Ratings low for Emmys show

Sunday's 59th annual Primetime Emmy Awards show in Los Angeles earned the second lowest ratings in the telecast's recorded history.

Broadcast on Fox with "American Idol" presenter Ryan Seacrest as host, the television industry's biggest night of the year averaged about 13.1 million viewers, preliminary Nielsen results show.

This year's audience came in well below the 16.2 million viewers who flocked to NBC for its late-August telecast a year ago and the 18.7 million who watched on CBS two years ago, Variety.com said Monday.

The smallest Emmy audience on record was the 1990 telecast, also on Fox, which drew 12.3 million viewers.

About 40.2 million people tuned in to watch the Academy Awards on ABC this year.
// Copyright 2007 by United Press International

Publication date: 18 September 2007

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