Oscars second lowest viewership since Neilson started taking ratings

[Zander]

Personally, I can't imagine anything more boring than watching a bunch of self congratulatory boobs run around for 4 hours congratulating themselves.

You've really got to be a mindless drone to enjoy that shit....

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The 80's were also the coolest times to get AIDS.

The 80';s had the best rock'n roll music.

Fuck Aids, we still came out way ahead.

I thought 80's was the worst music. Of course I'm a child of the 70's. But the 80's went to synthesizer, videos and guys wearing long hair and makeup. I liked some of the ballads that came out during that time, but when the 90's hit (Seattle sound) that's when I began listening to the radio again.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

The Oscars were always great when Reagan was President!

 

[Rexx Taylor]

The 80's were also the coolest times to get AIDS.

The 80';s had the best rock'n roll music.

Fuck Aids, we still came out way ahead.

I thought 80's was the worst music. Of course I'm a child of the 70's. But the 80's went to synthesizer, videos and guys wearing long hair and makeup. I liked some of the ballads that came out during that time, but when the 90's hit (Seattle sound) that's when I began listening to the radio again.

1984 thru around 1995 were my favorite music years....loved 1990/91/92 !!!!!

 

[AsianTrumpSupporter]

80's had a lot of good music and movies, but I think 70's was the best for both.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The 80's were also the coolest times to get AIDS.

The 80';s had the best rock'n roll music.

Fuck Aids, we still came out way ahead.

I thought 80's was the worst music. Of course I'm a child of the 70's. But the 80's went to synthesizer, videos and guys wearing long hair and makeup. I liked some of the ballads that came out during that time, but when the 90's hit (Seattle sound) that's when I began listening to the radio again.

1984 thru around 1995 were my favorite music years....loved 1990/91/92 !!!!!

The music industry really took a hit in the 80's, because they were more concentrated on videos than music. Everybody watched the videos, but they didn't have good attendance at the concerts, and concerts is where the band actually made money.

So the videos sold, but the records (CD's) didn't, and the music industry had to start focusing on better music than videos. Then the Seattle sound came out and the industry was back on track selling recordings.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

80's had a lot of good music and movies, but I think 70's was the best for both.

Of course. In the 70's, they made rock and roll out of every other kind of music. If you had a fancy towards English lute, you had Jethro Tull. If you kind of liked Opera music, you had Queen. If you liked soul music, you had Joe Cocker. If you liked country music, you had bands like Leonard Skinner. They made rock and roll out of anything.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

The Academy Awards had their most chaotic conclusion ever on Sunday night, but a relatively small audience was watching it.

The ceremony, broadcast on ABC, drew 32.9 million viewers, the second-lowest total since Nielsen started tracking viewership in 1974.

This is the third straight year of declining viewership for the show, and the ratings hit is a significant one: In the last three years, the Oscars have shed more than 10 million viewers.

The only Oscars broadcast to fare worse was the 2008 show, which had 32 million viewers and aired shortly after a writers’ strike had ended.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/business/media/academy-awards-ratings-viewership-abc.html

Before the mods get on me for creating a post about entertainment in a political forum, I posted this because I do think politics had a play in all this. Here and there, we have read where us right-wingers would boycott this event. Laughed at by the left, are we now seeing the results of this boycott, or are they going to try and spin that it was the snafu AT THE END of the program that is responsible for this historically low viewership rating?

It was predicted well in advance the bashing Trump would take by these celebrity clowns. Yet most of the leftist articles I read are trying to pinpoint the ratings on the screw up for best picture where they read the wrong movie. Does anybody with an ounce of sense believe this for a minute?

I don't.

Very good point, Ray. I gave up television some time ago but watch DVD films from Pure flix videos and other documentaries but I do not like anything with curse words or God's name taken in vain. Now with Hollywood treating President Trump so terribly I am not interested in their awards ceremonies or anything else. I just learned tonight that they had a big blunder on their show which is probably due to the fact that they didn't show up for rehearsals and thought they could show up and wing it. Obviously that wasn't the case.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

I lived in Boca Raton fl. late 84-85,,,so young, had no concept/idea that i was living the best of times.,,,same during the mid-90's,,,the thought that these are my best years, best of times again never entered. then later came new years eve 1999(i worked a party),,,then it dawned on me that our best days are gone. i was so right.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

I lived in Boca Raton fl. late 84-85,,,so young, had no concept/idea that i was living the best of times.,,,same during the mid-90's,,,the thought that these are my best years, best of times again never entered. then later came new years eve 1999(i worked a party),,,then it dawned on me that our best days are gone. i was so right.

and till this day,,i am still saddened that the 90's are gone.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Oscars?

Is that where all these thespians give each other little statues?

IS there anything more possibly boring other than discussions of ballistics?

Hardly boring. I learned about this on O'Reilly tonight.

Tehran: Iran's Culture Minister Reza Salehi-Amiri and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday lauded prominent director Asghar Farhadi's best foreign film Oscar win for his movie The Salesman.

"With Farhadi's film The Salesman, the voice of the Iranian culture was heard in the world," state news agency Irna quoted Salehi-Amri as stating.


"Iranian culture is a culture of peace, friendship, convergence and coexistence.

"This message and this award showed that the US President's behaviour is against peace and friendship," Salehi-Amir added in a reference to Donald Trump's controversial ban on citizens of seven Muslim countries.

Salehi-Amir praised the art and cinema community for awarding Farhadi an Oscar at the Los Angeles awards ceremony on Sunday - and his boycotting of the star-studded event.

