Of home viewing, 89.9% was watched live as it was broadcast, down from 90.3% in 2011.
Idol now averages 24 million viewers a broadcast, down from its high of 31 million in 2006.
Yes, if you were to break Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast down by onscreen time, in fact, there might (maybe) actually be more football action than there will be commercials touting the peerless heterosexuality of some (but not all!) brands of headache-scented lite beer or illustrating the equally not-gay hauling-a-cruise-ship-up-a-mountain power of some (but not all!) pickup trucks.
Professional life began with Phyllis playing for ballet classes, and early television broadcasts closed down with a close-up of her hands playing suitably goodnight music.
The two Royal Opera live broadcasts are down from five last year, and few of the half-dozen Italian opera houses handled by Emerging Pictures have signed on again this season, at least so far.
Secombe, the most semi-detached member of the gang, usually joined them only for the recordings of the broadcasts, motoring down in a battered car from his singing and comedy engagements at music halls throughout the country.
The strikers of Karnataka have closed every school in the state, stopped trains and traffic and broadcasts, shut down every office and brought to a halt even Bengalooru, better known as Bangalore, the high-tech capital of India, symbol of the country's modernity and sophistication.
The chairman, Julian, expects the fellows to film, broadcast, write down their agony.
Most satellites receive signals from earth and broadcast them down again in a wide swath.
