(CNN)For those wondering what Oscar ratings might be like in this pandemic-impacted year, based on the off-a-cliff results for Sunday's Golden Globe awards, the forecast could be to look out below.

Globes ratings plummeted more than 60% from the 18.3 million viewers who watched last year, per Nielsen data, to an average audience of 6.9 million. While the Globes have a long and uneven TV history -- at times airing in syndication, on cable and for a time after an earlier scandal, not at all -- that's the lowest tune-in since NBC acquired the broadcast rights in the 1990s.