Note: Any prior rating results are based on the final nationals. Also, since the level of DVR penetration has increased from 9 percent in early 2006-07 to approximately 20 percent at present, the overall results may be negatively impacted.
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-Saturday’s Winners: Nothing
-Saturday’s Losers: The night overall, as usual
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-Ratings Breakdown: Fox finished first on Saturday as a result of game two of the American League Championship Baseball series, with 8.83 million viewers and a 2.8 rating/9 share among adults 18-49 in prime-time. Comparably, this was an improvement of the year-ago game three match-up between the New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinal (Viewers: 7.51 million; A18-49: 2.2/ 7 on Oct. 14, 2006). As a reminder, results for any live sporting event are always approximate.
The other sporting event on Saturday was the NASCAR Nextel Cup Racing Series on ABC, which ranked third overall in total viewers (6.14 million) and second among adults 18-49 (1.9/ 6) from 8-11 p.m. CBS finished just the opposite, second in total viewers and third among adults 18-49, with its line-up of a repeat of Cold Case (Viewers: #2, 6.70 million; A18-49: #3, 1.8/ 7), a repeat of CSI: Miami (Viewers: #3, 6.11 million; A18-49: #3, 1.6/ 5), and 48 Hours Investigates (Viewers: #3, 5.68 million; A18-49: #3, 1.5/ 5).
Last in every half-hour was NBC’s repeat combination of Life (Viewers: 2.66 million; A18-49: 0.6/ 2), Chuck (Viewers: 3.34 million; A18-49: 1.0/ 3), and Law & Order: SVU (Viewers: 4.71 million; A18-49: 1.3/ 5).
Source: Nielsen Media Research data
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Something will replace them. Those numbers are just embarrasing, even on Saturday.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: I think NBC is trying to pump a little liafe in to all the new seires, but its just isn't working. I expect L&O to be back very soon with encores.
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Originally posted by WelcomeToK-Ville: Wow, Saturday ratings are just terrible. Both Life and Chuck do not encore well at all.
Seeing how poorly Criminal Intent did its first Thursday on USA, I'd say they should get that back and on a decent night of the week here soon. It worked well after Heroes last spring.
I noticed that next Saturday at 9 pm NBC has skedded a L&O:CI episode, although the listing does not identify the episode name. I'm not sure if it's one of the USA re-purposed eps or one from previous NBC seasons.
Originally posted by mushu_jj: Seeing how poorly Criminal Intent did its first Thursday on USA, I'd say they should get that back and on a decent night of the week here soon. It worked well after Heroes last spring.
Well, I was wrong. NASCAR was beat pretty soundly by baseball in the demo. Clearly the chase has not, to this point, changed NASCAR’s fall fortunes. It's still too crowded a sports field for much of a bump from the new system. Baseball did better in the ratings, but still .... I remember the days when baseball would pull 20 million easy on any night for the LCS. Sure, part of that has to do with the dwindling fortunes of Network TV, but just compare the ALCS ratings for any of the games to a regularly schedule NFL game like last weeks Sunday or Monday night games and the difference is pretty stark.
viewers 18-49
abc 10.6 3.4
cbs 10.9 3.1
nbc 7.7 2.8
fox 8.0 2.9
Thanks vlis, ABC will win this week again. I have thought for two weeks that CBS would hold off NBC for second. This might be the week when I am finally right. CBS has what should be a monster game at 4:15 (Belicheat's Pats vs Cowboys)while I'd call the Sunday Night game on NBC (Saints vs Giants) average, even if it is a NY franchise.
It's interesting that FOX has pulled ahead in third place in both viewers and the demos. All of the critics predicted that FOX would fall in 4th place by a large margin. With baseball and all of the November sweeps stunts coming into play, FOX should hang on to third. I don't know if that speaks more to the strength of FOX's schedule or the fact that NBC has taken a huge fall.
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Originally posted by vlis: after 6 nites:
viewers 18-49
abc 10.6 3.4
cbs 10.9 3.1
nbc 7.7 2.8
fox 8.0 2.9
NASCAR is still very much a regional sport. I bet it did better in the demos in the South (probaby beating baseball). However, no matter how hard it tries, it hasn't caught on much with the Northern states, Mid-west, and West Coast.
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Originally posted by Hawk-eye: Well, I was wrong. NASCAR was beat pretty soundly by baseball in the demo. Clearly the chase has not, to this point, changed NASCAR’s fall fortunes. It's still too crowded a sports field for much of a bump from the new system. Baseball did better in the ratings, but still .... I remember the days when baseball would pull 20 million easy on any night for the LCS. Sure, part of that has to do with the dwindling fortunes of Network TV, but just compare the ALCS ratings for any of the games to a regularly schedule NFL game like last weeks Sunday or Monday night games and the difference is pretty stark.
Originally posted by WelcomeToK-Ville: It's interesting that FOX has pulled ahead in third place in both viewers and the demos. All of the critics predicted that FOX would fall in 4th place by a large margin. With baseball and all of the November sweeps stunts coming into play, FOX should hang on to third. I don't know if that speaks more to the strength of FOX's schedule or the fact that NBC has taken a huge fall.
I think a little of both. FOX still has problems (not a great pilot season, obviously) but if you think back to last year where by midseason the whole schedule was House and Bones while they waited for IDOL, I think FOX is actually doing better. IF you add in a slightly improved schedule, with the BCS games and the Super Bowl leading into AI season, I think FOX will have a very good season when all is said and done
Edited to add: the reduced post season baseball schedule has helped since they were not stuck with primetime division series games.
