According to Playbill, ratings were down significantly. While I thought it was a fabulous show -- and it usually is the best of this ilk -- in checking my social media Sunday night and Monday morning, there was a combination of frustration and downright anger about the streaming half of the show, that boiled down to two camps: "Why can't I see this on my teevee?" and "I don't want to subscribe to Paramount Plus!"
I thought about explaining the whole "get a free subscription and cancel it right afterward" concept, but most of the posts I saw seemed to come from people for whom that idea was the equivalent of understanding particle physics. There was also a healthy chunk of folks who didn't even know where and when it was on. Left mostly unsaid was Paramount/Viacom's questionable decision to air the first two hours (where all but three of the awards were given) live online, but leave the second half broadcast-only for most of the country, so that anyone not in the eastern time zone had to wait as long as three hours to continue the show. My takeaway was that Paramount alienated far more people than they attracted. --Dave Sikula -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/707b79f5-6bca-42ba-8356-876c975e661fn%40googlegroups.com.
