‘SNL Equals Highest Week Two Rating in Eight Years

Based on the metered market (overnight) households, the October 8th edition of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” hosted by Lin-Manuel Miranda and featuring Alec Baldwin in his second appearance as Donald Trump, was above average at a 5.2 rating/13 share. Comparably, this was the veteran late night sketch comedy’s highest week two overnight rating for the season since 2008. Additionally, “SNL” scored a 2.4 rating/12 share in adults 18-49 in the markets with local people meters. Note: These results exclude the Charlotte, Orlando, Jacksonville, Norfolk, Raleigh-Durham and West Palm Beach.

Saturday’s telecast was up by 24 percent from the show’s October 2015 average for original telecasts in metered-market households (5.2 vs. 4.2) and 20 percent in adults 18-49 in the local people meters (2.4 vs. 2.0).

Last week’s season premiere, hosted by Margot Robbie, increased by 3.491 million viewers overall going from “live plus same day” to “live plus three day” official-national Nielsens (8.297 million to 11.788 million), and by 56 percent in national adult 18-49 rating (2.34 to 3.64).

Source: Nielsen Media Research