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Grammy broadcast audience at 7-year low

NEW YORK

Monday’s Grammys telecast missed a beat with the TV audience, delivering a seven-year low in viewership.

The Nielsen ratings company says the music shindig aired on CBS was seen by an average 24.95 million viewers. That was 300,000 fewer viewers than for last year’s edition, which was the smallest Grammys audience since 2009.

Cosby loses appeal

PHILADELPHIA

Bill Cosby’s criminal sexual-assault case appears to be headed toward an evidence hearing after a Pennsylvania judge denied his latest effort to throw the charges out.

The judge who refused to dismiss the case this month has denied Cosby’s appeal of that decision.

The 78-year-old TV star is accused of drugging and violating an ex-Temple University employee at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 and could get 10 years in prison if convicted.

Associated Press