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Saturday Final Nationals: Steelers-Bengals on CBS Draws Top AFC Wild Card Audience in Four Years

by Douglas Pucci January 12, 2016, 2:53 pm

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CBS was the dominant leader on Saturday night with “AFC Wild Card Playoff: Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati” (Women 18-34: 5.7/23; Men 18-34: 10.1/40; Women 18-49: 7.4/24; Men 18-49: 12.8/40). The game was up 12 percent from the year-ago Saturday prime time AFC Wild Card game (Baltimore-Pittsburgh, NBC, 27.9 million viewers on 1/03/15).

Steelers-Bengals was the most-watched AFC Wild Card game since Jan. 8, 2012 which also aired on CBS and also then featured the Pittsburgh Steelers as they lost to the Tim Tebow-led Denver Broncos in overtime (42.4 million).

Viewership peaked at 36.3 million at 11:30 p.m. thru to the game’s conclusion.

Earlier in the day, the Saturday afternoon NFL Wild Card game on ESPN and ABC – a Kansas City Chiefs’ 30-0 victory over the Houston Texans – averaged a 14.7 household rating and 25.171 million viewers, according to Nielsen fast nationals (19.114 million on ABC, 6.057 million on ESPN). The rating peaked among households from 5:30-6 p.m. ET with a 16.0 rating and among viewers from 6:30-7 p.m. with 27.841 million. Despite the one-sided nature of the game, Chiefs-Texans is the third most-watched Saturday afternoon NFL Wild Card game among total viewers in 17 years.

The combined rating on both ESPN and ABC represents increases of 15 percent in household rating and 13 percent in viewership, respectively, versus a year ago when the 2015 Cardinals-Panthers Wild Card game aired exclusively on ESPN and local over-the-air stations in Charlotte and Phoenix, and averaged a 12.8 household rating and 22.199 million viewers.

Saturday’s Wild Card featuring Kansas City and Houston was the first NFL game on ABC in 10 years – since Super Bowl XL in February 2006.

In Kansas City, the game delivered a combined 52.1 rating in the market. In Houston, the game delivered a combined 32.6 rating. The remaining top 10 metered markets included: Denver (24.0), Buffalo (22.6), Norfolk (22.0), Milwaukee (20.3), Cincinnati (20.1), Richmond-Petersburg (19.2), New Orleans and Albuquerque-Santa Fe (19.1), Indianapolis (18.5) and Philadelphia (18.4).

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Saturday, January 9, 2016
ABC PROGRAM HH/Share Viewers
(000)
Adults
18-34
Adults
18-49
Adults
25-54
8-11 Network Average 2.1/4 3390 0.5/2 0.9/3 1.2/3
8:00 black-ish (r) 2.4/4 3999 0.7/3 1.2/4 1.5/4
8:30 black-ish (r) 1.7/3 2866 0.5/2 0.8/3 1.1/3
9:00 black-ish (r) 1.6/3 2705 0.5/2 0.8/2 1.0/3
9:30 black-ish (r) 1.5/3 2462 0.5/2 0.7/2 0.9/2
10:00 20/20 Saturday 2.7/5 2462 0.5/2 0.9/3 1.3/3
CBS PROGRAM HH/Share Viewers
(000)
Adults
18-34
Adults
18-49
Adults
25-54
8-11 Network Average 17.0/28 28196 7.7/29 9.8/30 11.6/30
7:30 AFC Wild Card Pre-Gams (s) 6.8/12 11927 2.7/12 3.6/13 4.4/13
8:08 AFC Wild Card Pre-Kick (s) 12.5/22 22159 5.2/23 6.8/24 8.2/24
8:16 AFC Wild Card Playoff: Pittsburgh @ Cincinnati (thru 11:56) 17.5/30 31226 7.9/32 10.1/32 11.9/32
NBC PROGRAM HH/Share Viewers
(000)
Adults
18-34
Adults
18-49
Adults
25-54
8-11 Network Average 2.7/5 3976 0.3/1 0.7/2 1.0/3
8:00 Dateline Mystery 3.1/5 4547 0.3/1 0.7/2 1.1/3
10:00 Shades of Blue (r) 1.9/3 2834 0.4/1 0.6/2 0.8/2
FOX PROGRAM HH/Share Viewers
(000)
Adults
18-34
Adults
18-49
Adults
25-54
8-10 Network Average 0.5/1 803 0.2/1 0.2/1 0.3/1
8:00 Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life (r) 0.6/1 961 0.3/1 0.3/1 0.4/1
8:30 Bordertown (r) 0.4/1 640 0.2/1 0.2/1 0.3/1
9:00 Rosewood (r) 0.5/1 806 0.2/1 0.2/1 0.3/1
UNI PROGRAM HH/Share Viewers
(000)
Adults
18-34
Adults
18-49
Adults
25-54
8-11 Network Average 0.8/1 1533 0.6/2
5:55 Futbol Mexicano: America vs. Puebla (thru 8:00) 0.7/1 1238 0.5/2
8:00 Sabadazo 0.5/1 952 0.3/1
9:00 Captura de El Chapo 0.9/2 1823 0.7/2

