ESPN definitively won this Monday all around with the Clemson Tigers’ thrilling 35-31 victory over the No. 1-seeded Alabama Crimson Tide in the “College Football Playoff National Championship.” The game — which ended at 12:36 a.m. ET — delivered a total live audience across the multi-network MegaCast (TV feeds + streaming) of 26.029 million viewers. […]
The Clemson Tigers upset the Alabama Crimson Tide and won the college football national championship, 35-31, in Tampa early Tuesday morning (Jan. 10). In a wild second half, Clemson scored with 1 second left to stun Alabama. Clemson was led by its star quarterback, Deshaun Watson, who threw for 420 yards despite facing a defense […]
The match-ups for the 2016-17 college football bowl season are set. ESPN will deliver the third year of the College Football Playoff Semifinals on New Year’s Eve Saturday, Dec. 31. At 3pm eastern, the SEC champion Alabama Crimson Tide and the Pac-12 champion Washington Huskies meet at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, Ga. for the […]
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 […]
Saturday night TV audiences increased significantly as they turned out in droves for the start of the 2016 college football season. ABC easily won the night overall with “Saturday Night Football” despite Alabama’s trouncing 52-6 victory over USC. In year-to-year total viewers, USC-Alabama (7.944 million) fell below a mere 0.3 percent from Wisconsin-Alabama (7.967 million […]
What follows are the fast affiliate results for Saturday, September 3 broken out by network and by each half-hour. -Total Viewers: ABC: 7.53 million, CBS: 2.89, NBC: 1.56, Fox: 1.39 -Adults 18-49: ABC: 2.4 rating/10 share, CBS: 0.5/ 2, Fox: 0.4/ 2, NBC: 0.3/ 1 ———- 8:00 p.m. ABC – College Football: USC vs. Alabama […]
The College Football Playoff National Championship – an Alabama 45-40 victory over Clemson – averaged 25.667 million total viewers and a 14.7 household rating, marking it the most-watched cable program since the inaugural CFP National Championship (Jan 12, 2015). To-date, the audience is the sixth best in the history of cable. As a result, ESPN […]
ABC’s 49th Annual CMA Awards proved potent on social media, topping all televised events (including sports) on Twitter for the week of Nov. 2. According to Nielsen, the Nov. 4 event totaled 631,000 tweets written by 236,000 unique authors, which were seen by a unique audience of 6.36 million people (generating 70.56 million Twitter TV […]
