So You Think You Can Dance premiered on July 20th, 2005 at 8:00 PM.
4 rating in its target demographic, although with the start of America's Got Talent roughly a month later in the same timeslot, Dance fell to No
 In 2010, Lythgoe, with the assistance of other SYTYCD personalities and long-time healthy lifestyles proponent Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, was successful in getting another of his dance-oriented concepts realizedan official National Dance Day, now held annually on the last Saturday of July, to promote fitness through movement

