{"id":317,"date":"2010-02-18T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2010-02-18T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T05:07:00","slug":"battle-of-the-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/battle-of-the-titans\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates? Google vs Yahoo? <em>NYT <\/em>vs<em> Washington Post<\/em>? Nope! <em>American Idol<\/em> vs the <em>Vancouver Winter Olympic Games<\/em> on NBC. This week saw the ever-popular Olympic games up against the Fox reality TV powerhouse <em>American Idol<\/em>. Early ratings suggest that the match is tied at 1 and 1. Fox took the title on Tuesday evening with a 2-hour elimination episode that pulled a 22 share among adults 18-49, while NBC won Wednesday evening thanks to six American medals, including gold medal performances\u00a0 by Lindsey &#8220;Play Through the Pain&#8221; Vonn and Shaun &#8220;The Flying Tomato&#8221; White. Last night was the first time that <em>American Idol<\/em> lost their time slot since April of 2004!<\/p>\n<p>One moment of controversy arose when Shaun White&#8217;s coach dropped the S-bomb on live TV during their victory celebration. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nbc-wont-face-fines-for-the-celebratory-f-bomb-from-shaun-whites-coach-2010-2\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a> the indecent language will not invite the wrath of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/eb\/oip\/FAQ.html\" target=\"_blank\">FCC<\/a> since the broadcast aired in the Safe Harbor time&#8230;at least on the East Coast, not sure if it aired before 10pm in either Rocky Mountain or West Coast time zones. In either case the bigger story may be that NBC was actually airing something live. NBC has been receiving criticism for its decision to tape delay the broadcast of downhill skiing in order to save this popular event for their more lucrative prime-time audience. For the die-hard fans out there, anything less than live is a compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates? Google vs Yahoo? NYT vs Washington Post? Nope! American Idol vs the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games on NBC. This week saw the ever-popular Olympic games up against the Fox reality TV powerhouse American Idol. Early ratings suggest that the match is tied at 1 and 1. Fox took the title &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/battle-of-the-titans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Battle of the Titans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-industry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}