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HOME > American Idol > American Idol 4 Vote error forces Fox to rebroadcast 'American Idol', reopen voting
By Reality TV World staff, 03/23/2005
Due to some on-screen graphics errors that resulted in the incorrect voting numbers being displayed for several of its eleven remaining American Idol finalists, Fox has announced that it has thrown out the votes from Tuesday evening's Week 2 finals performance show and will instead rebroadcast a new live and updated version of the one-hour performance show in the place of tonight's originally scheduled American Idol results show.
Due to the special Wednesday performance show rebroadcast, American Idol's results show will now air on Thursday at 9PM ET/PT. Anwar Robinson, Jessica Sierra, and Mikalah Gordon were the three finalists who had incorrect phone numbers displayed for their votes, with Anwar's graphic displaying the number for Carrie Underwood, Jessica's displaying Scott Savol number, and Mikalah's displaying that of Anthony Fedorov. While embarrassing for Fox, the voting gaffe is likely to prove more costly for its broadcast competitors -- particularly NBC. In addition to forcing an original episode of its already sagging The West Wing drama to air against a full hour of the top-rated Fox juggernaut, the move will also impact NBC's plan to take advantage of Survivor's absence from the Thursday 8PM slot and run The Apprentice from 8:30-9:30PM so that it can sandwich the premiere of its new heavily-promoted The Office series in between The Apprentice and ER. (Photo credit Fox) DISCUSS AND COMMENT ON THIS STORY Reality TV World has launched a trial program offering Facebook Comments on our stories to provide an enhanced user experience to our readers. To post a comment, log into Facebook and then 'Add' your comment. To report spam or abuse, click the 'X' in the upper right corner of the comment box.Get more Reality TV World! Follow us on Twitter, friend us on Facebook or subscribe to our RSS feed.
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