ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT’S OSCAR COVERAGE GROWS YEAR-TO-YEAR ACROSS THE COUNTRY!

ET DOMINATES THE OSCAR SOCIAL CONVERSATION WITH STAGGERING 49% INCREASE YEAR-OVER-YEAR

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 LOS ANGELES – March 14, 2025 – ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT’s 2025 Oscars broadcast, which aired the day after the Academy Awards, saw an 8% year-over-year increase in total viewership in metered market households and a 14% surge among women 25-54. (Source: WRAP Overnights as dated, Live+SD 000s.)

On social media, from Sunday, March 2 through Tuesday, March 4, ET ranked first in the competitive set and saw an impressive 24.7 million engagements, marking a 49% increase year-over-year. 

• ET beat out E! News by 1.7M and Variety by 12M social engagements.
• ET ranked first in video views across social platforms with 219.6M, beating E! News by 50M views and Variety by 99M views. 

• ET saw significant growth in video views on TikTok with 96.8M views, up 165% year-over-year.

• ET garnered 5.6M views during the Academy Awards period on YouTube, beating E! News by nearly 1M views with 100 less videos posted.

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT continues to lead the entertainment newsmagazine genre with 2.85 million viewers, beating the next closest competitor, Access Hollywood, by 173%.

About ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT 

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT is the #1 entertainment news show on TV with nine Emmy wins. ET ranks #1 for entertainment news video on Facebook and YouTube. ET’s social platforms generate 1.8 billion monthly impressions and more than 615 million videos views per month across all platforms. ETonline.com is the go-to destination for celebrity interviews and entertainment news video. ET’s streaming channel is available on Pluto, Paramount+, Samsung TV, The Roku Channel, FreeVee, and more.

Produced and distributed by CBS Media Ventures, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT is co-hosted by Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner with Rachel Smith, Cassie DiLaura and Denny Directo as correspondents. Erin Johnson serves as executive producer with Whitney Wallace and Leslie Kawaguchi as co-executive producers.

About CBS Media Ventures

CBS Media Ventures is the preeminent company in television syndication. CMV produces or distributes “The Drew Barrymore Show,” “Jeopardy!,” “Wheel of Fortune,” “Entertainment Tonight,” “Inside Edition,” “Hot Bench,” “Pictionary” and the new game show “Flip Side,” as well as the “Judge Judy” and “Dr. Phil” libraries. The division also handles national barter advertising sales for Debmar-Mercury's and Fox's first-run syndicated programming. CMV is a division of Paramount.

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