TV Ratings: Mostly steady night from the Winter Olympics, 'American Idol'

Thursday night American Idol mostly held its ground against the Sochi Winter Olympics, which slightly declined from the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.

NBC saw a slight decline from its coverage of the Winter Olympics in the ratings, down to a 5.9 in the advertiser important 18-49 demographic and 22.9 million viewers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The dips from 2010 are only slight, with the demo being down 17 percent and viewership to 9 percent.

Fox continues to schedule some original programming against the Winter Olympics and Thursday was another night of American Idol, which was only down slightly from the previous week to a 2.9 in the demo. For the night, Fox averaged a 2.0 in the demo and 6.95 million viewers. Other new show of the night Rake stabilized from its continual drops to remain at a 1.1 demo rating.

CBS came third on a night of all encores, but a decent demo rating of 1.6 and 7.02 million viewers, reports HitFix. The Big Bang Theory repeat was right on the tail of Idol during its timeslot, with a 2.8 in demo.

ABC aired a new episode of The Taste and the rest encores and managed only a 0.8 in the 18-49 demo and 2.78 million viewers. The cooking competition was anything but as it only managed a 0.8 in the demo, barely beating an encore of a CW show, and tying for a series low.

The CW got a 0.3 in the demo and 1.055 million for the night off the back of all repeats of Arrow and The Originals.

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