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Hollywood Award Shows Are in Free Fall. Can They Be Saved?

Viewership of the Emmys, Grammys and Oscars has fallen to record lows. Here's a list of some ways to fix them.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 26: Interior view during the 78th Annual Golden Globes Media Preview at The Rainbow Room on February 26, 2021 in New York, New York. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images)Photographer: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images

Hollywood award shows are setting records in all of the worst ways.

The Emmy Awards attracted the smallest audience in at least three decades last September, while this year’s Golden Globes fell to a 13-year low. Experts are already predicting the April 25 Oscars will be the least watched in the modern era, and the Grammys, airing Sunday night, are trying to avoid a similar fate.