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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 1.6/5 | 1.4/5 | 1.0/3 | 0.9/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 4.9/7 | 5.41 | 5.80 | 3.97 |
Note: coverage of live events like last night’s sports (College Football (ABC), makes their numbers approximate and subject to greater than normal adjustment. See definitions below for more information on these Fast Affiliate ratings.
Most of the country (~83%) got Notre Dame losing to #8 Pittsburgh, while the remainder saw Texas Tech losing to Oklahoma State. In the preliminary, non-time zone adjusted numbers, the college game combo lost out to the battle-worn tandem of Cops and America’s Most Wanted on FOX, though the college game led the 10pm hour with both viewers and adults 18-49. NBC was all reruns, and CBS ran its typical Saturday lineup of reruns plus 48 Hours Mystery.
Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millions) |
| 8:00 | FOX | Cops (original & repeat) | 1.6/5 | 5.09 |
| ABC | Saturday Night Football | 1.4/4 | 5.43 | |
| CBS | NCIS (R) | 1.1/3 | 6.42 | |
| NBC | Mercy (R) | 0.5/2 | 2.39 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | America’s Most Wanted | 1.5/5 | 4.84 |
| ABC | Saturday Night Football | 1.4/4 | 5.32 | |
| CBS | CSI: NY (R) | 0.9/3 | 5.53 | |
| NBC | Law & Order (R) | 0.9/3 | 4.16 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | Saturday Night Football | 1.6/5 | 5.50 |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU (R) | 1.2/4 | 5.36 | |
| CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 1.1/3 | 5.44 |
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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.
Law and Order repeat ties a CSI repeat!
SVU repeat beats a 48 Hours Mystery – yeah, it’s cheaper, but you would think CBS needs a wee bit more at 10…
…and I’ll play a bit of retentionista today – AMW lost a bit of its repeat Cops lead in, about 250,000 total audience and a tenth point on the demo, and John Walsh had a good episode too…so FOX should repeat Dollhouse instead!
…roflmao!!!
Charlie the Tuna was really miffed, and from what I saw (non-HDTV for me), he had every right to be – did anyone happen to see the “fumble” on HDTV?
Wow, a 0.5 for Mercy, that’s horrible. Even being a repeat, I think having the color bars and associated tone would draw more viewers than that show.
Notre Dame is losing its luster. I blamed the bad NBC ratings last month on pathetic Washington State and the as-expected blowout. Pittsburgh is a top-ten team and the margin was five points.
For the record, the Texas Tech-Oklahoma State final was 24-17.
How did the Pacquaio vs. Cotto boxing match do in ratings?
I guess NBC’s dateline is doing better on Fridays then on saturdays, and its cheaper. FOX should consider moving Cops and AMW to fridays, but before people comment, they will never do that. And I know both series do well for Saturdays but FOX needs series to compete for fridays.
I’ve gotta tell ya, I’ve never seen (active, real not faked-to-make-you-download) numbers on an episode of anything like I have the recent episode of Dexter (aired Sunday).
Right now, Monday afternoon, there are 24,306 seeders, and 53,351 peers. That’s around 75,000 people taking the time to download this episode, that I can see. This doesn’t count the seeds/leechers that have left, or peers yet to appear. (Those are stored with the torrent file, at the main host.
But wow!