Sunday, July 12, 2026

“The Voice” Rocks Highest Ratings, Giving NBC a Little Light in Darkness

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“American Idol” would love these ratings. NBC’s “The Voice” scored a whopping 4.9 Monday night in the key age demo. The singing contest also pulled in a total of 13.67 million viewers. The show was so hot that it beat the NCAA Basketball pre-game show and took its time period easily. “The Voice” has broken out as a show that attracts a young audience compared to “American Idol”–now sort of like “Lawrence Welk” with key demo numbers around 2.8. An even older skewing show is last night’s “Dancing with the Stars,” which rated a 2.0 in the key demo even though it pulled in 12.94 million viewers. That means that most of the people watching “Dancing with the Stars” may have had trouble getting up and walking to the kitchen for a snack unaccompanied by an aide.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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