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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.4/11 | 1.8/6 | 1.3/4 | 0.8/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 10.06 | 5.23 | 4.21 | 3.87 |
Note: coverage of live events like last night's NCAA College Football telecasts on CBS and ABC, and the President's Cup on NBC makes those numbers approximate and subject to greater than normal adjustment.
See definitions below for more information on these Fast Affiliate ratings.
The number one Florida Gators went to Baton Rouge to face the number four LSU Tigers and came away with a 13-3 victory, and CBS Tim Tebow and the Florida vs. LSU game were a much bigger draw than the ABC game feturing Michigan at number 12 Iowa. Iowa hung on to win 30-28, but not nearly as many people saw it.
Even though the results here are approximate, and will certainly be adjusted quite a bit, CBS will still come out on top by a fairly wide margin. And barring surprising adjustments, ABC's coverage will trail FOX's normal Saturday fair of Cops and America's Most Wanted.
Approximately 90 minutes of overrun into primetime fo coverage of the President's Cup golf coverage at Harding Park in San Francisco was watched by a relative few on NBC. It also throws off NBC's results (and times) a bit more than normal.
All the details below are courtesy of Marc Berman including the half hourly detail for the Florida vs. LSU game. I didn't see the data directly and I don't have any explanations for the drop at 9:30pm, though the last half hour was certainly impressive for a Saturday night.
Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | College Football: Florida vs. LSU (8p-11p) | 3.4/6 | 10.06 |
| FOX | Cops | 1.8/6 | 5.11 | |
| ABC | College Football: Michigan vs. Iowa (8p-11p) | 1.3/4 | 4.21 | |
| NBC | Golf: Presidents cup (8p-9:30p) | 0.6/2 | 3.70 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | America's Most Wanted | 1.9/6 | 5.34 |
| 9:30 | NBC | Trauma (R) | 0.6/2 | 2.73 |
| 10:00 | NBC | Law & Order: SVU (R) | 1.2/3 | 4.70 |
| Half Hourly detail for Florida vs. LSU | ||||
| 8:00 | CBS | College Football: Florida vs. LSU | 2.7/9 | 8.35 |
| 8:30 | CBS | College Football: Florida vs. LSU | 3.2/11 | 8.88 |
| 9:00 | CBS | College Football: Florida vs. LSU | 3.5/11 | 10.79 |
| 9:30 | CBS | College Football: Florida vs. LSU | 2.9/9 | 8.95 |
| 10:00 | CBS | College Football: Florida vs. LSU | 3.8/12 | 10.92 |
| 10:30 | CBS | College Football: Florida vs. LSU | 4.0/13 | 11.46 |
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.
Saturday bested Friday by 27% in both viewers and the demo.
(on the big four)
Seemed like LSU couldn’t even get a first down. As soon as they were down 10, it was over.
Over 11 million on a Saturday at 10:30? Those are great numbers. The game wasn’t great, but Florida got the win, so I was happy.
Looks like losts of folks may have done what I did:
Watch Texas on ESPN, then switch it to Florida at the half (hence the jump at 9), then back to ESPN for the rest of Texas-Colorado, then back to Florida-LSU. I need to learn to use my PiP.
Who says there’s nothing to watch on Saturdays??
Lester, that definitely makes sense, but unfortunately I don’t have the half hour data for ABC to corroborate.
Just a thought! I figure you’ve got #2 Texas on ESPN and #1Florida & #4LSU on CBS, interest would be higher than average. Too bad both games were messy- but sure better than Trauma!!
SEC,SEC,SEC
cops beat the big ten game lol
Let’s Go Hawks!! Even if they did not win in the Nielsen ratings. I blame Michigan for that.
Tigers need a freaking QB!
13-3, wow..what a bore. at least the big ten game was good.
so how long till Trauma is cancelled? i give it till the end of the month max most likely gone next week tho
After seeing how Tennessee whipped Georgia… after LSU barely beat Georgia the previous week AND needed a celebration penalty to do it? I was surprised Florida didn’t beat LSU by a greater margin. Classic SEC Defensive struggle. Hope CBS took note of the potential for Saturday Night SEC Football! FLorida and Bama in the SEC title game deserves primetime. Go SEC!!!
yea SEC title game should be primetime
GO HAWKS
Those are huge numbers
Maybe 9:30 was halftime or something?
SNL Numbers?
max, we should get SNL numbers on Monday morning if recent history is any indication.