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The ESPY Awards are a made for TV event. In 2023, TV was not entirely kind to ESPN’s awards show.
LeBron James’s speech and Damar Hamlin’s emotional tribute to the people that saved his life on the field in Cincinnati became viral moments. How many people saw them live though? Not enough is the answer.
Wednesday’s ESPY broadcast averaged a 1.4 rating according to Sports Media Watch. That is about 2.3 million people that were tuned in on ABC.
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Last year’s broadcast averaged 2.5 million people, about 7% more than this year.
The 2023 numbers make this years ESPY Awards broadcast the least-watched in a decade, excluding 2020 and 2021, when the event’s schedule was effected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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