American Idol' finale posts all-time low ratings, preliminary figures show


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Phillip Phillips winning 'American Idol' was not a big winner for the show.
Preliminary Nielsen ratings show 20.7 million viewers watched the singing competition's finale on Wednesday night, a great audience for almost any other show, but for "Idol," a 29 percent drop from last year's audience.
If the preliminary number holds, it would make Season 11's finale the least watched ever. Season One's finale had 23 million viewers. The show's high point was Season Two, in 2003, with over 38 million viewers.
'Idol' finale: What you didn't see.
Early Nielsen figures also show "Idol" losing more that a third of its viewers in the 18-49 year old age group, which advertisers prize.
On the bright side, audience participation at least seems to be at an all-time high.
Host Ryan Seacrest announced that a record-breaking 132 million votes were cast between the show's finalists, former pawn shop worker Phillip Phillips and home-schooled high school student Jessica Sanchez.

































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Jay Lo said…
I’m convinced that American Idol isn’t getting the ratings like before due to the same old scenario without any freshness. I think the producers need to go and revamp the show so it can gain viewers again. I enjoyed the show commercial free using my Auto Hop feature from Dish. The Hopper lets you skip commercials using the Auto Hop feature, which means I don’t have to manually fast forward through all those commercials when I watch my primetime shows. One of my coworkers at Dish showed me how the Auto Hop feature works and how easy it is to skip commercials. I like having the option to choose to skip the commercials or not. This will save some wear and tear on my remote with all the fast forwarding I do.
June 6, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Abbas ELSayed said…
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June 8, 2012 at 9:47 AM
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