The enormous success of the show and the revenue it generated was transformative for Fox Broadcasting Company. American Idol and fellow competing shows Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire were altogether credited for expanding reality television programming in the United States in the 1990s and 2000s, and Idol became the most watched non-scripted primetime television series for almost a decade, from 2003 to 2012, breaking records on U.S. television (dominated by drama shows and sitcoms in the preceding decades).
ఎన్ని సంవత్సరాలు అమెరికన్ ఐడల్ టెలివిజన్ లో అత్యధిక రేటింగ్ పొందిన రియాలిటీ షో?
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