 Washington Post
With ABC's Emmycast down by about 4 million viewers from last year -- and only about 2 million viewers ahead of 1990, when the trophy show aired on Fox and two other broadcast networks counterprogrammed with new-season premieres -- CBS managed to win the Sunday ratings race with a football overrun, "60 Minutes" and crime-drama reruns, according to preliminary numbers.
Asked to navel-gaze about the numbers, most television suits contacted simply stated the obvious: When HBO dominates the ceremony, as it did Sunday night, you're awarding honors to programs that aren't even available in two-thirds of the country's TV homes.
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