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The 83rd annual Golden Globes achieved an average of 8.7 million viewers on Sunday night, marking the third year in a row the ceremony was broadcast on CBS.

As measured by Nielsen, that total represents a 6% decline from the 9.3 million viewers reached during the 2025 ceremony – which marked a 2% decline from the 2024 ceremony.

This year’s live Golden Globes ceremony, which aired at 5 p.m. PT, benefited from leading viewership from the NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and the Jacksonville Jaguars that aired on CBS. But the ceremony also competed directly with NBC’s broadcast of the NFL wild-card game in which the New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Chargers to secure a spot in the playoffs.

Nikki Glaser hosted the Globes for the second year in a row and was once again positively received. Variety critic Alison Herman wrote that “Glaser continued to confidently walk the thin and delicate line between landing bumps as he seemed contagiously excited to be in the Beverly Hilton ballroom,” the ceremony’s producers recounted. Variety they “certainly hope” she will return as host next year.

Glaser’s opening monologue generated 14 million views on social media platforms after 36 hours. On the Golden Globes YouTube page, the eleven-minute monologue was viewed no less than 3.7 million times on Tuesday evening. CBS said the ceremony produced the most “social interactions” in Globes history, with some 42 million interactions on Sunday night.

Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner of White Cherry Entertainment served as showrunners and executive producers of the Golden Globes. The ceremony was produced by Dick Clark Productions, owned by Variety parent company PMC in a joint venture with Eldridge.

The Globes were also broadcast in 165 international territories.