Caitlyn Jenner's appearance on the 2015 ESPY Awards gave the annual ceremony its best ratings.

According to Nielsen data, an average of 7.7-million viewers watched the event broadcast Wednesday on ABC for the first time. Previous airings were on ESPN, where the ESPY Awards averaged 2.2-million viewers in 2014.

As expected, the audience grew for the final hour of the three-hour event when Olympic medal winner Jenner, making her first major public appearance since transitioning into a woman, was honored with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. An audience of 8.5-million viewers watched Jenner's appearance, a bump of 1.9 million over the first hour of the program.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...716-story.html

Loved Caitlyn's speech.

Power of Caitlyn and Britney.

empress of life

Legend

More like Britney!

Less than 10 million viewers on a top channel like ABC isn't very good after changing networks from a cable network to a main 1.

I loved the speech.

Caitlyn whole heartedly deserved that award but to be completely honest, I do think there were a couple people who would have been more deserving, like Lauren Hill. You know that a big reason they picked her is because of the publicity it would garner.

However, she delivered a speech that I think everyone needed to hear, and I'm glad she got that platform to do it.

The ESPY Awards ranked as the top program of the night and the largest summer audience for ABC since 2005. ABC topped its nearest competitor, CBS, by 51%. In the advertiser-coveted demographic of 18- to 49-year-olds, the ESPYs averaged a 2.2 rating, which also led the night.

it did very well

It's the ESPY's, its their first time on a main network. It's a ratings high for them, those are great numbers.

Queen of all media

Caitlyn getting those ratings.. you go girl

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Britney ha power

Caitlyn, her power. So glad she is bringing trans issues to the forefront.

Queen CJ.