Editing American Idol (section)

===Season finale===
During the original run of ''American Idol'' on Fox, the finale week consisted of a one-hour long final performance night and a two-hour last episode of the season that culminates in revealing the winner, both of which are broadcast live in the U.S. [[Eastern time zone|Eastern]] and [[Central time zone|Central]] time zones. For the first, third through sixth and fourteenth through fifteenth seasons it was broadcast from the [[Dolby Theatre]], which has an audience capacity of approximately 3,400. The second-season finale took place at the [[Gibson Amphitheatre]], which had an audience capacity of over 6,000. In the seventh through thirteenth seasons, the venue was at the [[Peacock Theater|Nokia Theatre L.A. Live]], which holds an audience of over 7,000. Since the show's reboot on ABC, the venue remains the same throughout the entire show (excluding auditions), but was still two episodes in the sixteenth season, and then stretched to a single three-hour season finale that is annually [[Effects of time zones on North American broadcasting|aired live simultaneously in all U.S. territories]], starting with the seventeenth season. The eighteenth-season finale was conducted virtually due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]].