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4/10: A new measurement tool? Stamps! And Idol Gives Back ratings
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rather than sandwich Josh Gracin’s interview in between Idol Gives Back and the results show blog entries, I’ll hold off until tomorrow.
But I got an interesting email from TiVo that predicts Syesha Mercado (above) is a goner tonight based on how many times a particular performance was watched in time-shifted form. Here’s the press release:
TiVo Inc. announced today a prediction of the “American Idol” contestant most likely to be voted off the show in this week’s eliminations. For past four weeks, TiVo has been using its second-by-second audience measurement to determine which performers had the highest and lowest viewership. It turns out, this information, especially among viewers who are watching on a timeshifted basis, is highly predictive of which contestant will be voted off. Viewers tend to rewind and watch their favorite performances multiple times, while fast-forwarding through the ones they don’t like. These viewing preferences correlate with voting patterns (for each week TiVo has measured). As always, the viewing information was collected in strict accordance to TiVo’s privacy policy, which uses a sample of completely anonymous data from 20,000 random anonymous subscribers, analyzed only in on an aggregated basis.
David Archuleta ranked in the highest audience numbers during his performance.
Syesha Mercado was the lowest on the totem pole this week, with the fewest viewers sticking around for her performance. For the past 4 weeks running, the person with the lowest viewership as recorded by TiVo subscribers has been voted to go home.
Intriguing!
Paula Abdul on Q100 today said she’s really worried for Carly Smithson, who is clearly in the danger zone, too. Some folks think Brooke might join them and make it an all-female bottom three but could Michael Johns be in trouble, too?
-Usually postage stamps only feature dead people but Idol has convinced the U.S. Postal Service, desperate for attention, to sell “Idol” stamps with “Idol” winners. According to USA Today,, if the limited edition stamps sell out, that would be $7 million for “Idol Gives Back.”
The stamps are not being sold in post offices. They’re available online only at PhotoStamps or linked via AmericanIdol.com, a product of Stamps.com, which offers USPS-approved, Internet-based postage services.
-“Idol Gives Back” pulled in only about 70% of the regular audience, not a surprise. It averaged 17.6 million from 8 to 10 p.m. based on preliminary numbers. Last year, the show pulled in 26 million viewers but that was because there was a pretense of a results show.
Comments
By JTesla
April 10, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this
Glad to hear we are still getting the Josh interview, I was starting to wonder about that.
It’s too bad that the Post Office sold out ;(
By Making Sense
April 10, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
FIRST! WOO-HOO!
By Willie the One Eyed Wonder Worm
April 10, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
FIRST!!!!!!!!!!
By Making Sense
April 10, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
Okay, so 2nd! JT, you’re good!
By Menana
April 10, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this
Thanks for the update RH. Not surprising that less people watched the show last night. It had it’s good parts as well as bad.
Hopefully, on the new thread, posters will be less tense.
By JTesla
April 10, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
Luck of the draw Making Sense.
By flats
April 10, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
Maybe blackburn got the message!!!!
By Willie the One Eyed Wonder Worm
April 10, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this
DAMMIT again
By flemsnopes
April 10, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this
Last night’s Idol Gives Back was one of the most self-congratulatory and smug “television events” we’ve had to sit though to date. Here’s a funny link about how Most of Us viewed it:
http://www.236.com/blog/w/chezpazienza/givetilithurts_5784.php
By flats
April 10, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this
Willie….Blackbird called you a belly crawler.
By Harmony
April 10, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this
Glad I missed blogging this morning. Hello Everyone. Neg, why did you have to go and make it harder for us females to resist you?
By linny ,,,=^..^=,,,
April 10, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
Neg, “resistance” was already futile — now we have to add another degree of hotness???? comeon Man, give us poor ladies a break (or something…)
strange day, indeed. ok (speaking to self) back to work linny, before the boss gets back!
see you guys later or tonight!
By Harmony
April 10, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
Deirdre , We are thinking of you, hope you get to return soon.
By flats
April 10, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this
FORBES.COM JUST VOTED ATLANTA THE WORST SPORTS CITY!!!!!
By Harmony
April 10, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this
Deirdre , We are thinking of you, hope you get to return soon.
By Deirdre
April 10, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
Harmony must be pyschic!!!
Yes, My computer has been plugged in again and I’m sitting in a room with beautiful hardwood floors. The workers are still here, tiling my kitchen at the moment.
