Only 29 Percent Of American Idol Viewers Stayed Tuned For SOTU

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Only 29 Percent Of American Idol Viewers Stayed Tuned For SOTU

"I hear that here at FNC, the execs were over the moon that American Idol was the SOTU lead-in on Fox broadcast," a tipster told TVNewser yesterday. The auditions did boost Fox, but most of the 8 p.m. viewers didn't stay on board for Bush. Lisa de Moraes reports:

"Though Bush clocked his biggest numbers on the Fox broadcast network, that's not to say he did such a hot job retaining the Idol audience. In its final half-hour, Tuesday's episode -- set in Las Vegas and featuring auditions of the above-mentioned Idol wannabes -- the singing competition logged 33 million viewers.

In his first half-hour of speechifying, Bush averaged about 9.5 million viewers on Fox. That's a lousy 29 percent retention rate, which would get him canceled faster than he could say Emily's Reasons Why Not if he were a TV series.

But, thankfully, he's not. And, by 9:30 p.m., which is how long it took another 3 million Fox viewers to realize the president wasn't just another bad audition for American Idol, that network's contribution to the SOTU audience had plunged to 6.9 million viewers."

[txindy]

1. The definition of "American Idol" does not include Junior.

Not even to Faux news groupies, it seems. :rofl:

[DainBramaged]

2. 6.9 million viewers. Weren't buyin' the bullshit obviously.

So nearly 80% of the viewers drooped out by 9:30.

Putrid. And so telling.

[AllegroRondo]

3. 29% of American Idol viewers fell asleep

and couldnt change the channel.

[JeffR]

4. I watched both

And the ridiculousness of American Idol was insufficient to prepare me for what came after.

[Fridays Child]

5. Yep. Friend of mine called during the SOTU address and she was PISSED!

She hates B*sh but she's not very "political," so she just turned off the TV.