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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.1/7 | 1.5/5 | 1.0/3 | 0.9/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 5.96 | 4.58 | 5.19 | 4.05 |
Note: coverage of live events like last night's ABC College Football telecast makes ABC's numbers approximate and subject to greater than normal adjustment. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate ratings.
ABC's Saturday Night College Football matchup between Penn State and Iowa easily won the night, and did a bit better than Texas/Texas Tech last week. Fox's reality crime put in a credible performance as usual.
Here are the half hour results from Marc Berman / MediaWeek:
8:00 p.m.
ABC – Saturday Night Football
Viewers: 5.76 million (#1), A18-49: 1.8/ rating/7 share (#1)
CBS – CSI (R)
Viewers: 3.99 million (#3), A18-49: 0.8/ 3 (#3)
NBC – Law & Order (R)
Viewers: 3.25 million (#4), A18-49: 0.5/ 2 (#4)
Fox – Cops
Viewers: 4.02 million (#2), A18-49: 1.4/ 5 (#2)
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8:30 p.m.
ABC – Saturday Night Football
Viewers: 5.64 million (#1), A18-49: 1.8/ 7 (#1)
CBS – CSI (R)
Viewers: 4.62 million (#2), A18-49: 1.0/ 3 (#3)
NBC – Law & Order (R)
Viewers: 3.71 million (#4), A18-49: 0.7/ 2 (#4)
Fox – Cops (R)
Viewers: 4.56 million (#3), A18-49: 1.5/ 5 (#2)
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9:00 p.m.
ABC – Saturday Night Football
Viewers: 6.16 million (#1), A18-49: 2.2/ 7 (#1)
CBS – The Good Wife (R)
Viewers: 4.88 million (#2), A18-49: 0.9/ 3 (#3t)
NBC – Mercy (R)
Viewers: 3.91 million (#4), A18-49: 0.9/ 3 (#3t)
Fox – America’s Most Wanted
Viewers: 4.79 million (#2), A18-49: 1.6/ 5 (#2)
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9:30 p.m.
ABC – Saturday Night Football
Viewers: 5.72 million (#1), A18-49: 2.1/ 7 (#1)
CBS – The Good Wife (R)
Viewers: 5.29 million (#2), A18-49: 0.9/ 3 (#3t)
NBC – Mercy (R)
Viewers: 3.71 million (#4), A18-49: 0.9/ 3 (#3t)
Fox – America’s Most Wanted
Viewers: 4.95 million (#2), A18-49: 1.6/ 5 (#2)
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10:00 p.m.
ABC – Saturday Night Football
Viewers: 6.01 million (#1), A18-49: 2.2/ 7 (#1)
CBS – 48 Hours Mystery (season premiere)
Viewers: 5.81 million (#2), A18-49: 1.3/ 4 (#2)
NBC – Law & Order: SVU (R)
Viewers: 4.44 million (#3), A18-49: 1.1/ 3 (#3)
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10:30 p.m.
ABC – Saturday Night Football
Viewers: 6.46 million (#2), A18-49: 2.5/ 8 (#1)
CBS – 48 Hours Mystery (season premiere)
Viewers: 6.53 million (#1), A18-49: 1.4/ 4 (#2t)
NBC – Law & Order: SVU (R)
Viewers: 5.36 million (#3), A18-49: 1.4/ 4 (#2t)
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From NBC:
In late-night metered-market households Saturday night:
- The 35th season premiere of Saturday Night Live (4.6/11 in metered-market households), hosted by Megan Fox and featuring musical guest U2, dominated its time period.
- Saturday Night Live delivered the #1 rating of the night in the metered markets, topping all primetime telecasts on all the major networks. In fact, SNL outscored every Saturday primetime and late-night telecast on every major network over the past 16 weeks (since June 6).
- Last year's season debut, boosted by extraordinary interest in the 2008 Presidential Election and a guest appearance by Tina Fey as Gov. Sarah Palin, earned a 7.5/18 in metered-market households on September 13, 2008. Two years ago, SNL opened with a 4.5/11 on September 29, 2007.
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You can see TV ratings from other recent Overnight ratings reports here.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source: Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
For more information see Numbers 101 and Numbers 102.
nice repeat numbers for The Good Wife
SVU also seemed to repeat pretty well (for a Saturday, anyways) – seems like the show *could* perform better if it was put in a less-competitive timeslot…..or maybe people were just bored last night
Excellent ratings for an excellent team! Go Hawkeyes!
How did SNL do?
What’a amazing to me is that Cops is still doing so well – it even added demo viewers the second half hour. … I’m glad for Iowa, but sad that the way ESPN has it arranged here in the Miodwest, I’m subjected to nothing but Big Ten games until like four in the afternoon, when there are actually ARE other choices besides college ball. Isn’t the Big Ten about the same level as the WAC or something by now?
Knope, I haven’t seen anything yet, but if NBC sends anything out today, I’m sure we’ll see it.
We could see an opening week upset for the first time in years. To Saturday, CBS leads ABC 11.6 million to 11.1 million. ABC’s Saturday numbers will probably increase a bit in finals (the football always does). If ABC can do well tonight, it would win opening week in viewers.
the big ten at the top is as good as any other conference so what you saw is the best of college football
I always say that the original Law & Order should move to Saturdays at 10:00.
GO HAWKS!
IOWA PRIDE!!!!!!!!!!
We feed the world and we’re one of the nicest states.
LET’S GO HAWKS!!!!
Leave it to the Hawkeyes to spike up the ratings! America’s Team?
Okay, very stoked Iowa fan here. Ratings wise a fairly close night with all involved. I think in a couple weeks ABC has a NASCAR race and CBS has the collge football game (most likely FLorida-LSU with the added drama if Tim Tebow will comeback or not).
I wonder if NBC ever considered moving a big Notre Dame game to evening or early evening. I would think the USC or a Big Ten matchup with the Irish would garner decent numbers unless it is in the contract that they do not do night games.
You’re not going to get too many people who know about college football to agree the Big Ten is one of the best or even in the middle. Yeah, the one team at the top – Penn St. – just lost, and they, like Notre Dame are always a sentimental as opposed to actual powerhouse. ( They mean too much TV revenue to the NCAA. They’re too big to fail, like GM and Goldman Sachs.) The Ivy League or MAC is probably good at the top, too. The point is to have MORE than one or two teams who deserve to be in the Top 25 every year. More than one or two, advanced over their true value advanced by the sports media and pressure from wealthy alumni, ” at the top.” I would like to see the huge megaschools like Michigan, Michiga St, Ohio St and Wisconsin playing the MAC though, on TV — because the upset alerts would be constantly flying.
has the seeker premiered yet for this season, how did it fair?
the good wife is sooo good
Good Wife repeat increased on the half hou, good sign. I hope it will help it sustain its Tuesday ratings
Did anyone happen to catch the abysmal season premiere of SNL last night? Megan Fox was the host and I didn’t expect her to be all that bad, but I was wrong. I couldn’t believe this was the premiere. No one and nothing was funny, except for the always hilarious Kristen Wiig, but the biggest shocker of the ep was when new cast member Jenny Slate slipped an f-bomb in her skit. Check out the link below for the full story.
http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/megan-fox-in-wigs-and-jenny-slates-fcc-moment-the-top-five-moments-of-saturday-night-lives-season-premiere–629