The show was filmed in Buenos Aires and was transmitted to over 23 nations in the region via the Sony Entertainment Television network.
The show's hosts are the Venezuelan Erika de La Vega and Argentine Monchi Balestra.
The public starts voting and the next day the results show of each workshop takes place.
After the Hispanic America's decision is revealed, the judges rescue two of the seven semi-finalists that were not chosen by the public to participate in the last workshop, the Wild Card.
Latin American Idol's normal format shows that there should be just 10 finalists (This has just been fulfilled in the first season).
Two people who are rescued from each workshop make 6 semi-finalists totally to participate en the Wild Card, from which the panel of judges just choose one of them.
Everything that is worthing for elimination is the public's vote, the panel of judges just express their opinions in the performances.
In the rest of Hispanic America people have to text to 43657 (IDOLS) and in Puerto Rico because of being a territory of the United States is obtained a special number, 55225.
There the production record everything the finalists do in their countries, besides sending with them to the singer mentors to prepare them for the semi-final concert.
The show's production write two songs fully unpublished so that the finalists sing them in this concert.
The results show of this last concert is called the great final because in this one is decided who is the new Latin American Idol.
The great final is the largest episode of the season because the auditions and the two parts of the theater last one hour on air.
When finishing the show it is decided who the winner is based on the publics' vote and gets a contract with Sony BMG.
On 2 August, the making of the First Workshop was made, were the finalists were chosen: Gabriel Suárez, Lilia Mariñelarena and Mayré Martínez.
On 9 August 2007, the second workshop, in which the ones who went to the next stage were Isa Mosquera, Dennis Smith and Andrea del Valle.
On 17 August, the last threesome of finalists chosen was revealed: Efraín Medina, Hernán López and Noelia Soto.
John Paul Ospina turned into the first Wild Card of Latin American Idol and also is the only one in getting the workshop of the last chance without surprises of choosing more finalists.
After the two stages of the galas it was got to the semifinal membered by Mayré Martínez from Venezuela, Noelia Soto from Argentina and Efraín Medina from Mexico, resulting eliminated the Mexican contestant, which made finalists to the Venezuelan Mayré Martínez and the Argentinian Noelia Soto, at the end of the season, each finalist sang three (3) themes, two unpublished and their favorite sang in the competition, the voting was spread out to twenty-four (24) hours, having the Venezuelan Mayré Martínez, winner of the competition, and the only contestant who wasn't proposed to be eliminated.
In declarations subsequent to the final, the judge Gustavo Sánchez announced that Mayré had received 76.5% of the total votes.
The judged gave some songs to make contestants choose what they want to sing in their duets and solo performances.
In these, the two first finalists from CentroAmerica were chosen in the competition; Carlos Peña from Guatemala and Arquímedes Reyes from El Salvador.
Also the panel of judges chose the first finalists under age of the competition, Francisco Pérez from Colombia and Emiliano Sansone from Argentina.
For the first time in the competition, the judges just chose one female contestant of the three first workshops, Silvia de Freitas from Venezuela.
In the third workshop many were taken surprisingly because the judges and the production improvised and decided to save more people and three finalists more were chosen in the Wildcard show instead of just one.
In this workshop the first finalist from Caribe, Rosángela Abreu from Puerto Rico made it to the finals.
Incredibly the Argentinian contestants who had 4 representatives among the finalists were eliminated quickly: two in the first concert, one in the second and the last one in the third.