I watched maybe a total of 10 minutes of IGB last night…snooze fest at best.
Looking forward to the eliminations tonight. I won’t be on much this afternoon because there’s just too much happening at my house that requires my attention but…I will be back! :-)
By flats
April 10, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this
Thanks Dfor checking in on us.We love u and hope things work out the best for u and family…wE HAD SOME TROUBLE EARLIER BUT I HANDLED IT!!TAKE CARE GIRL!
By JTesla
April 10, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this
Congratulations on the new floors Deirdre.
Flats, be happy at least you have more than one professional team. Here in Portland we have to drive three hours to Seattle for football or baseball.
By KPH
April 10, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this
Heart with Fergie was without a doubt the highlight of the show last night! THEY ROCKED THE HOUSE!
By Harmony
April 10, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this
I wonder if I could turn my pyschic abilities into a career?
By Negativo
April 10, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this
Neg will be BBQing delmonico steaks tonight. Peppers, onions, mushrooms, corn, watermellon, and, of course, lots of cold beer. That should put the Negster in the right mindset for playoff hockey and elimination Thursday, eh?
By linny ,,,=^..^=,,,
April 10, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this
oooooh Neg, what time is dinner? should i bring dessert?
By Harmony
April 10, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this
Talk to all of you later. They are coming to check my water and mold damage out in about a hour.
By Deirdre
April 10, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this
Neg’s making my mouth water!
Wait a minute, let me rephrase that…Neg’s menu is making my mouth water.
I’ll be watching the elimination, then the return of The Office…YEA!!!!!
By Negativo
April 10, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this
D: I’m a huge office fan, too. So glad it’s back.
By Mike S
April 10, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this
Actually JT it is debatable whether the Falcons can be classified as a Professional team anymore.
By Menana
April 10, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this
D: So glad your flooring is coming along. Know you will be glad when its all complete. Good thinh you change your sentence in your last post. You may have gotten some feedback from the unknowns.
Neg: Can I have my steak without mushrooms, please?
Linny: Hope the mold man can get rid of all the mold for you. That is some nasty stuff.
By flats
April 10, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this
Neg..that post gave me a stiffy!
By flats
April 10, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this
Neg….I bet your haircut looks hot.
By Menana
April 10, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this
On my last post, I should have addressed Harmony about the mold and not Linny. Sorry Linny, but I am not saying you are moldy.
Harm: I will repeat my message to you. Hope the mold man can get rid of the mold and you will have a safe house.
By flats
April 10, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this
WHERE DID ERBODY GO?????
By JTesla
April 10, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this
Flats, everybody is packing their bags to move to a city with a better sport outlook.
By flats
April 10, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this
They should…I had to put up with it for 30 years!!!!!THE BRAVES GOT SNOWED OUT!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!
By Negativo
April 10, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this
Flats, get your stiffy the hell away from me. I am a ladies man only.
Menana, steak sans shrooms - got it.
Linny, desert is spelled N-E-G.
Deirdre, my menu is always big on meat.
By linny ,,,=^..^=,,,
April 10, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this
Heh heh heh… ok, Neg, i get dessert but what do YOU get after dinner…
lordy you are walking reeeeeeally close to the line today, Neg, LOL!!!
By flats
April 10, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this
Neg..your steak talk gives me a stiffy..That’s all!
By Justin
April 10, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this
someone tell me why we can’t use this blog: http://ajcreader.portspaces.com/idolblog
By War Eagle
April 10, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this
Justin I have wondered the same thing myself. I think Linny and D have talked to Rodney and there is a reason I just don’t know what it is.
By ,,,=^..^=,,, from home
April 10, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this
Justin - while that blog link still exists, there is no guaranty of how long it will remain; newcomers to the AJC blogs wouldn’t have that link from the ‘main page’ of the online paper, and so, while we COULD use it, it would be tentative at best. The vendor was not renewed — it was a test, experiment, or whatever, apparently — and while they’ve not removed the actual url, we were told it was best NOT to use it by Rodney. Rodney was told that a new ‘interactive chat’ vendor would be chosen sometime this year; apparently there’s no hurry in the minds of the AJC decision-maker(s) on that topic. I’m not sure why the link still pulls up Rodney’s latest Blog… i may send him an email asking that question just to satisfy my own curiosity. We used to have registered logins/handles so that no one could use our exact name; i think that function IS disabled, i haven’t tried to register, but i know my old handle on the interactive blog is no longer ‘active’, and i had to put in a name and email addy to post there. it did let me post, but anyone i suppose could also post there using my name. so……
hope that helps!
