Saturday Final Nationals: ABC and Fox Garner Positives with College Football

ABC won its third consecutive Saturday evening among households, viewers and all key male and adult demos with “Saturday Night Football” that featured the defending national champion Clemson Tigers versus the Louisville Cardinals. Clemson’s 47-21 victory over Louisville delivered a total live audience of 5.206 million viewers, college football’s most-watched prime-time game in week 3 and was up 79 percent from last season’s week 3 prime time game of USC vs. Stanford.

USC Trojans’ double-overtime 27-24 win over the Texas Longhorns is Fox’s most-watched college football game of the year. The contest drew 4.912 million viewers on Fox and set a new Fox Sports GO’s regular-season college football record with an average minute audience of 41,310, a +13 percent increase over the previous mark of 36,718 set in 2016 for Texas-Oklahoma.

(Source: ESPN, Fox Sports)

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* AFF = Number of affiliates (stations) airing the program
* CVG = percent of coverage in U.S.
	Saturday, September 16, 2017
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			3.2/7	5413	1.3/8	1.7/8	2.0/8
8:00	Saturday Night Pre-Game			1.9/4	3066	0.7/4	0.8/4	0.9/4
8:07	Saturday Night Football Clemson @ Louisville (thru 11:51)	260	92	3.0/6	5064	1.2/7	1.6/7	1.9/7
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			2.2/4	3245	0.2/1	0.4/2	0.6/2
8:00	Crimetime Saturday NCIS (r)	256	92	1.9/4	2849	0.2/2	0.4/2	0.6/2
9:00	Crimetime Saturday NCIS: Los Angeles (r)	255	92	2.0/4	3068	0.2/1	0.4/2	0.6/2
10:00	48 Hours (r)	255	92	2.6/5	3819	0.2/1	0.5/2	0.8/3
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			2.2/5	3242	0.3/2	0.5/2	0.7/3
8:00	Dateline Mystery	246	92	2.6/5	3807	0.3/2	0.5/2	0.8/3
10:00	Running Wild with Bear Grylls (rs)	245	92	1.5/3	2112	0.2/1	0.5/2	0.6/2
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.9/4	3644	0.8/5	0.9/5	1.1/5
7:53	College Football Extra	255	92	1.3/3	2204	0.5/4	0.6/3	0.7/3
8:37	College Football Pre-Kick			1.6/3	2742	0.7/4	0.8/4	0.9/4
8:41	College Football Texas @ USC (thru 12:44 a.m.)	254	92	2.9/6	4912	1.2/8	1.5/7	1.8/7
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.4/1	594		0.2/1
7:00	Crónicas de Sábado			0.4/1	790		0.2/1
8:00	Fútbol Liga MX Club Leon vs. CF Pachuca			0.3/1	575		0.2/1
10:04	Fútbol Liga MX CD Guadalajara vs. Universidad (thru 12:09 a.m.)			0.4/1	686		0.3/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.4/1	710		0.2/1
7:00	Cine El Barrendero			0.3/1	593		0.2/1
9:00	Cine The Transporter (2002) (thru 12:00 a.m.)			0.4/1	704		0.3/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average (preliminary)			0.4/1	679	0.2/1	0.2/1
8:00	Cine Madagascar (2005) (preliminary)			0.4/1	678	0.2/1	0.2/1
8:30	Cine Shooter (2007) (preliminary)			0.4/1	577	0.1/1	0.2/1
9:00	Cine Shooter (2007) (preliminary)			0.4/1	684	0.2/1	0.2/1
10:00	Cine Shooter (2007) (preliminary)			0.4/1	725	0.2/1	0.3/1

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

Sub-Demo Breakdowns – Saturday 9/16/17

Live+3 Days Ratings – Saturday 9/16/17

For the entire week of September 11-17, 2017 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is up 5 percent in viewership (0.842 million vs. 0.803 million) and up 12 percent among Adults 18-49 (540,000 vs. 484,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down 9 percent in viewership (0.842 million vs. 0.928 million) and up 0.4 percent among Adults 18-49 (540,000 vs. 538,000) from the same week one year ago (September 12-18, 2016). (https://programmingins.wpengine.com/?p=19375)

	PROGRAM	HH	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
8:00	Dragon Ball Super (r)	0.35	515	0.22	286
8:30	Dragon Ball Super	0.54	786	0.36	469
9:00	Rick & Morty (r)	0.51	847	0.43	558
9:30	Rick & Morty (r)	0.58	977	0.49	637
10:00	Family Guy (r)	0.67	1001	0.50	641
10:30	Family Guy (r)	0.72	1082	0.55	704

TOONAMI – SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
11:00	Dragon Ball Super (r)	850	0.39	509
11:30	Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters	775	0.36	462
12:00a	Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders	618	0.31	394
12:30a	Tokyo Ghoul	677	0.33	431
1:00a	Hunter X Hunter	589	0.27	346
1:30a	Lupin the 3rd: Part 4	489	0.21	273
2:00a	Naruto: Shippuden	494	0.21	272
2:30a	Outlaw Star	398	0.17	221
3:00a	Cowboy Bebop (r)	314	0.17	222
3:30a	Attack on Titan (r)	316	0.17	219

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
4:00a	Rick & Morty (r)	368	0.16	212
4:30a	Rick & Morty (r)	414	0.19	245
5:00a	King of the Hill (r)	452	0.20	262
5:30a	King of the Hill (r)	436	0.20	258

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research

Cable Rankings – Saturday 9/16/17
What follows are the top 100 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Saturday, September 16:

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research