There's no end in sight for the Primetime Emmys' viewership woes, which reached an all-time low for the second straight year during Sunday's broadcast on ABC. For the second year in a row, the Primetime Emmy Awards broke an all-time record low for viewership.

Nielsen data stated that the Primetime Emmys, which aired at 8 p.m. ET on ABC on Sunday, garnered 6.1 million total viewers. That's a sharp drop from the 2019 Emmys' 6.9 million viewers on Fox. The 2020 Primetime Emmys' viewership was the lowest since the event began tracking viewership data in 1990.

The 2020 Emmys have been Hollywood's largest awards show since the coronavirus pandemic began impacting daily life in the United States. There's no indication that the pandemic directly depressed viewership numbers, but the coronavirus had an indirect impact on the Emmys via network TV's Sunday sports programming. Competing Sunday evening programming included Sunday Night Football and an NBA game featuring the Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets; NFL programming on several networks was significantly higher than viewership for the Emmys.

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Although the 2020 Primetime Emmys saw record-low viewership numbers, it is not the only award show to do so this year. Award show viewership has been on the decline for years and the 2020 Golden Globes hit an eight-year viewership low, while the viewership for the most recent Oscars was the worst in the event's history.