America's Got Talent (season 4)
| Broadcast from | June 23 – September 16, 2009 |
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| Judges |
David Hasselhoff Piers Morgan Sharon Osbourne |
| Host(s) | Nick Cannon |
| Broadcaster | NBC |
| Website | www |
| Kevin Skinner | |
Kevin Skinner
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| Origin | Mayfield, Kentucky |
| Genre(s) | Country music |
| Bárbara Padilla | |
The fourth season of America's Got Talent, an American television reality show talent competition, premiered on the NBC network on June 23, 2009. Country singer Kevin Skinner was named the winner on September 16, 2009. This season is the first season to be broadcast in high definition.
This season's host is Nick Cannon, who replaced Jerry Springer. Springer had said that he could not host due to other commitments.David Hasselhoff, Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne returned judges, despite rumors that Osbourne would be leaving the show.
Season four was Hasselhoff's final season as a judge.
This season started broadcasting live on August 4, 2009.
Season four carried over season three's audition process. Out of the over 160 acts that passed through the preliminary auditions, 48 went on to perform in the live shows. This season, the callbacks were renamed "The Vegas Verdicts". Unlike previous seasons, the acts were not given a chance to perform a second time, unless prompted by the judges to as a challenge. The judges re-watched audition tapes and created a Top 40 based on the acts' preliminary performances, similar to the format used on sister show Britain's Got Talent. However, it was revealed during the first performance show that the judges, when prompted by executive producer Simon Cowell, called back eight acts that they previously had cut. This brought the total number of acts up to 48. Last season, the acts who passed through were divided into four groups, who performed over the course of two weeks with the acts who passed through from the previous night being announced before the next group of acts' performances. This year, each group in the Top 48 was divided into four groups of 12, but only one group performed per week, as a separate results show for the group aired the next day. This season was the first to feature results episodes lasting one hour on a weekly basis since season one.
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