Hour 2: Emmy awards lowest rating ever.

Mark Simone

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4.4 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Betty White slowing down. Streaming shows. Henry Winkler wins his first Emmy award

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0:00.0	Mr. New York, Mark Simone, on W-O-R.
0:05.2	Well, we got the Emmy Award ratings.
0:08.0	It's quite shocking.
0:09.1	We'll get to Judge Kavanaugh.
0:10.8	Bill O'Reilly will be with us a little later this hour.
0:13.0	We'll get to Twitter and the NFL and Amazon and Roseanne and more.
0:18.2	Ratings in Emmy Awards.
0:26.9	Record ratings. Lowest ever. Lowest ratings ever for an Emmy Award.
0:43.3	A big, big drop. You know, they moved it to Monday night. It used to be Sunday night. The reason they moved it is to get away from the strong competition of Sunday night football. So it's easier to get viewers on a Monday night, however, wiped out, down 32%. The new all-time record low rating for the Emmy Awards. They got a 7.4 and a 13.
0:51.7	You might say, well, the Oscars dropped. The Oscars were down about 16%.
0:55.0	So massive drop for the Emmy Awards.
0:57.5	It was the worst thing I've ever seen.
1:00.0	I just watched a few minutes here and there.
1:01.7	The opening number about everything was race, diversity, sexist, transgender.
1:08.1	It's a television award show.
1:10.2	All the jokes, all the songs should be about television,
1:12.6	shouldn't they? Yeah, but I don't know that people are watching much of these things.
1:17.5	What are you talking about? People are watching all these things. The only thing is
1:20.3	that now, instead of like 10 big shows everybody watch, there's so many of them. There's hundreds.
1:24.4	You can't keep track of all of this. We listen this opening song.
1:27.0	I'm going to go ahead and say it. We solved it.
1:31.7	Seriously?
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