Ooops, American Idol overrun means customers missed Jordin’s win
Did you TiVo the season finale of American Idol? If you did, it means you missed Jordin Sparks being crowned the American Idol winner!
Fox has apologized for Wednesday night’s broadcast of American Idol’s sixth season finale extending beyond its scheduled two-hour run, Broadcasting & Cable reported Thursday, with the network offering the somewhat lame excuse that it was due to the finale airing live. However the mea culpa no doubt comes as little condolence to viewers who recorded the finale using a DVR, as they missed 17-year-old Glendale, AZ-native Jordin Sparks being announced as the youngest winner in Idol’s history, which occurred at 10:03PM ET.
“We’re sorry that DVR users may have missed the conclusion of the American Idol broadcast,” a spokesperson for Fox said in a statement, according to Broadcasting & Cable. “It was always our intention to bring the show in on time, but just as with any live sports, variety, awards or entertainment event, there is no way to absolutely guarantee that the show will end exactly on the hour. Fox and the producers apologize to those viewers who were inconvenienced.”
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why they aren’t turning this into a huge marketing opportunity, with a season recap featuring never before scene footage of Jordin and other finalists, ending with Ryan Seacrest revealing the winner, and the rest of us - who watched it live - also getting to see Jordin actually finish singing the song after the win, as well as reaction of the judges seeing her win, rather than cutting it off to go to local news as those of us who watched in live saw.
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