{"id":1003,"date":"2009-12-23T11:21:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T11:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/12\/if-simon-cowell-left-american.html"},"modified":"2009-12-23T11:21:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T11:21:15","slug":"if-simon-cowell-left-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/12\/if-simon-cowell-left-american.html","title":{"rendered":"If Simon Cowell left American Idol, would you watch more or less?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediacurves.com\/Entertainment\/J7683-SimonLeavesIdol\/Index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">HCD Research just released results <\/a>from a small poll they did about American Idol. They asked 800 viewers if they would watch American Idol more, less, or the same if judge Simon Cowell left the show.<br \/>\nThe results? About 46% they&#8217;d watch either more or the same; only 7% said less. Cowell was also picked as the respondents&#8217; favorite judge.<br \/>\nHow about you? Paula Abdul is already gone and new judge Kara DioGuardi got mixed results in her first season. If Simon Cowell left, would you continue to watch the show?<br \/>\nThe new season of American Idol kicks off in January with new judge Ellen DeGeneres. It promises to be an interesting and fun season.<br \/>\nFor more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanidol.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Idol, visit the show&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HCD Research just released results from a small poll they did about American Idol. They asked 800 viewers if they would watch American Idol more, less, or the same if judge Simon Cowell left the show. The results? About 46% they&#8217;d watch either more or the same; only 7% said less. Cowell was also picked&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-idol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>If Simon Cowell left American Idol, would you watch more or less? - Gospel Soundcheck<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/12\/if-simon-cowell-left-american.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"If Simon Cowell left American Idol, would you watch more or less? - Gospel Soundcheck\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HCD Research just released results from a small poll they did about American Idol. 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