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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.4/4 | 1.3/4 | 1.0/3 | 0.7/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 4.41 | 3.79 | 5.10 | 3.48 |
Note: coverage of live events like last night’s College Football telecasts on ABC makes those numbers approximate and subject to greater than normal adjustment. See definitions below for more information on these Fast Affiliate ratings.
With a rain out of the Yankees/Angels ALCS Game 6, it was ABC’s College Football (Texas v. Missouri, USC v. Oregon St.) topping the night on Saturday with an average 1.4 rating for adults 18-49 followed by 4 episodes of Fox’s Cops with an overall 1.3 rating.
Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00 | ABC | College Football, Texas v. Missouri, Oregon St. v. USC | 1.4 | 4 | 4.41 |
| FOX | Cops x2 | 1.3 | 4 | 3.92 | |
| CBS | Three Rivers (repeat) | 0.7 | 2 | 3.76 | |
| NBC | Mercy (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 2.49 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | Cops x2 | 1.2 | 4 | 3.66 |
| CBS | 48 Hours Mystery (repeat) | 1.0 | 3 | 5.04 | |
| NBC | Trauma (repeat) | 0.6 | 2 | 3.30 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 1.5 | 5 | 6.49 |
| NBC | Law & Order SVU (repeat) | 1.1 | 3 | 4.65 |
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Here’s the half hour breakdown for ABC’s College Football courtesy of Marc Berman.
8:00 p.m. – Viewers: 5.89 million (#1), A18-49: 1.7/ 6 (#1)
8:30 p.m. – Viewers: 5.37 million (#1), A18-49: 1.6/ 5 (#1)
9:00 p.m. – Viewers: 4.53 million (#2), A18-49: 1.4/ 5 (#1)
9:30 p.m. – Viewers: 3.35 million (#4), A18-49: 1.1/ 3 (#2t)
10:00 p.m. – Viewers: 3.59 million (#3), A18-49: 1.1/ 4 (#2)
10:30 p.m. – Viewers: 3.77 million (#3), A18-49: 1.3/ 4 (#2)
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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.
Marc Berman said CSI: NY aired, but I saw Three Rivers on last night.
The1337, my bet would have been Berman error. If you saw Three Rivers, so did everyone else. I will edit.
I saw Three Rivers being on too.
Yeah, it was Three Rivers. I would have been happier with a CSI:NY repeat however.
Maybe it was CSI: 3 Rivers.
Texas & USC will do another split-national this weekend. I think they tend to be the “default” teams for ABC/ESPN when there isn’t an obvious matchup to televise, and of course CBS has the SEC contract.
Also, based on that half hour breakdown ABC (if they could contractually) should have switched away from the Texas game a lot earlier than they did.
CSI: NY originally was scheduled but CBS announced last week that it was airing the Three Rivers from last Sunday last night instead.
three rivers is two and a half rivers too many….
Bill,
FOX aired two episodes of COPS instead of America’s Most Wanted. The MLB game was supposed to air, and when it got postponed, there was no new AMW ready to show, so COPS aired.
I watched Three Rivers on Saturday and thought that it was interesting and I do not know why you are dissing this show. The storyline was compling and the actors did a good job. It made me consider signing my transplant form to help others have a new life.
In Cleveland Texas/Missouri was airing but sometime in the 3rd quarter of Oregon St/USC it was switched and that game was pretty close from 11-11:40 eastern. Is there a way to find out those numbers?
Matthew, even in the final ratings (as opposed to these fast overnight ratings), the numbers for different games aren’t separated in the data we see. ABC may very well get that data, but not us.
Ron, thanks. Post edited.
I love Three Rivers, a new medical drama that is so inspiring and educational about organ transplantation. Three Rivers is being told by very talented and charismatic young actors through their compassionate, caring, sensitive and highly skilled surgeons, the organ donors and their family members and the recipients. This is the best new medical show on right now. We all can learn from the fantastic, intense and exciting story lines.
Carol, is that you?
LOL! Robert!
Hey, does anybody know where the rest of the episodes of Sit Down, Shut Up are aired? It says on episodeguides that it airs on Saturday, and that there are 3 episodes left. Has it moved from Fox or is it just out of the primetime?
SDSU is airing at midnight Saturday night/Sunday morning, but we never see any ratings for them.
I will go out on a wild limb and say that one of the TV networks in the future will negotiate with the NFL to have a Saturday NFL Kickoff Game in the near future. The ratings are too good for both Sunday and Monday night football, and to boost the audience on Saturday nights, one of the networks will look into this venture with the NFL. I am surprised that ABC doesn’t air NBA basketball on Saturday nights after football is done. Sports on Saturdays is the way to go.
NCIS: THREE RIVERS.
I saw the 1st min or two, thought it was CSI.
Man this show tries to hard to be like HOUSE, CSI.
You need to be your own show.
Too bad too i like Carol Barbee and the stuff she has done previously, but this show is one of the worst shows i’ve seen.
The NFL and NCAA seem to have an unspoken agreement not to step on each other’s toes. Saturday is college day. Sunday and Monday are for the pros.
FOX should air Til Death on the Sit Down, Shut Up slot after it finishes its run, just a thought
It would be interesting to see NFL on Saturday, it would help boost this night.
Dingo, there’s a law against it.