American Idol appears to be the most popular show on broadcast television on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and in my personal opinion, for good reason. For the week of March 24, 2008, American Idol on Tuesday, which is of all the contestants singing, received a rating of 14 with 24.758 million viewers. The results show of American Idol on Wednesday, which says who got kicked off for that week, had a rating of 15.2 with 25.742 million viewers.

There are many other well liked shows on at the same time as American Idol and their ratings would most likely increase if they were moved to another time or day. ABC is the second most popular network for the 8 PM time frame for Tuesdays American Idol. This is because of the also extremely well liked TV show “Dancing with the Stars.” CBS was third with “NCIS”, NBC fourth with “The Biggest Loser,” and the CW last with “Beauty and the Geek.”

I have spoken to some people, old and young alike and most agree that they are at a loss as to what to watch on Tuesday Night because there are so many options and there are at least two of the five choices that they do not want to miss at all. Most of them watch one program and switch to another at commercials. This is frustrating for some people because they are not very impressed with the selection of television shows all of the other days of the week, and then all of their favorites are on the same night at the same time. However, to others they figure Tuesdays are the best day for these shows because they could care less about most of them, and like the fact that they do not interfere with the shows that they enjoy.

The ratings of some television shows would greatly benefit from being moved to another time or day. Although the rating of “Dancing with the Stars” is pretty high, it is still behind “American Idol.” If it were moved to another time, it might be the most popular for that night. But who knows? Because then it would have to compete with other shows that would be on at that time. This could cause a whole other issue. It all depends on personal preference, but I feel strongly that if all of these popular shows were on a different day or time, their ratings would go up.