Marginalia
March, 2004
A billion people worldwide watch the Oscars every yearReality: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says that ABC, which has aired the Oscars since 1976, is the source for this figure. ABC admits it's impossible to enumerate how many people tune in. Let's look at the assumptions: ABC says 33 million viewers watched in the U.S. last year, down from 42 million in 2002. We'll use the higher figure as our starting point. The population of the U.S. is 280 million, which gives us a rate of...
