Emmys Hits 4-Year Viewership High, Achieving Best Audience Since Last Time CBS Hosted

The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards may not have been “a big one like 75 or 80,” as host Nate Bargatze put it during Sunday night’s ceremony, but it was the most-watched in years.

Back on its regular annual schedule, after pulling double-duty last year thanks to the strike-delayed January ceremony, the Emmys drew 7.42M viewers across CBS and Paramount+, marking a four-year viewership high, according to early Nielsen data. It was up 8% from the 76th iteration on ABC last year.

It’s also on par with the last time CBS hosted the Emmys in 2021, which also posted about 7.4M viewers, coming off of the virtual 2020 ceremony that posted what was then the lowest audience ever for the award show. Fox’s strike-delayed 75th ceremony in January 2024 now holds the record for all-time lowest Emmys audience as just 4.3 million people tuned in.

This time, Paramount Global says that live streaming on Paramount…