ABC Beats the Other Networks Combined by Triple Digits with Sunday's 'Oscars' Telecast

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Featuring coverage of the 90 th Annual Academy Awards, ABC shot to the top of Sunday's primetime, beating its combined broadcast competition (CBS, NBC and Fox) by 169% in Total Viewers and by 263% in Adults 18-49. "The Oscars" (8:00-11:54 p.m.)
ABC's 2018 telecast of "The Oscars" drew an average audience of 26.5 million Total Viewers, based on Nielsen's Live + Same Day "Fast National" ratings.

Television's biggest awards show, ABC's "The Oscars" towered over other key award
shows this season, outdrawing the 2018 "Grammy Awards" by 6.7 million viewers (19.8
million on 1/28/18) and the 2018 "Golden Globe ® Awards" by 7.5 million viewers (19.0 million on 1/7/18).

ABC's 2018 "Oscars" telecast reached an estimated 53.3 million unique television viewers across the U.S. - unduplicated Viewers 2 + watching 6 minutes or more during the broadcast. Social Activity (Nielsen Social)

The Academy Awards dominated Sunday night's social conversation with 23.0 million
interactions (Twitter: 48%, Facebook: 28%, Instagram: 24%). The most social moment on Twitter occurred at 10:39 p.m. ET with 70,868 interactions after Jordan Peele won the Best Original Screenplay award for "Get Out."

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