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Grammy Awards TV audience plunges, political digs a turn-off for some

Seat cards sit in place ahead of the 60th Annual Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan in New York City, U.S. The show’s rating plummeted. [Lucas Jackson, Reuters]

The U.S. television audience for Sunday's Grammy Awards on CBS Corp. fell by more than six million viewers, CBS said on Monday, after a show criticized for political jibes and wins for Bruno Mars at the expense of innovative rapper Kendrick Lamar.

Citing Nielsen data, CBS said 19.8 million Americans tuned in for the three and a half hour broadcast, from 2017 when 26.1 million people watched on television. The lowest audience for any Grammy Awards show was in 2006, which drew an audience of 17 million.

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