Saturday Final Nationals: Double-Digit Growth for College Football Playoff Semifinal Doubleheader on ESPN

ESPN dominated New Year’s Eve prime time with the nightcap College Football Playoff Semifinal, Fiesta Bowl: Ohio State vs. Clemson (19.24 million on ESPN and ESPN2 combined) which was up 3 percent in TV-only viewers from the year-ago prime time Semifinal of the Cotton Bowl.

The late afternoon Semifinal Peach Bowl: Alabama vs. Washington (19.34 million on ESPN and ESPN2 combined) rose 23 percent from the year-ago late afternoon Semifinal of the Orange Bowl.

For streaming figures, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl between Washington and Alabama (December 31 at 3 p.m.) delivered an additional average minute audience of 470,000 viewers with 1,378,000 unique viewers watching a total of 96,860,000 minutes — up 57%, 16% and 40%, respectively, in average minute audience, unique viewers and total minutes watched from last year’s Tigers-Sooners game.

The College Football Playoff Semifinal at the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl between Ohio State and Clemson (December 31 at 7 p.m.) delivered an additional average minute audience of 410,000 viewers with 1,174,000 unique viewers watching a total of 86,075,000 minutes — up 29%, 12%, and 32% respectively, in average minute audience, unique viewers and total minutes watched — from last year’s Spartans-Crimson Tide game.

(Source: ESPN [1], [2])

ABC’s first late-night segment of ‭“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” (11:30 p.m. -12:33 a.m.)‬ delivered an average audience of 20.3 million total viewers and scored a 6.5 rating, 25 share among Adults 18-49 ‭(8.4 million) — by each data point, the program ranked as ABC’s top entertainment‬ telecast since the “Academy Awards”‭ from Feb. 28, 2016.‬

‭ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve – Part 1” dominated the combined audiences of‬ NBC’s “New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly – Late Night” and Fox’s “Pitbull’s New Year’s Revolution”‭ ‬by 53 percent in Total Viewers‭ (20.3 million vs. 13.3 million – NBC and Fox combined)‬
and 44 percent in Adults 18-49‭ (6.5/25 million vs. 4.5/17).‬

Despite its late time period,‭ the second late-night segment of ‬“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest”‭ (1:09-2:07 a.m.) set a new high‬ of 7.2 million Total Viewers and delivered a 2.5 rating, 15 share in Adults 18-49 ‭(3.3 million).‬

‭Growing year to year in viewers (+6 percent – 7.2 million vs. 6.8 million) and young adults (+4 percent-‬ 2.5/15 vs. 2.4/13), ‭the final segment of “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” drew its largest audience‬ ‭to-date – ABC began airing Part 2 in 2000.‬

‭(Source: ABC)‬

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* AFF = Number of affiliates (stations) airing the program
* CVG = percent of coverage in U.S.
	Saturday, December 31, 2016
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			4.0/8	8257	1.9/10	2.4/10	2.9/9
8:00	Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest (s)	249	94	3.3/7	6608	1.5/7	1.9/7	2.2/7
10:00	Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest (s)	249	94	5.2/11	11556	2.8/14	3.6/14	4.1/14
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			2.0/4	3107	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.5/2
8:00	Crimetime Saturday Hawaii Five-0 (rs)	255	93	1.8/4	2864	0.3/2	0.4/2	0.5/2
9:00	48 Hours (rs)	255	94	1.9/4	2898	0.3/1	0.4/1	0.5/2
10:00	48 Hours (rs)	255	94	2.3/5	3560	0.3/1	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			2.0/4	3558	0.6/3	0.9/3	1.0/3
8:00	A Toast to 2016! (s)	247	94	2.1/4	3725	0.6/3	0.9/3	1.1/4
10:00	Seth Meyers New Year’s Eve (s)	247	94	1.8/4	3224	0.6/3	0.8/3	1.0/3
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.9/2	1392	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/1
8:00	Bones (rs)	253	94	0.9/2	1297	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/1
9:00	Lethal Weapon (rs)	253	94	1.0/2	1487	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.8/2	1578		0.5/2
7:00	¡Feliz 2017! (s) (thru 12:30 a.m.)			0.8/2	1747		0.6/2
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.3/1	574		0.2/1
6:00	Cine Su Excelencia (1967)			0.3/1	586		0.2/1
9:00	Cine Un Buen Hombre (2014)			0.2/1	520		0.2/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average (preliminary)			0.3/1	641	0.2/1	0.3/1
8:00	Cine Transformers: Dark of the (2011) (preliminary)			0.4/1	714	0.3/1	0.3/1
9:00	Cine Transformers: Dark of the (2011) (preliminary)			0.3/1	716	0.3/1	0.3/1
10:00	Bienvenido 2017 (s) (preliminary, thru 11:00)			0.2/0	494	0.2/1	0.2/1

Note: Univision’s 18-34 ratings and all of this date’s Telemundo data are based on preliminary figures.

Sub-Demo Breakdowns – Saturday 12/31/16

For the entire week of December 26, 2016-January 1, 2017 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is down -2 percent in viewership (0.894 million vs. 0.915 million) and down -3 percent among Adults 18-49 (538,000 vs. 555,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down -10 percent in total viewership (0.894 million vs. 0.998 million) and down -4 percent among Adults 18-49 (538,000 vs. 561,000) from the same week one year ago (December 28, 2015-January 3, 2016). (https://programmingins.wpengine.com/?p=13924)

	PROGRAM	HH	Viewers (000)	A18-49 rating
8:00	King of the Hill (r)	0.34	645	0.26
8:30	King of the Hill (r)	0.30	504	0.20
9:00	The Cleveland Show (r)	0.37	630	0.27
9:30	American Dad (r)	0.45	769	0.34
10:00	Bob’s Burgers (r)	0.46	804	0.34
10:30	Bob’s Burgers (r)	0.53	874	0.41
11:00	Family Guy (r)		1036	0.52
11:30	Family Guy (r)		1124	0.48

TOONAMI – SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2016

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
12:00a	Shelter: The Animation	744	0.30	387
12:05a	Dragon Ball Z Kai (r)	666	0.28	361
12:30a	Dragon Ball Z Kai (r)	686	0.31	396
1:00a	Dragon Ball Z Kai (r)	658	0.30	386
1:30a	Dragon Ball Z Kai (r)	629	0.28	358
2:00a	Dragon Ball Z Kai (r)	591	0.27	348
2:30a	Dragon Ball Z Kai (r)	494	0.23	291
3:00a	Dragon Ball Z Kai (r)	482	0.23	294

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating
3:30a	American Dad (r)	490	0.22
4:00a	Bob’s Burgers (r)	533	0.25
4:30a	Bob’s Burgers (r)	530	0.25
5:00a	King of the Hill (r)	570	0.27
5:30a	King of the Hill (r)	587	0.28

Cable Rankings – Saturday 12/31/16

What follows are the top 200 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Saturday, December 31:

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research