Iran Hails Asghar Farhadi's Best Foreign Film Oscar Win

So this joker, from the world state of terrorism, is boycotting us??? And he got a round of applause from this leftist audience? Then they are scratching their heads why this boycott is active?

You just can't make it up. I'm telling you. Their elevator is not going to the top floor anymore.

 

[The Irish Ram]

I am so sick of those people rewarding themselves. And making us "share" the moment, at least once a week, for memorizing a script and going to rehab once a month. Way to self-absorbed for my taste. They're like some weird cult.
Speaking of self absorbed:

This does not look like the SUV I went there to buy....
< have you met my husband?

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Oscars?

Is that where all these thespians give each other little statues?

IS there anything more possibly boring other than discussions of ballistics?

Hardly boring. I learned about this on O'Reilly tonight.

Tehran: Iran's Culture Minister Reza Salehi-Amiri and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday lauded prominent director Asghar Farhadi's best foreign film Oscar win for his movie The Salesman.

"With Farhadi's film The Salesman, the voice of the Iranian culture was heard in the world," state news agency Irna quoted Salehi-Amri as stating.


"Iranian culture is a culture of peace, friendship, convergence and coexistence.

"This message and this award showed that the US President's behaviour is against peace and friendship," Salehi-Amir added in a reference to Donald Trump's controversial ban on citizens of seven Muslim countries.

Salehi-Amir praised the art and cinema community for awarding Farhadi an Oscar at the Los Angeles awards ceremony on Sunday - and his boycotting of the star-studded event.

Iran Hails Asghar Farhadi's Best Foreign Film Oscar Win

So this joker, from the world state of terrorism, is boycotting us??? And he got a round of applause from this leftist audience? Then they are scratching their heads why this boycott is active?

You just can't make it up. I'm telling you. Their elevator is not going to the top floor anymore.

What's astounding is the applause he got. During the Iraq war, Iran sent their head hunters in to kill our solders. Now, a representative from their country receives an award, insults our President, has the nerve to boycott us, and leftists are just giddy over his actions.

Makes you wonder if our enemies are on the other side or within our borders. Then they are confused how we elected a guy like Trump to lead the country.

 

[Pogo]

The 80's were also the coolest times to get AIDS.

The 80';s had the best rock'n roll music.

Fuck Aids, we still came out way ahead.

That's as representative a compilation of great examples of rock music gone lame as I've ever seen.

When you list five records and the Stones have the best one on it ---- that's lame.

Of course ---- Brown Sugar was 1971, not the '80s. I believe it's about Claudia Lennear.

 

[Pogo]

Everyone knows this was a throw away Oscars to make it look like liberal celebrities are inclusive after getting called out on their racism and segregation last year even though all they did was add a bunch of token Black people (no other minorities really). I haven't watched the Oscars since about 2002 anyway.

So Republicans boycott liberal things just like liberals boycott south Carolina when they pull some shinanigans or hobby lobby.

You should only watch Charleston Heston's movies, go to Dennis Miller stand up, root for Tom Brady and listen to Ted nugent

boycott?

someone boycotted the Oscars?

Odd, Didnt' see the memo

I know, right? First I ever heard of it was this goofy thread, not that it would have changed anything for me since I've never watched that shit anyway.

OP's got a WAY bigly inflated opinion of himself.

And what opinion of myself might that be? I never mentioned myself in the OP, merely asking a question.

Yeah actually you did, both in the singular and the plural:

Before the mods get on me for creating a post about entertainment in a political forum, I posted this because I do think politics had a play in all this. Here and there, we have read where us right-wingers would boycott this event. Laughed at by the left, are we now seeing the results of this boycott, or are they going to try and spin that it was the snafu AT THE END of the program that is responsible for this historically low viewership rating?

The first person pronoun is fine, that's just how language works. What amuses me is how you're so wrapped up tight in your little bubble that you actually think you can "boycott" a TV show and that will show up in the ratings. You don't have anywhere near that kind of influence. If you did I'd hire you in a heartbeat. As noted before, most people can and do take a shit without trying to make something political out of it. You're obsessed.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The first person pronoun is fine, that's just how language works. What amuses me is how you're so wrapped up tight in your little bubble that you actually think you can "boycott" a TV show and that will show up in the ratings. You don't have anywhere near that kind of influence. If you did I'd hire you in a heartbeat. As noted before, most people can and do take a shit without trying to make something political out of it. You're obsessed.

And you're butthurt. Get used to it.

 

[Skull Pilot]

In fascist regimes journalism and the arts are the first victims. Hollywood is right to stand against the deplorables.

Hollywood is it's own victim
all these holier than thou celebrity assholes trying to tell everyone else how to live is what turns people off

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

In fascist regimes journalism and the arts are the first victims. Hollywood is right to stand against the deplorables.

Hollywood is it's own victim
all these holier than thou celebrity assholes trying to tell everyone else how to live is what turns people off

Like I said, when you take a political stance, you piss off half of your audience.

Entertainers should just entertain. Sure, you can have a political view, but keep it separate from your work. When you mix politics with your work, you have to expect some kind of reaction.

 

[Skull Pilot]

In fascist regimes journalism and the arts are the first victims. Hollywood is right to stand against the deplorables.

Hollywood is it's own victim
all these holier than thou celebrity assholes trying to tell everyone else how to live is what turns people off

Like I said, when you take a political stance, you piss off half of your audience.

Entertainers should just entertain. Sure, you can have a political view, but keep it separate from your work. When you mix politics with your work, you have to expect some kind of reaction.

exactly but these hollywood types don't understand that

 

[ChrisL]

I don't usually watch these type of awards shows.