The folks over at "American Idol" have hit a XXX snag by upping the final 12 to 13 this year. Turns out the sequenced telephone number for contestant 13 is already in use -- by a phone sex company."A.I" only owns twelve numbers (1-866-IDOLS-01 through 1-866-IDOLS-12) -- the prescient porn company snatched up 1-866-IDOLS-13.
Serves the AI producers' oh-so-PC butts right...
Yeah it will be interesting to see what they do about it. The first I heard of this was Sunday, per my post via Dial Idol
From Dial Idol
Hey all - so I spend so much time working on DialIdol during the year I don’t often have my pulse on everything going on outside of DialIdol. That’s usually where you all keep me up-to-date and I appreciate it!
One thing I noticed this weekend while I was testing and I am wondering if anyone had heard anything about - phone numbers!
We all know the phone numbers to vote : 1-866-436-5701 through 5712.
Usually if you call these numbers outside a voting window they are busy and that is the case today.
However... This year there are 13 contestants. It appears that American Idol does not own 1-866-436-5713 (or 1-866-436-5700 for that matter). I’d advise you not to call either number as the content is not rated G.
This raises the question - what the heck are they going to do for the 13th contestant? Has anything heard anything? New numbers? New voting system entirely? A lone non-contiguous number? Are they frantically trying to buy the number? Am I just dialing wrong?
Hmmm...
Jim
http://www.dialidol.com/asp/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6910
9,695 posted on Sunday, March 08, 2009 9:48:53 AM by Netizen
