'Idol' ratings down from last year
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Fox's "American Idol" returned as the nation's most popular TV series, but with 4 million fewer viewers than the 2007 season premiere.
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ABC's "Duel" was a dud, but a good-natured singing competition on NBC engaged more television viewers in the week leading up to Christmas.
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NEW YORK  - Viewers swarmed to NBC's "Singing Bee" on Tuesday night as Fox's telecast of baseball's All-Star Game dropped to near-historic lows.
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After two consecutive years of declining TV ratings, NASCAR may put the brakes on change and focus on reclaiming its bond with core fans.
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The scales of "American Idol" may have tipped in Ruben Studdard's favor in 2003, but there are other scales he would like to tip a bit less.
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The music channel is trying to make its way in a multidevice, multiplatform, multichannel world and has suffered a decline in ratings and cultural cachet.
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Drawing an average of 24.6 million viewers, âAmerican Idolâ on Fox dominated Wednesday nightâs ratings.
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Blah. If any word were to sum up this year's mostly bland and sometimes unwatchable batch of "Idol" contestants, that'd be it.
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The tears flowed on "American Idol" Wednesday night as the show trimmed the competition to 24 semifinalists.
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WASHINGTON -- &quot;American Idol&quot; continues to hack away at the dreams of thousands of singers in Washington.
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Without "American Idol" to worry about, the Grammy Awards bounced back strongly in the ratings this year.
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"American Idol" piled up more gargantuan ratings in its third week and helped make the Fox network medical drama "House" the most-watched scripted broadcast on U.S. television this season.
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Fox dominated the ratings on Tuesday, thanks to two popular shows, âAmerican Idolâ at 8 p.m. and âHouseâ at 9. Those shows delivered 28.1 million and 22.5 million viewers, Nielsen estimated. A repeat of CBSâs âNCISâ at 8 attracted the nightâs third-largest audience (11.7 million). CBSâs all-rerun lineup tied NBC for runner-up on the night, but NBC fared better among adults 18 to 49 with âThe Biggest Loserâ at 8 (8.3 million) followed by âLaw & Order: Special Victims Unitâ at 10 (9.4 million). ABC finished fourth overall. On Monday President Bushâs final State of the Union address attracted the smallest audience of his two terms, 37.5 million viewers. That tally was 8 million fewer than a year ago, but 6 million more than President Clintonâs last State of the Union address in 2000. The speech was broadcast live at 9 p.m. on a total of nine network and cable channels.
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LOS ANGELES  - Fox's "American Idol"  creamed the competition again on Tuesday, raking in nearly 30  million viewers in its second week on the air.
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Fox and NBC tied for the  demographic win in primetime, while CBS won in viewership  during the last week of the 2006-07 TV season, Nielsen Media  Research said Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES - When cable channel HBO tried to woo the Emmy Awards away two years ago, the networks fought back and won. Network executives could be rethinking the victory in light of the poor ratings posted by Sunday's ceremony, watched by the smallest audience since 1990...
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Ratings for the MTV  Video Music Awards plunged 31% among viewers in the cable  network's target demographic, those aged 12-34.