbreviated pandemic ceremony that faced some tough broadcast competition in 2021.According to CBS, the show was the most live-streamed Tony Awards ever, with the audience on Paramount+ up 13% over last year.
Like all awards shows, the Tony Awards hit an all-time low viewership during the pandemic that it still hasn’t quite bounced back from. Though this was the most-watched Tonys since 2019, it wasn’t able to reach its pre-pandemic audience of 5.4M viewers. Still, , the show was the second most-watched broadcast program on Sunday behind only its lead-in, a rerun ofAlthough the writers agreed not to picket the Tony Awards on Sunday, they weren’t able to provide services for the ceremony either, meaning that it went without a scripted opening and the usual scripted banter throughout the night. Despite that hiccup, the show went smoothly.was the big winner at the 76th annual ceremony on Sunday night in New York.
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