Comments on: TV Ratings: Cops, America's Most Wanted, Oregon vs. Arizona win with adults 18-49

By: Larryville Slim

Larryville Slim — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:09:08 +0000

I agree with “Football Fan” about the prominence of Oregon and the importance of the Arizona game. I finally saw the game last night on ESPN2′s “Instant Classics” rebroadcast. A fantastic game, and what a finish! I live in Georgia, where ABC broadcast the Texas Football Massacre of Kansas Saturday night. I wish ABC would offer the best game, with the most exciting teams (Oregon is a blast to watch), instead of giving in to assumptions based on geography. The football South is SEC country (with the ACC a very distant second, and that thanks solely to Georgia Tech), and Texas holds no special appeal here, relative proximity notwithstanding. At the very least, the network should be able to leave a game that’s a rout and switch to one that’s competitive and exciting.

By: aznfratboy

aznfratboy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:03:19 +0000

What I was tlaking about BIll was, doesn’t it air Saturday night anymore?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:25:31 +0000

Football Fan you’re indeed correct, had Arizona won, and won out (I don’t think USC is a gimme, but we’ll see) they would have been in position to win the conference.

Rankings/who is the better team don’t necessarily correlate with the ratings. Being ranked in the top 20 all season and crushing USC doesn’t change Oregon’s ratings fates much. Oregon isn’t going to draw the more casual viewers like some programs can.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:21:36 +0000

We typically get SNL numbers on Monday morning.

By: aznfratboy

aznfratboy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:04:54 +0000

No surprise that football won. What ever happened to Saturday Night Live on NBC?

By: a p garcia

a p garcia — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:44:03 +0000

No wonder they put the healcare bill on Saturaday night. Most people are watching football. This was no accident. They could have chosen SNF.

By: Ren

Ren — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:38:22 +0000

Yawn, watched a movie haha

By: FootballFan

FootballFan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:26:37 +0000

Nothing more than pride on the line for Arizona? Do you even watch college football? If the Wildcats won that game they would be the leading contender to clinch the Pac-10 title and play in the Rose Bowl. And oh ya…Arizona has never played in a Rose Bowl. So that was kind of a big deal to them. And as far as Oregon not being a high profile team…they’re ranked #11 in the country…have been featured on ESPN’s College Gameday twice this season, and they have been one of the best programs in the country in recent years. They might not be high profile in terms of history and tradition, but the Ducks are certainly one of the most recognizable programs around these days.

By: mattttttttttttttttttt

mattttttttttttttttttt — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:03:38 +0000

Arizona FTW?!

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:34:15 +0000

Jason, that’s nothing I could quantify. I really doubt perceptions from viewers about consistency this year played as much of a role as the match-up of a two loss team playing a 3 loss team with nothing other than pride on the line for Arizona.

When Missouri played Kansas two years ago Missouri was 10-1 going into that game and Kansas was 11-0 and the Big 12 North was on the line as well as BCS Championship game bid hopes for both Kansas and Mizzou. Different stakes…

By: daniel patrick

daniel patrick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:29:49 +0000

watched until about the third quarter of the game and figured we won and went to do something else, then came back and watched the last couple minutes of the game, got mad, and cant remember anything else until snl started

By: Jason Clinkscales

Jason Clinkscales — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:23:45 +0000

Robert, I certainly agree with these not being high-profile teams, but you think the lack of consistent excitement in the college football season had an affect on those numbers as well? I imagine that Missouri and Kansas had strong viewership two years ago after coming out of nowhere.

By: Larryville Slim

Larryville Slim — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:19:37 +0000

Here in metro Atlanta, I was one of the sorry third of the country who didn’t get to see the exciting Oregon game (which I was looking forward to), but instead got Texas-Kansas. What were they thinking?
:^(

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:11:29 +0000

Alan, there are no overnight cable reports, and no daily cable reports for the weekend (at least none we have access to).

You can see the weekly top 25 cable shows by clicking “Cable Top 25″ in our top navigation. We post other information as well, if you’re looking for a particular show your best bet is just to use the search feature.

By: Mark D.

Mark D. — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:00:40 +0000

Went to see New Moon and caught up on my recordings.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:53:38 +0000

So is Saturday Repeats enough to justify the renewal of LAw & Order? Plus, Where do I find cable ratings?

By: Cody

Cody — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:41:06 +0000

Why don’t they put SNL in primetime they could do well in the ratings

By: R.G

R.G — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:06:20 +0000

I guess you made your point.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:00:49 +0000

R.G. way, way more people watched TV. WAY more people. But I haven’t seen the % of people watching TV numbers for this Saturday vs. Friday yet (tomorrow), but that movie was out on Friday night too.

Anyway, the point is this: your statement that more people are home Friday night than Saturday night isn’t true

By: R.G

R.G — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:58:45 +0000

But isn’t there a popular movie out in theaters everyone saw instead of watched TV?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:56:51 +0000

R.G., at least with adults 18-49, the numbers often tell a different story. Last Saturday (November 14) on average in primetime 32.0% of adults 18-49 were watching TV between 8pm-11p. On Friday the 13th that average was 30.8% So MORE people were watching TV on Saturday, just not the major broadcast networks.

By: Lester's Fan

Lester's Fan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:55:53 +0000

I stayed in to watch Colt McCoy break an NCAAF record!!

By: R.G

R.G — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:50:50 +0000

Less people are at home on a Saturday night than a Friday night. This is no surprise.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:17:52 +0000

The Oregon vs. Arizona game offered all the drama any sports fan could hope for. But it wasn’t two high profile teams (even though Oregon is ranked) so the ratings weren’t going to be great.

I too caught up on the last couple episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm last night, and watched a couple of the episodes of “Universe” in HD off of History On Demand.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:03:26 +0000

Caught up I mean

By: mark-allen

mark-allen — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:03:14 +0000

wow…i went out last night…dosen’t look like i missed a thing.

By: Theoacme

Theoacme — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:02:08 +0000

Chris – whacked a mole, or watched a movie?

Either way, you probably did better than most people did…

…as for me, my wife preempted the first time that particular L&O was shown (drat that Supernanny!), so I did okay…

…or so I thought, until you said whack-a-mole

By: Vinny

Vinny — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:00:47 +0000

Ditto chris went to the
Movies to c couple retreat last night then catches up on survivor biggest loser and curb ur enthusiasm

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:36:06 +0000

yawn of a night stayed in and whaced a movie