Cable Rankings – Saturday 1/09/16
What follows are the top 20 most-watched shows in prime time on cable for Saturday, January 9:


  1. “SportsCenter” (ESPN, 7:40-8:07 p.m., 1.66 household rating): 2.685 million

  2. Movie: “Love’s Complicated” (2016) (Hallmark, 9 p.m.): 2.229

  3. “The Big Bang Theory” (TBS, 10 p.m.): 2.010

  4. “The Big Bang Theory” (TBS, 9:30 p.m.): 1.939

  5. “The Big Bang Theory” (TBS, 10:30 p.m.): 1.929
  6. “Game Shakers” (Nickelodeon, 8 p.m.): 1.684

  7. Movie: “Despicable Me” (2010) (ABC Family, 7:30 p.m.): 1.664

  8. “The Big Bang Theory” (TBS, 9 p.m.): 1.658

  9. Movie: “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” (2009) (Disney Channel, 8 p.m.): 1.627

  10. Movie: “Love in Paradise” (2016) (Hallmark, 7 p.m.): 1.603
  11. “Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn” (Nickelodeon, 8:30 p.m.): 1.471

  12. Movie: “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015) (HBO, 8 p.m.): 1.466

  13. Movie: “Finding Nemo” (2003) (ABC Family, 9:30 p.m.): 1.456

  14. “House Hunters Renovation” (HGTV, 10 p.m.): 1.413

  15. Movie: “The Proposal” (2009) (USA, 8:30 p.m.): 1.369
  16. “American Dad” (Adult Swim, 10:30 p.m.): 1.362

  17. “College Basketball: North Carolina @ Syracuse” (ESPN, 8:07-10:05 p.m., 0.79 household rating): 1.295

  18. “Property Brothers” (HGTV, 9 p.m.): 1.291

  19. “Lab Rats” (Disney Channel, 9:35 p.m.): 1.280

  20. “Property Brothers” (HGTV, 8 p.m.): 1.242


  • “Futbol Mexicano: Monterrey vs. UNAM” (UDN, 7:53-10:02 p.m., 0.22 household rating): 0.442


For the entire week of January 4-10, 2016 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is up +3 percent in total viewership (1.029 million vs. 0.998 million) and up +11 percent among Adults 18-49 (622,000 vs. 561,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down -11 percent in total viewership (1.029 million vs. 1.158 million) and down -4 percent among Adults 18-49 (622,000 vs. 645,000) from the same week one year ago (January 5-11, 2015). (programminginsider.com)









Adult Swim PROGRAM HH Viewers
(000)
A18-49
rating
8:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai (r) 0.48 756 0.25
8:30 King of the Hill (r) 0.34 524 0.20
9:00 King of the Hill (r) 0.43 683 0.28
9:30 The Cleveland Show (r) 0.56 903 0.39
ProgrammingInsider.com
10:00 The Cleveland Show (r) 0.72 1156 0.50
10:30 American Dad (r) 0.87 1362 0.60
11:00 Family Guy (r) 1564 0.69
11:30 Family Guy (r) 1630 0.74

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Adult Swim PROGRAM Viewers
(000)
A1849
rating
A1849
(000)
12:00a Dragon Ball Z Kai 1275 0.60 767
12:30a Akame Ga Kill 1017 0.48 607
1:00a Parasyte 902 0.43 548
1:30a Samurai Champloo 769 0.38 478
ProgrammingInsider.com
2:00a Naruto: Shippuden 687 0.33 420
2:30a One Piece 664 0.30 386
3:00a Kill La Kill (r) 679 0.31 398






Adult Swim PROGRAM Viewers
(000)
A1849
rating
3:30a The Cleveland Show (r) 688 0.32
4:00a The Cleveland Show (r) 657 0.28
ProgrammingInsider.com
4:30a American Dad (r) 731 0.33
5:00a King of the Hill (r) 690 0.30
5:30a King of the Hill (r) 699 0.31

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research

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