With a six year winning streak at stake, American Idol kept the streak alive, easily beating out the Olympics every half hour between 8p-10p with both adults 18-49 and total viewers. Between 8pm-10pm Idol averaged a 9.1/22 rating share with adults 18-49 and 24.64 million viewers. During that same period NBC averaged a 5.1/12 rating/share with adults 18-49 and 19.74 million but for the whole night (8p-11p) NBC averaged a 5.4/14 and 20.41 million viewers
Lost held up very well with a 4.5/10 rating/share with adults 18-49 at 9pm against the games, dropping, but not too far, from last week’s 4.9/12.
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