American Idol KILLS The Olympics

[PlatypusBen]

Poor NBC, The Olympics are getting record low ratings! Even worse is that on Tuesday over 10 Million People decided to watch American Idol over The Olympics

Raw athleticism faced off against raw, sometimes fetid, musical talent on Tuesday night, and talent won. American Idol 5 was watched by 26.6 million people, compared to 16.1 million who watched the Olympics on NBC. That’s “the biggest advantage any competing net has had over an Olympics network since at least 1992, according to Nielsen data,” Variety reports.

To be fair, Olympic coverage is spread over 1,251 networks in the NBC family, so perhaps the audience was fragmented. Also not helping: NBC’s continual efforts to push viewers away, like on Friday night when the network delayed the start of the actual opening ceremony to after 9 p.m., instead of the announced 8 p.m.

FOX’s show was hurt slightly, dropping 12 percent last week, but “Fox still beat the combined 18-49 averages of the other five broadcasters from 8 to 9 (11.2 to 10.5),” according to Variety.


So American Idol once again WON Tuesdays at 8:00pm, and last night the Olympics were down even more as American Idol WON Wednesdays at 9:00PM.

American Idol is still America's #1 program.

since the olympics started the only other show to beat The Olympics was ABC's Grey's Anatomy (Sundays 10:00pm), however ABC's Desperate Housewives (Sundays 9:00PM), FOX's House (Tuesdays 9:00PM), and ABC's Lost (Wednesdays 9:00PM) did beat The Olympics in Adults 18-49, the demo that the advertisers care about most!