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Golden Globes Average 8.7 Million Viewers on CBS, Down About 7% Year Over Year

The broadcast went head-to-head with NFL playoff games, a scheduling choice networks and analysts say reliably suppresses awards ratings.

Overview

  • The 83rd Golden Globes drew 8.66 million live-plus-same-day viewers, a roughly 6–7% decline from 2025, according to Nielsen.
  • Sunday’s ceremony lacked a direct late-afternoon NFL lead-in on CBS and competed with an NFL playoff game on NBC, factors cited for the drop.
  • CBS reported the show’s largest social footprint to date with about 42–43 million interactions, while Nikki Glaser’s opening monologue reached roughly 14 million views within 36 hours.
  • Nielsen’s incorporation of a big-data component this season changes how figures are calculated and complicates year-over-year comparisons to earlier panel-only reports.
  • Major winners included One Battle After Another and Hamnet, as the Globes continued their third consecutive year on CBS under a multi-year broadcast deal.