2015 telecast was the least watched Emmys in history

AND the winner wasn’t the Emmys — at least, when it came to the viewership.

LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 20: Host Andy Samberg speaks onstage during the 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 20, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

AND the winner wasn’t the Emmys — at least, when it came to the viewership.

Nielsen says yesterday’s three-hour special which aired on Fox in the US averaged just 11.9 million viewers, making it the least-watched Emmycast in history.

Last year, when it aired on a Monday in late August on NBC, it logged 15.6 million viewers.

In 2013, 17.8 million viewers tuned in for CBS’s broadcast, teamed with an NFL game as a powerful lead-in.

This year’s Emmy show likewise had football as a lead-in, but faced football as direct competition too, thanks to NBC’s Sunday Night Football.

The program, airing from Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater, was hosted by Andy Samberg.