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 LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Emmy telecast got tackled by the National Football League, with the ceremony drawing its second-smallest audience on record. The awards show on Fox honoring TV's best, which was in direct competition with Sunday's football game in much of the country, was watched by just under 13 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research figures released Tuesday.
Last year's ceremony, on NBC, drew 16.1 million. The biggest viewership in recent years was in 2000 on ABC, when nearly 22 million tuned in.
In 1990, when then-fledgling network Fox had grabbed the Emmy ceremony away from the big three networks for several years, the show had 12.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen. The program now rotates annually among the four major broadcasters.
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