Thursday Ratings: American Idol Leads FOX Win

By On 02/17/2012 · 33 Comments · In American Idol, Ratings

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Ratings are in from TVByTheNumbers

American Idol’s 2 hour episode scored a 5.0 adults 18-49 rating, down 14% vs. a 5.8 rating for its one hour episode last week. That was Idol’s lowest adults 18-49 rating since its first season (7/31/02). Idol half hour ratings [4.6, 5.4, 4.9, 5.2]. That still led a Fox win for adults 18-49 ratings and total viewership by a comfortable margin over CBS on Thursday night.

Those wondering about the continuing broadcast ratings declines, the combined adults 18-49 (cable+broadcast) in primetime last night was fractionally higher than it was last Thursday night (37.8 vs. 37.5).

CBS’s The Big Bang Theory drew a 5.0 adults 18-49 rating,  down 10% vs. a season high 5.6 rating last week, but that still beat American Idol in the 8-8:30 half hour vs. Idol’s 4.6 in that half hour).

Idol averaged 16 million viewers last night

8:00PM

FOX American Idol (8-10p) 5.0 13 16.495
CBS The Big Bang Theory 5.0 15 15.524
ABC Wipeout 1.5 4 5.126
NBC 30 Rock 1.4 4 3.604
CW The Vampire Diaries 1.3 4 2.855

8:30PM

CBS Rob 3.2 9 10.905
NBC Parks & Recreation 1.7 5 3.508

9:00PM ABC Grey’s Anatomy 3.1 8 8.126
CBS Person Of Interest 2.9 7 13.246
NBC The Office 2.2 6 4.339
CW The Secret Circle 0.8 2 1.759

9:30PM

NBC Up All Night 1.5 4 3.011

10:00PM

CBS The Mentalist 2.8 7 13.606
ABC Private Practice 2.6 7 7.089
NBC Grimm -R 0.7 2 2.032

 

 
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  • http://twitter.com/KariannHart Kariann Hart

    Over here, it is basketball season.  Practice is Thursday/ games are on Saturday.  Baseball starts in mid-April.  I think if word gets out that there are some really good contestants, ratings will increase.  At least I hope so.

  • http://twitter.com/tinawinabina Tinawina

    Thanks spenserj! That all sounds familiar!

  • Kylee

    Last night was a really good episode, so hopefully some positive buzz can get out.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SYFK77IYLRQIVATQ2MJKSW2J7Y Pam

    Here are last night’s final adjusted ratings from tvbythenumbers.

    Lots of  one tenth adjustments up and down with adults 18-49 vs. the Thursday preliminary numbers.

    Up a tenth:  American Idol, 30 Rock, The Big Bang Theory Grey’s Anatomy, The Office and The Vampire Diaries.

    Down a tenth: Person Of Interest, The Mentalist, The Secret Circle, Grimm repeat

    8:00PM FOX American Idol (8-10p) 5.1 14 16.710

  • http://twitter.com/doesmonaknow DoesMonaKnow

    Maybe two hours of 1950s and 1960s music wasn’t the best way to capture younger viewers. Nigel was on Twitter practically proud that one of the songs was first performed in some 1930s movie. In Idol’s heyday they could put on two hours of anything and get 30 million viewers but those days are gone.

  • http://twitter.com/MikhailXO MikhailXO

    I didn’t find it all that good. I think Idol needs to keep working hard (harder) at maintaing a viewing audience. I doubt music form the 50′s and 60′s will do that for them.

  • Kylee

    Well the majority did, which is important as far as buzz goes. Obviously not everybody will be impressed, but that’s the nature of anything. You can’t please everybody at once.

  • Anonymous

     It could be related to V-Day.  Now that it’s over, the singles get back to mingling with people they met on a dating site.  

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