For the sixth consecutive week of the college football season, “Saturday Night Football” has helped ABC win the night among households, viewers and all key male and adult demos (M18-34, M18-49, M25-54, P18-34, P18-49 and P25-54). “Saturday Night Football” has been the most-watched prime-time game each week of the 2017 college football season and the most-watched game of the week five of six weeks. On this night, ABC had aired Michigan State’s 14-10 upset win over Michigan. The television audience peaked at 8.858 million viewers as Michigan was driving for a potential game-winning touchdown (11 – 11:15 p.m.).
The Oct. 7 telecast of “Saturday Night Live”, hosted by Gal Gadot (“Wonder Woman”), musical guest Sam Smith and a special appearance by Jason Aldean, averaged 6.802 million viewers overall and a 1.76 rating in adults 18-49 – the show’s second-biggest Week 2 overall viewership in five years, trailing only the presidential election-fueled Oct. 8, 2016 (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Twenty One Pilots — 7.140 million viewers overall, 2.11 rating in adults 18-49), according to “fast official” “live plus same day” results from Nielsen Media Research.
(Sources: ESPN, NBC)
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For the entire week of October 2-8, 2017 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is up 4 percent in viewership (0.801 million vs. 0.771 million) and up 7 percent among Adults 18-49 (525,000 vs. 490,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down 13 percent in viewership (0.801 million vs. 0.916 million) and down 2 percent among Adults 18-49 (525,000 vs. 537,000) from the same week one year ago (October 3-9, 2016). (https://programmingins.wpengine.com/?p=19844)
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PROGRAM | HH | Viewers (000) |
A1849 rating |
A1849 (000) |
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| 8:00 | Dragon Ball Super (r) | 0.40 | 670 | 0.26 | 334 |
| 8:30 | Dragon Ball Super | 0.50 | 859 | 0.36 | 462 |
| 9:00 | Rick & Morty (r) | 0.43 | 755 | 0.33 | 426 |
| 9:30 | Rick & Morty (r) | 0.55 | 926 | 0.44 | 572 |
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| 10:00 | Family Guy (r) | 0.63 | 1070 | 0.52 | 674 |
| 10:30 | Family Guy (r) | 0.75 | 1198 | 0.61 | 781 |
TOONAMI – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2017
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PROGRAM | Viewers (000) |
A1849 rating |
A1849 (000) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Dragon Ball Super (r) | 875 | 0.46 | 587 |
| 11:30 | Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters | 800 | 0.41 | 526 |
| 12:00a | Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders | 638 | 0.33 | 429 |
| 12:30a | Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphana | 576 | 0.30 | 390 |
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| 1:00a | Hunter X Hunter | 590 | 0.31 | 406 |
| 1:30a | Lupin the 3rd: Part 4 | 513 | 0.27 | 350 |
| 2:00a | Naruto: Shippuden | 509 | 0.28 | 367 |
| 2:30a | Outlaw Star | 440 | 0.24 | 310 |
| 3:00a | Cowboy Bebop (r) | 423 | 0.22 | 290 |
| 3:30a | Attack on Titan (r) | 383 | 0.20 | 254 |
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PROGRAM | Viewers (000) |
A1849 rating |
A1849 (000) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00a | Rick & Morty (r) | 397 | 0.21 | 271 |
| 4:30a | Rick & Morty (r) | 478 | 0.25 | 316 |
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| 5:00a | King of the Hill (r) | 441 | 0.23 | 296 |
| 5:30a | King of the Hill (r) | 453 | 0.23 | 300 |
Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research
