American Idol Ratings
Continue To Plummet
May 11. 2009
Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell
American Idol's Simon Fuller, at truly contemptible man,
has been resorting to cheap, gimmick ridden tactics to
compensate for the falling ratings of the franchise. Fuller
stole the show American Idol from a Texas man and paired it with
a string of
criminal copyright
infringing music that is sure to see him incarcerated.
Simon Cowell
Employing the same cheap, unwise tactic he did with former
artists like the Spice Girls, who fell out of favor with
audiences, he has overexposed and over-marketed the show into
failure and public aversion. In short, people are sick of it.
The first American Idol Kelly Clarkson
Much like people currently mock and deride the Spice Girls,
with music history rubbishing them as a novelty act with no
credibility, the same shall be said of American Idol in coming
years, but worse, with all associated with it consigned to the
annals of entertainment history as foolishness, built on theft,
that did not produce anything real or lasting.
STORY SOURCE
No Slowing in Cash Flow for
‘Idol’
Published: May 10, 2009 -
LOS ANGELES — Can a television show
with a shrinking audience actually. In the case of “American Idol,” the
answer is yes, and the manner that the show’s creators are going
about it could change the way that producers and broadcast
networks think about the longevity of reality television
programs...
That is particularly noteworthy
given that, according to Nielsen Media Research, the average
audience for “American Idol” peaked three years ago, at more
than 30 million viewers an episode. This season, each episode is
attracting about 25 million viewers an episode...
The revenue and profits of 19
Entertainment have grown even more quickly, according to the
financial statements of CKX. Its revenues from “American Idol”
alone grew to $96 million last year from $67 million two years
earlier, with gross profit margins expanding to 77 percent from
69 percent in that span...
http://www.nytimes.com
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