The Awards Show No One Watches

Broadway's Tony Awards remained a flop on TV with CBS's telecast of the Broadway awards telecast averaging a 4.9 rating and an 8 share, not much better than the 4.5/7 in 2005, the lowest-rated Tonys in history. Sunday night's result was down a tad from the 5.0/8 of last year's show. (A revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific won seven awards, while the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama August: Osage County won five.) The top draw of the evening was NBC's coverage of the U.S. Open, which averaged an 11.4/22 between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., peaking in the final half hour with a 13.5/24.


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