American Idol is Huge. The TV Numbers Don’t Lie. More People Watched the Premeir of American Idol than The College Football BCS Championship Game.
More people watched American Idol last night than anything that has been on television so far this season. How many? According to preliminary nationals released by Nielsen, the first episode of the sixth season of American Idol averaged a 15.7 rating and a 36 share in adults 18-49 and 37.3 million total viewers overall. That’s up 5% over last year’s season premiere and only below the season two finale, in which Ruben Studdard beat Clay Aiken, in the series history. That episode aired in May of 2003.
The numbers for American Idol get more ridiculous. The broadcast last night was the most watched program in the highly coveted 18-49 demographic in almost three years, since the May 2004 series finale of Friends. Want some other comparisons? According to Variety, AI’s numbers were 43% higher than the very successful season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy and even 30% higher than the BCS Championship Game between Florida and Ohio State that aired on January 8th.
It keeps going. Last night, the 15.7 rating for American Idol doubled the 18-49 rating for ABC, CBS, and NBC COMBINED. It tied the network’s highest ratings for a season premiere in almost a decade, since the 1997 season premiere of The X-Files.
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