'Idol' attracts more than 32m viewers
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NEW YORK - There's a reason why rival television executives
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By Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 6--This week's episodes of "American Idol" nearly didn't happen for  some Pittsburgh fans.
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The 11.9 million viewers who watched "The Sopranos" finale brought HBO to the edge of a historic feat: a show on a pay cable network available in about 30 million homes was more popular last week than all but one show on the far larger world of broadcast television.
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In recent months, an unexpected late-night surge for ABC as the audience for ÂJimmy Kimmel LiveÂ increases to 1.5 million viewers.
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It has won just about every award in television, and an audience of millions around the world.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - "American Idol" is poised to set ratings records when Fox's talent show returns to the airwaves with a four-hour season premiere on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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The finale of ITV1's I'm a Celebrity... attracts about four million fewer viewers than the previous series.
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Despite a stellar turnout, Saturday night's Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope was not a ratings blockbuster. The two-hour, mostly live show averaged 5.7 million viewers on NBC, according to preliminary estimates, which showed Fox's football telecast averaging 21.5 million.
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Sure, winning American Idol is pretty much an aspiring   singer's golden ticket to stardom. But even appearing on the show--let   alone making the top three--allows a contestant who plays his or her   cards right to extend their fame far beyond the requisite 15 minutes.
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More than 36 million &quot;American  Idol&quot; fans watched the star-studded finale of the hit talent  show on Wednesday night as gray-haired soul crooner Taylor  Hicks was crowned the winner in a dramatic close to the 2005-06  U.S. television season.
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WASHINGTON  The hottest campaign in town this week? It&#39;s not for president. It&#39;s for Idol. Producers for Fox&#39;s top-rated talent series estimate that 21,000 candidates and their supporters ...
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"American Idol" returns this week with a two-night, four-hour season premiere. (Michael Becker/Fox) Is âAmerican Idol,â televisionâs top-rated show, still as strong as ever? Last springâs season of the Fox reality juggernaut marked the first time that overall viewership declined from the previous year, Edward Wyatt noted in Mondayâs New York Times. But the singing competition [...].
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U.S. television's top show,  "American Idol," returned to prime time with 33.4 million  viewers, down sharply from last year's record season debut but  still more watched than the four other major networks combined,  according to ratings on Wednesday.
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Ratings for Fox's top-ranked  "American Idol" will probably decline as the television talent  search show enters its fourth season this week, a network  official said on Monday.
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Music videos have become a collective effort, with artists competing with fans.
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This season âHouseâ has reached as many as 17.5 million viewers a week. And those numbers were scored before the show enjoyed what it will enjoy again, starting Tuesday â the adjacency to âIdol.â
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India has always needed idols - they are easier to worship than any abstract spirits. In films, audiences have always identified with larger than life characters.