Audimat smile on the Oscar audience rises
NEW YORK - Approximately 41.3 million people saw "The Hurt Locker" Top of the popular "Avatar" for best film in the most-watched Academy Awards broadcast since 2005. Oscar audience by 14 percent over the previous year, Nielsen Co. said Monday, following a trend that a larger audience for major events on television has broadcast a month after the Super Bowl set the mark for most per consignment. In true movie fashion, the Oscars built to a climax when the great Iraq war thriller "The Hurt Locker" and its director, Kathryn Bigelow, overcome, "Avatar", directed by her ex-husband James Cameron. Bigelow was the first woman to win the Oscar for best director. The audience was out of 36.3 million saw the "Slumdog Millionaire" wins best picture last year and 32 million - the smallest audience on record Oscar - in 2008, Nielsen. The Oscars were more than 42 million watch in 2005, when "Million Dollar Baby" was the big winner. The Oscar ratings align with a larger audience for awards in recent months. The Golden Globes are up 14 percent over the previous year, and heavy Grammys performance of up to 36 percent, Nielsen. The Emmys, the Tonys and the Miss America pageant all saw higher ratings. Analysts said that fewer than the Americans, watching television can gather for community events to help make these events more and more popular. With a poor economy are to keep more people at home, too. The Internet can also help to attract the viewers, experts say that people online, while the benefits, and give them to friends. Notes for the New York market did not come through a trade dispute between Cablevision and the parent of ABC, has Walt Disney Co. ABC from Cablevision for its 3.1 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, abandoned, on Sunday, and the network could are not restored, began to 13 minutes after the broadcast of the Oscars. Still, New York, ranked No. 13 among the 56 largest media companies in the country markets, Nielsen. Review of the New York night at 11 percent above the average for all major markets.