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Do Award Shows Still Matter?

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As a Culture Vulture-The Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy Award Shows have all been non-miss events for me.  The ratings for all these shows have been trending downwards.

 

The Oscar and Grammy awards will be postponed due to Covid worries.  And, this week the Golden Globe Awards were doled out without being televised.  NBC pulled the show because an investigation determined that the Hollywood Foreign Press had no minority membership.

 

The loss of viewership has been blamed on the changing landscape of television viewing. Networks have suffered a huge drop in viewing, as people’s appetite for streaming and gaming has increased.  Social media has taken the place of award shows in acting as marketing springboards for movies, plays, shows, and recordings.

 

The media world has changed and the old buzz about who will win the Oscar will never be the same.  

 

Are you an Awards show fan?  And if so, how do you feel about the new reality?

Comments

Fred Klein

I love the Oscars, but there’s no denying that the times they are a changin’
Daniel Schwartz

I have basically given up on award shows. No interest whatsoever. I can't stand when the winners take a political or social stance and take away the moment for other reasons that I may be trying to take a break from. When the acceptance speech became a platform, they lost me (hate in sports as well).
RitaSue Siegel

I watched the award shows as a kid, but that was a long time ago. I still am eager to learn who won the awards. They do influence my choice of what to see given an array to select from, which we usually are.
Shelley Simpson

I used to love watching The Academy Awards but that was in the day when we had little access to the "stars." We now know more than we need to know about people I don't really care to know. Familiarity and breeding perhaps. There were also only a few awards of any kind. Now it's like everyone who plays gets a trophy somewhere along the line so it's not such an accomplishment.
ODEY RAVIV

Interesting observations by Shelley and Dan. Fred is with me on the Oscars and RitaSue lost her love for them.

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