CBS and ABC shared Saturday leadership. CBS, with an “NCIS” rerun and two hours of newsmagazine “48 Hours”, led in total viewers (4.29 million) while ABC, with Oklahoma-West Virginia on “Saturday Night Football”, led in all key demos. The Hallmark film “My Christmas Dream”, starring Danica McKellar (“The Wonder Years”) and Diedre Hall (“Days of […]
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Saturday Final Nationals: Major Upsets in College Football Leads to ABC Victory and Fox’s Rise
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ABC was the dominant No. 1 network on Saturday night, beating runner-up Fox with its college football coverage by 32 percent in viewership and 31 percent among adults 18-49. Airing from 8:07-11:55pm, Iowa’s 14-13 upset of Michigan on “Saturday Night Football” was the evening’s #1 program in total viewers and adults 18-49 and rose over […]
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Saturday Final Nationals: Alabama-LSU on CBS Draws Top College Football TV Audience in Two Months
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CBS dominated Saturday night with the college football matchup of perennial Southeastern Conference rivals “Alabama Crimson Tide at LSU Tigers.” Alabama’s 10-0 win in Baton Rouge delivered 10.385 million viewers which was the most-watched college football game on TV since ABC’s Notre Dame-Texas on Sep. 4 (10.945 million) which had taken place on the season’s […]
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Adult Swim has issued a second season renewal to live action comedy “Decker: Unclassified,” with an unspecified number of new episodes ordered for 2017. Debuting on June 17, 2016 after airing online on AdultSwim.com, “Decker: Unclassified” follows Agent Jack Decker (Tim Heidecker) as he subverts terrorist plots against his beloved America. Joined by ally and […]
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Fox easily led Saturday night with the Cleveland Indians’ 7-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs in Game 4 of the “World Series.” The game scored 16.7 million viewers for Fox, up +23 percent (vs. 13.6 million viewers) over 2015 World Series Game 4: Kansas City Royals at New York Mets. Saturday night’s telecast is […]
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Sports cable network FS1 dominated the TV landscape Saturday night with its coverage of the Chicago Cubs’ first National League pennant in 71 years as a result of their 5-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 6 of the “National League Championship Series.” The game delivered 9.706 million viewers and a 6.3 overnight […]
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by Douglas Pucci Comments are off
The Big Ten matchup of Ohio State and Wisconsin on “Saturday Night Football” drove ABC to an overwhelming win on Saturday night. The Chicago Cubs’ 8-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the “National League Championship Series” drew a 3.2 U.S. household rating and 5.924 million viewers, providing the cable network […]
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Florida State-Miami was the “Saturday Night Football” game on ABC on this evening as the network won the night overall. A new MLB Network viewership record was set on the night, courtesy of San Francisco-Chicago Cubs Game 2 of the “National League Division Series”. At a 2.5 U.S. household rating and 4.6 million viewers, it […]
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ABC dominated Saturday prime time with “Saturday Night Football” which featured a matchup of two teams from the Associated Press top-5, No. 3 Louisville at No. 5 Clemson with Clemson prevailing 42-36 in a thriller. The game’s opposing quarterbacks are contenders for this year’s Heisman Trophy: Louisville’s Lamar Jackson and Clemson’s Deshaun Watson. Louisville-Clemson ranks […]