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Saturday Ratings: Georgia vs. Clemson in College Football Ignites ABC

SATURDAY FAST AFFILIATE RATINGS

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Saturday 9/04/21 Fast Affiliate Ratings

Total Viewers:
ABC: 7.74 million, Fox: 2.43, CBS: 1.52, NBC: 837,000

Adults 18-49:
ABC: 2.0 rating/18 share, Fox: 0.6/ 5, CBS and NBC: 0.1/ 1 each

ABC was alive and very well on this Saturday evening care of College Football, Georgia vs Clemson, which averaged 7.74 million viewers and a 2.0 rating/18 share in adults 18-49 in primetime. That easily beat the three competing broadcast networks combined. Results for any live sporting event, of course, are approximate.

Also airing college football was Fox, which featured LSU vs. UCLA, and average 2.43 million viewers and a 0.6/ 5 in the demo.

Elsewhere, CBS aired special “8:46 Films”, a collection of four narrative shorts telling stories of Black love and joy, eight minutes and 46 seconds at a time, in the Saturday 8 p.m. ET hour. It averaged just 873,000 viewers and a 0.1/ 1 in adults 18-49. Opposite it was coverage of the 2020 Tokyo Paralymics, which scored 827,000 viewers and also a 0.1/ 1 in the demo. The remainder of the evening was repeats.

UPDATED 9/08/2021 9:17 AM ET: What follows are the Live + Same Day rating results for the night’s network telecasts on Saturday, September 4:

ABC
• 9.069 million viewers
• 4.7/13 HH (5.775 million households)
• 2.4/22 A18-49 rating/share (3.186 million adults 18-49)

Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Alabama at Miami (FL) (S) (ABC, 03:48 PM- 7:14 PM)
• 5.674 million viewers
• 3.0/10 HH (3.706 million households)
• 1.5/17 A18-49 rating/share (2.006 million adults 18-49)

College Football Scoreboard (Sustainer) (ABC, 7:14 PM- 7:30 PM)
• 4.930 million viewers
• 2.6/8 HH (3.200 million households)
• 1.4/15 A18-49 rating/share (1.870 million adults 18-49)

Nissan Pregame Drive (S) (ABC, 7:30 PM- 7:37 PM)
• 5.891 million viewers
• 3.1/10 HH (3.778 million households)
• 1.7/17 A18-49 rating/share (2.233 million adults 18-49)

Duke’s Mayo Classic Georgia at Clemson (S) (ABC, 7:37 PM-11:09 PM)
• 8.863 million viewers
• 4.6/13 HH (5.663 million households)
• 2.4/21 A18-49 rating/share (3.112 million adults 18-49)

CBS
• 1.557 million viewers
• 1.0/3 HH (1.252 million households)
• 0.2/1 A18-49 rating/share (0.210 million adults 18-49)

8:46 Films (Sustainer) (CBS, 8:00 PM- 9:00 PM)
• 0.831 million viewers
• 0.6/2 HH (0.679 million households)
• 0.1/1 A18-49 rating/share (0.115 million adults 18-49)

NBC
• 0.921 million viewers
• 0.6/2 HH (0.690 million households)
• 0.1/1 A18-49 rating/share (0.160 million adults 18-49)

Paralympics Tokyo (S) (NBC, 8:00 PM-10:00 PM)
• 0.883 million viewers
• 0.5/1 HH (0.652 million households)
• 0.1/1 A18-49 rating/share (0.158 million adults 18-49)

Fox
• 2.563 million viewers
• 1.4/4 HH (1.682 million households)
• 0.7/6 A18-49 rating/share (0.879 million adults 18-49)

Fox College Football – Big 12 Evening Louisiana at Texas (Fox, 4:36 PM- 7:55 PM)
• 2.879 million viewers
• 1.6/5 HH (1.899 million households)
• 0.8/9 A18-49 rating/share (1.078 million adults 18-49)

Fox CFB Postgun (Fox, 7:55 PM- 8:01 PM)
• 1.861 million viewers
• 1.0/3 HH (1.245 million households)
• 0.5/5 A18-49 rating/share (0.683 million adults 18-49)

Fox CFB Extra-Prime (Fox, 8:01 PM- 8:46 PM)
• 1.698 million viewers
• 0.9/3 HH (1.114 million households)
• 0.5/4 A18-49 rating/share (0.597 million adults 18-49)

Fox College Football – Pac-12 Prime LSU at UCLA (Fox, 8:46 PM-12:13 AM)
• 3.219 million viewers
• 1.8/5 HH (2.172 million households)
• 0.9/8 A18-49 rating/share (1.172 million adults 18-49)

Univision
• 0.853 million viewers
• 0.5/1 HH (0.560 million households)
• 0.2/2 A18-49 rating/share (0.315 million adults 18-49)

Nosotros Los Guapos (Univision, 7:00 PM- 7:30 PM)
• 0.583 million viewers
• 0.3/1 HH (0.393 million households)
• 0.1/1 A18-49 rating/share (0.168 million adults 18-49)

Nosotros Los Guapos (Univision, 7:30 PM- 8:00 PM)
• 0.544 million viewers
• 0.3/1 HH (0.400 million households)
• 0.1/1 A18-49 rating/share (0.190 million adults 18-49)

Cine Especial (Univision, 8:00 PM-11:00 PM)
• 0.853 million viewers
• 0.5/1 HH (0.560 million households)
• 0.2/2 A18-49 rating/share (0.315 million adults 18-49)

UniMás
• 0.268 million viewers
• 0.1/0 HH (0.151 million households)
• 0.1/1 A18-49 rating/share (0.126 million adults 18-49)

Major League Soccer Real Salt Lake vs. FC Dallas (UniMás, 8:00 PM-10:02 PM)
• 0.273 million viewers
• 0.1/0 HH (0.152 million households)
• 0.1/1 A18-49 rating/share (0.130 million adults 18-49)

Major League Soccer San Jose Earthquakes vs. Colorado Rapids (UniMás, 10:02 PM-12:10 AM)
• 0.286 million viewers
• 0.1/0 HH (0.159 million households)
• 0.1/1 A18-49 rating/share (0.123 million adults 18-49)

Telemundo
• 0.637 million viewers
• 0.4/1 HH (0.461 million households)
• 0.2/2 A18-49 rating/share (0.283 million adults 18-49)

Cine Telemundo Saturday Iii The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Telemundo, 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM)
• 0.575 million viewers
• 0.3/1 HH (0.423 million households)
• 0.2/2 A18-49 rating/share (0.221 million adults 18-49)

Cine Telemundo Saturday IV Hanna (Telemundo, 9:00 PM-11:00 PM)
• 0.626 million viewers
• 0.4/1 HH (0.453 million households)
• 0.2/2 A18-49 rating/share (0.290 million adults 18-49)

Source: Nielsen Media Research

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