{"id":581976,"date":"2010-05-27T18:03:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T22:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=106392"},"modified":"2010-05-27T18:03:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T22:03:45","slug":"%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d-finale-attracts-smallest-audience-since-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581976","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAmerican Idol\u201d Finale Attracts Smallest Audience Since 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Lee-DeWyze-American-Idol-2010-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lee-DeWyze-American-Idol-2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-106199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The numbers are in and it&#8217;s official: No one cares about <em>Idol<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s Season 9 finale drew its lowest audience since the talent show&#8217;s first season finale in the summer of 2002; only 22.8 million viewers tuned in that year. An estimated 24.2 million viewers tuned in to watch dark horse paint salesman Lee DeWyze beat projected winner Crystal Bowersox to victory, according to preliminary ratings figures issued Thursday. Despite a grand finale that served as Simon Cowell&#8217;s swan song as the bitter voice of reason on the judge&#8217;s panel, the <em>Idol<\/em> audience shrank from 28.8 million last year and 31.6 million in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/B21skO3dU76yXN8n5PjuhO31phw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/B21skO3dU76yXN8n5PjuhO31phw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/B21skO3dU76yXN8n5PjuhO31phw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/B21skO3dU76yXN8n5PjuhO31phw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers are in and it&#8217;s official: No one cares about Idol. Last night&#8217;s Season 9 finale drew its lowest audience since the talent show&#8217;s first season finale in the summer of 2002; only 22.8 million viewers tuned in that year. An estimated 24.2 million viewers tuned in to watch dark horse paint salesman Lee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}