By War Eagle
April 10, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this
Justin hop on over to the other blog and wait. I will send everyone else over when they post.
By ,,,=^..^=,,, from home
April 10, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this
LOL WE…. if justin trusts this, i have some ocean front property in oklahoma for him…
By War Eagle
April 10, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this
Not sure if he will or not Linny. I think it could go either way.
By x
April 10, 2008 7:17 PM | Link to this
LOL! linny has so many names she forgets and talks to herself!
By Justin
April 10, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this
uh ok…?
so about that TiVo thing… if it is true i don’t want to hear about it!! but then … how can they do it seriously. A lot of people don’t have TiVo, and that doesn’t tell who is getting votes… so i just don’t get it.
yeah…i’m just thinking up excuses cuz i want syesha to stay lol. doubt it’ll happen though.
I think it is safe to say that safety guarantees go to KLC (damn), and both davids.
Brooke or Michael, probably Michael, may be in the bottom, but will be sent back before they know it.
Syesha and Carly will be in the bottom, Carly for “scaring” purposes, and syesha leaving. oh well… we try :(
thing that gets me is… Haley Scarnato also came in 8th.. and though I liked her last year, she’s no where near Syesha’s skills.
I guess the only hope I have is them rigging it because it’d be awkward to have both afro girls go home in 8th place (syesha & nadia)
By JTesla
April 10, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this
Yeah Linny make up your mind do you want to post as Linny, Justin, War Eagle, or JTesla tonight? You’re confusing me.
By Justin
April 10, 2008 7:37 PM | Link to this
and look Jason’s so darn forgettable I forgot to include him
he is also guaranteed safety and they really need to switch up the results this time…
they should be different. i like them being told from the couches rather than them coming out from backstage each week and sittin in the seats—- gets boring & is not suspensful, cuz when it comes down to 3 people, and one being left for bottom 3 and they call out 2 people at the end one being in that bottom, well the person before them obviously is safe…
By War Eagle
April 10, 2008 7:39 PM | Link to this
I call War Eagle. You all can fight over the rest.
By JTesla
April 10, 2008 7:39 PM | Link to this
Justin the TiVo thing, and the information they can pull up, is a little spooky. I’m sure it is just one more way way to poll a cross section of America as to their tastes, but it is by no means fool proof.
By sandy
April 10, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this
After this week’s elimination, I am through with AI. Tiny Tim, I mean Jason Castro should have left a long time ago. Come on teeny boppers, it is about talent not about narly dreds!
By DENISE
April 10, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this
WELL I WISH BROOKE WOULD BE GONE AND CARLY STAY OVER HER.THEY ALWAYS MAKE EXCUSES FOR HER MISTAKES SHE IS SO OLD SCHOOL.I LIKE DAVID ACHALETTA BECAUSE HE IS SUCH A NEAT KID ,VERY GROUNDED FOR HIS AGE AND HE WOULD BE A GREAT CHRISTIAN SINGER FOR ONE .THIS WAS SURPRIZING THATS FOR SURE,OVER SOME THAT SHOULD GO! CHRISTY DID SO WELL THIS WEEK ,SHOWS SHE CAN BE REMEMBERED.
By cradlewillrock
April 17, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this
Have you seen Jeese Snider on Rock The Cradle? He’s definitely bringing rock back!
By cradlewillrock
April 17, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this
Have you seen Jeese Snider on Rock The Cradle? He’s definitely bringing rock back!
By cradlewillrock
April 17, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this
Who would have guessed that Michael Johns would depart so soon, the guy looked so natural on stage and sounded pretty good.
Are They Born To Rock? When Rockstars Raise You, Judges Are The Least Of Your Concerns. Rock The Cradle 10pm ET/PT MTV
By cradlewillrock
April 17, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this
Who would have guessed that Michael Johns would depart so soon, the guy looked so natural on stage and sounded pretty good.
Are They Born To Rock? When Rockstars Raise You, Judges Are The Least Of Your Concerns. Rock The Cradle 10pm ET/PT MTV
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