Saturday Final Nationals: Oklahoma-Ohio State is ABC’s Most-Viewed September Non-Opening Week College Football Game in Six Years

Saturday night again belonged to ABC with its “Saturday Night Football” presentation of the Oklahoma Sooners at the Ohio State Buckeyes. ABC won the night among households, viewers and all key male and adult demos.

Including streaming viewership, Oklahoma at Ohio State (8 p.m.) delivered a total live audience of 8.255 million viewers, the network’s most-viewed non-opening week September game since 2011. Through the first two weeks of the season, ABC’s Saturday Night Football is up 49 percent from the first two games of last season.

ABC and ESPN aired four of the five most-watched games across all networks for Week 2: 3rd Pittsburgh at Penn State (3:30 p.m. on ABC: 3.74 million viewers), 4th Cincinnati at Michigan (noon on ABC, 3.69 million viewers) and 5th Auburn at Clemson (7 p.m. on ESPN, 3.5 million viewers).

Also, both ESPN and ABC, individually, generated an increase in total live audience across its slate of week 2 games compared to last season’s second week.

(Source: ESPN)

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* AFF = Number of affiliates (stations) airing the program
* CVG = percent of coverage in U.S.
	Saturday, September 9, 2017
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			4.9/10	8504	2.1/12	2.7/11	3.0/10
7:36	Saturday Night Football Oklahoma @ Ohio State (thru 11:29)	259	90	4.6/9	8081	2.0/12	2.5/11	2.8/10
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.8/4	2744	0.3/1	0.4/2	0.6/2
8:00	Crimetime Saturday NCIS: New Orleans (r)	251	88	1.6/3	2478	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/2
9:00	48 Hours (r)	250	88	1.8/4	2806	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.6/2
10:00	48 Hours (r)	250	88	2.0/4	2948	0.3/2	0.5/2	0.7/2
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			2.3/5	3944	0.7/4	1.1/5	1.4/5
7:30	College Football Georgia @ Notre Dame (thru 11:24)	243	91	2.4/5	4088	0.8/4	1.1/5	1.4/5
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.2/2	1938	0.4/2	0.5/2	0.6/2
4:36	College Football Nebraska @ Oregon	252	90	1.5/3	2587	0.5/4	0.7/4	0.9/4
8:11	College Football Post-Gun			1.0/2	1826	0.4/3	0.6/3	0.6/2
8:17	College Football Extra	253	90	0.8/2	1355	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.5/2
8:37	College Football Pre-Kick			0.8/2	1351	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.5/2
8:40	College Football Stanford @ USC (thru 11:53)	252	90	1.2/2	2069	0.5/3	0.6/2	0.7/2
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.6/1	1186		0.5/2
7:00	Crónicas de Sábado			0.6/1	1041		0.3/1
8:00	Fútbol Liga MX CF Pachuca vs. CD Guadalajara			0.7/1	1171		0.4/2
10:04	Fútbol Liga MX Club America vs. CD Tiburones (thru 11:59 p.m.)			0.6/1	1218		0.5/2
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.3/1	509		0.2/1
6:00	Cine XXX: State of the Union (2005)			0.2/0	302		0.1/1
8:00	Cine Ni Sangre, ni Arena (1941)			0.3/1	494		0.1/1
10:00	Cine Alien vs. Predator (2004) (thru 12:00 a.m.)			0.3/1	553		0.2/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average (preliminary)			0.6/1	1037	0.3/2	0.3/1	0.4/1
8:00	Cine Red (2008) (preliminary)			0.6/1	1032	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.3/1
9:00	Cine Sabotage (2014) (preliminary)			0.5/1	1027	0.3/2	0.4/2
10:00	Cine Sabotage (2014) (preliminary)			0.6/1	1053	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.4/1

Note 1: All of this date’s Telemundo data are based on preliminary figures.

Note 2: Majority of the Miami local stations, including Univision and Telemundo pre-empted their Saturday night network programming to air continued coverage of Hurricane Irma.

Sub-Demo Breakdowns – Saturday 9/09/17

Live+3 Days Ratings – Saturday 9/09/17

For the entire week of September 4-10, 2017 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is down 0.4 percent in viewership (0.803 million vs. 0.806 million) and down 4 percent among Adults 18-49 (484,000 vs. 502,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down 14 percent in viewership (0.803 million vs. 0.929 million) and down 13 percent among Adults 18-49 (484,000 vs. 555,000) from the same week one year ago (September 5-11, 2016). (https://programmingins.wpengine.com/?p=19277)

	PROGRAM	HH	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
8:00	Dragon Ball Super (r)	0.30	451	0.16	207
8:30	Dragon Ball Super	0.45	674	0.30	386
9:00	Rick & Morty (r)	0.41	611	0.25	324
9:30	Rick & Morty (r)	0.52	765	0.31	394
10:00	Family Guy (r)	0.68	1041	0.45	583
10:30	Family Guy (r)	0.81	1275	0.54	703

TOONAMI – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
11:00	Dragon Ball Super (r)	913	0.42	539
11:30	Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters	849	0.39	501
12:00a	Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders	655	0.30	393
12:30a	Tokyo Ghoul	567	0.26	330
1:00a	Hunter X Hunter	553	0.26	336
1:30a	Lupin the 3rd: Part 4	514	0.23	295
2:00a	Naruto: Shippuden	531	0.24	311
2:30a	Outlaw Star	417	0.19	246
3:00a	Cowboy Bebop (r)	374	0.17	215
3:30a	Attack on Titan (r)	362	0.15	193

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
4:00a	Rick & Morty (r)	387	0.19	241
4:30a	Rick & Morty (r)	418	0.19	248
5:00a	King of the Hill (r)	464	0.23	295
5:30a	King of the Hill (r)	456	0.22	286

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research

Cable Rankings – Saturday 9/09/17
What follows are the top 100 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Saturday, September 9:

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research