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Oscarcast tops '06 but misses 40 mil mark


February 27, 2007 Sunday night's Academy Awards telecast delivered so-so ratings for ABC, ahead of last year's abysmal numbers but failing to crack the 40 million-viewer mark as it has three of the past six years. The telecast averaged 39.9 million viewers, according to preliminary data released Monday by Nielsen Media Research. Sunday still was well above the low point of 2003, when only 33 million viewers tuned in during the early days of the Iraq War.

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