Tony Awards Viewership Drops 14% From 2023 to 3.5 Million on CBS

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The 77th annual ceremony didn’t continue rebounding to its pre-pandemic viewership

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Jonathan Groff accepts the Best Leading Actor in a Musical award for "Merrily We Roll Along" onstage during The 77th Annual Tony Awards (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)

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Viewership for the 77th Tony Awards was slightly down when compared to the 2023 awards ceremony.

The Sunday night event, which aired from 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. ET on CBS, drew 3.51 million total viewers, according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day fast national data. That’s down 14.8% from last year’s ceremony, which brought in 4.12 million viewers (this article will be updated when the final numbers are available on Tuesday).

Taking place on Father’s Day might have impacted the show’s viewership, with PUT (persons viewing TV) levels for Sunday marking the lowest Sunday primetime recorded since the measurement began over three decades ago.

Loree Seitz

Loree joined TheWrap as a reporter in 2022 after interning at the publication during the summer of 2021. Loree has covered entertainment, film and television for TheWrap and has reported on the media industry and the cable news beat. She has also written for MovieMaker Magazine, where she interned in 2020.

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One response to “Tony Awards Viewership Drops 14% From 2023 to 3.5 Million on CBS”

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    cadavra

    It speaks volumes that the best major awards ceremony on TV would be the lowest-rated. People really don’t care about quality entertainment anymore.

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