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The 98th annual Academy Awards drew 17.86 million viewers on ABC and Hulu<\/a>, which makes it the least-watched Oscars telecast since 2022. The number is down 9% from last year\u2019s 19.7 million viewers, which had been a five-year high for the telecast.<\/p>\n

The telecast averaged a 3.92 rating among adults 18-49, down from last year\u2019s 4.54 but up from 2024\u2019s 3.82 rating. Despite this year\u2019s dip, the 98th Academy Awards now rates as the No. 1 primetime entertainment telecast of the 2025-2026 season, according to Disney.<\/p>\n

The declines for Sunday night\u2019s broadcast, which was hosted by Conan O\u2019Brien<\/a>, matches similar dips seen by other major awards shows this winter,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 98th annual Academy Awards drew 17.86 million viewers on ABC and Hulu, which makes it the least-watched Oscars telecast since 2022. The number is down 9% from last year\u2019s 19.7 million viewers, which had been a five-year high for the telecast. The telecast averaged a 3.92 rating among adults 18-49, down from last year\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2334022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2334021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Oscars-Ratings-Hit-179-Million-Viewers-Down-9-From-Last.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334023,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334021\/revisions\/2334023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}