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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 1.6/5 | 1.6/5 | 1.3/4 | 0.9/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 5.34 | 5.18 | 6.04 | 4.07 |
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 (~65%) got a double overtime game where #11 Oregon finally won out over Arizona. The other third of the country got Texas beating the crap out of Kansas. In the preliminary, non-time zone adjusted numbers, the college game combo tied the battle-worn tandem of Cops and America’s Most Wanted on FOX,with 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) | 1.7/6 | 5.16 |
| ABC | Saturday Night Football 8p-11p | 1.6/5 | 5.34 | |
| CBS | The Mentalist (R) | 1.1/4 | 5.26 | |
| NBC | Mercy (R) | 0.4/1 | 2.16 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | America’s Most Wanted | 1.6/5 | 5.20 |
| CBS | 48 Hours Mystery (R) | 1.2/4 | 5.60 | |
| NBC | Law & Order (R) | 0.9/3 | 4.27 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 1.7/6 | 7.26 |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU (R) | 1.5/5 | 5.78 | |
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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.
yawn of a night stayed in and whaced a movie
Ditto chris went to the
Movies to c couple retreat last night then catches up on survivor biggest loser and curb ur enthusiasm
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
wow…i went out last night…dosen’t look like i missed a thing.
Caught up I mean
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.
Less people are at home on a Saturday night than a Friday night. This is no surprise.
I stayed in to watch Colt McCoy break an NCAAF record!!
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.
But isn’t there a popular movie out in theaters everyone saw instead of watched TV?
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
I guess you made your point.
Why don’t they put SNL in primetime they could do well in the ratings
So is Saturday Repeats enough to justify the renewal of LAw & Order? Plus, Where do I find cable ratings?
Went to see New Moon and caught up on my recordings.
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.
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?
:^(
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.
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
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…
Arizona FTW?!
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.
Yawn, watched a movie haha
No wonder they put the healcare bill on Saturaday night. Most people are watching football. This was no accident. They could have chosen SNF.
No surprise that football won. What ever happened to Saturday Night Live on NBC?
We typically get SNL numbers on Monday morning.
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.
What I was tlaking about BIll was, doesn’t it air Saturday night anymore?
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.