Tony Awards delivered its largest broadcast audience in six years on Sunday night. The 2025 ceremony, hosted by Cynthia Erivo, boasted 4.85M viewers on CBS, per live + same-day Nielsen data. That’s up 38% over last year’s audience of 3.

According to Nielsen’s time-zone adjusted data, the awards show drew 5.1 million viewers for CBS. That is up from 3.53 million in 2024, an increase of approximately 44%. That is also the largest audience for the Tonys since 2019, when the telecast that year nabbed 5.4 million viewers.

Tony Awards on CBS on Sunday (June 8) delivered its largest broadcast audience since 2019 (when James Corden hosted), up 38% year-over-year, and its largest livestreaming audience ever on Paramount+,