Wednesday Ratings: American Idol Falls in Double Digits

By On 02/23/2012 · 178 Comments · In American Idol, Ratings

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Ratings are in from TVByTheNumbers

Fox easily won the night despite American Idol falling 16% from last week to a 5.1 adults 18-49 rating. That’s down a whopping 35% vs. last year’s equivalent telecast (7.9 adults 18-49 rating on Wednesday, February 23, 2011). Idol will likely be adjusted up a tenth or two in the finals but that won’t make up for even the week over week losses.

Here are TheVoice ratings from Monday.  Final ratings were 6.0 in the key demo, with 16M viewers.

8:00

FOX American Idol 4.9/14 15.35
CBS Survivor 2.8/8 10.32
ABC The Middle 2.3/7 7.50
NBC Whitney 1.5/4 4.13
CW One Tree Hill 0.7/2 1.37

8:30

ABC Suburgatory 2.3/6 6.79
NBC Are You There, Chelsea? 1.3/3 3.40

9:00

FOX American Idol 5.3/13 16.14
ABC Modern Family 4.7/12 11.48
CBS Criminal Minds 3.1/8 12.62
NBC Rock Center with Brian Williams 0.6/2 2.69
CW Remodeled 0.3/1 0.76

9:30

ABC Happy Endings 2.5/6 5.70

10:00

CBS CSI 2.8/8 11.77
NBC Law & Order: SVU 1.6/4 5.94
ABC 20/20 Special: Before They Were Famous 1.4/4 4.81

 
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  • Anonymous

    Winning isn’t everything, because this show is not about winning. It’s a platform to get noticed. Because there is no guarantees of success whether you when or lose. Just because you win, don’t mean your the best and just because because you don’t win, don’t mean the person who did win was better. It’s a popularity contest and being a sweet, kind, boring, white male is a great advantage on this show. As for people still talking about Haley’s performances, are probably her fans. People have to remember you to talk about you. 

  • hcpoirot

    Now all of idol rating rest on the Top 24. If 5-6 of them can sing and entertained us like s10, Idol still can bounced back. But if the top 12/13 filled with the same type singers (lots of diva belter, male playing instruments) , Idol will be lucky to hang with these numbers.

    And yes not to mention The Big bang Theory become funnier and funnier .

    The sad and irony part of idol is they paid tons and tons of money to the 3 judges and right now the judges did SQUAT alias ZERO effort try to be more interesting in the judging panel.

    They just say the same old compliments, some critics and thats it.

    They got paid the most combined, but they didnot do their job well.

    At least Ryan Seacrest still did his job pretty good compare to the judges.

  • http://twitter.com/ladymctech ladymctech

    OK so I can be partially blamed for WGWG votes for a few seasons. But last year I made an honest effort to look at others, LOL. I voted like crazy for Haley till she left, and then switched to Lauren. I hope this year that voters will take a serious look at the men who don’t fit this bill as well as some of the ladies who are very talented. 

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