For the first time in many years,
Simon Cowell submitted to one of these mass phone press conferences with many big shot media entities there such as USA Today (
Brian Mansfield of "Idol Chatter"), the Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly and Showbiz Tonight/CNN. It happened at 7 p.m. EST. (He doesn't do a lot of one-on-one interviews)
The departing judge said his replacement will have to be someone with music
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