Wednesday Ratings: American Idol Slips from Last Week

By On 03/01/2012 · 101 Comments · In American Idol, Ratings

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Ratings are in from TVByTheNumbers

Fox easily won the night in the adults 18-49 ratings and total viewership, as American Idol slipped 4% to a 4.9 adults 18-49 rating, vs. a 5.1 rating last week. Recent final ratings adjustments are likely to narrow that gap by a tenth of a point.

8:00PM FOX

American Idol (8-10p) 4.9 13 17.03
CBS Survivor: One World 2.9 8 10.56
ABC The Middle 2.6 8 8.49
NBC Whitney 1.5 4 4.13
CW One Tree Hill 0.7 2 1.56

8:30PM

ABC Suburgatory 2.4 6 7.19
NBC Are You There, Chelsea? 1.3 4 3.54

9:00PM

ABC Modern Family 4.8 12 11.68
CBS Criminal Minds 3.1 8 12.50
NBC Rock Center 0.7 2 2.89
CW America’s Next Top Model (premiere) 0.6 1 1.29

9:30PM

ABC Happy Endings 2.8 7 6.18

10:00PM

CBS CSI 2.6 7 11.22
ABC Revenge 2.4 6 7.42
NBC Law & Order: SVU 1.6 4 5.38

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  • Anonymous

    I think it’s a little late in the ball game for Nigel and Idol to be worrying about luring the black voter back to the show. They didn’t care about the black audience when the ratings were great, now that their sinking like the Titanic, the decide they want a more racially diverse show. The problem is not the number of black contestants, but them choosing the wrong type of black contestant. They need more of the hip/hop urban type and less of the old style R&B artist. In my opinion, the black audience has accepted the fact that the winner of Idol, with be a white male. It’s practically set in stone at this point. 

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