Delayed markets: Fort Myers, Tampa, West Palm Beach, Miami, Orlando Reports on Hurricane Irma in various markets may have factored in the data Full game overnights (all times Eastern) Okla-Ohio State: 5.3 overnight, highest of Week 2 across all nets & ABC's best non-opening week Sept. game since '11 https://t.co/hU3Dxn4UaQ pic.twitter.com/2aXWHjjz60 — ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) […]
Saturday Night Football
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by Douglas Pucci Comments are off
Saturday night television was given a solid jolt with the return of college football as ABC dominated the evening with its “Saturday Night Football” presentation of the Florida State Seminoles versus the Alabama Crimson Tide. Including streaming viewership, Alabama’s victory over Florida State delivered a total live audience of 12.56 million viewers, now the most-watched […]
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by Marc Berman Comments are off
What follows are the fast affiliate results for Saturday, September 2, 2017 broken out by network and by each half-hour. -Total Viewers: ABC: 12.00 million, NBC: 2.74, Fox: 1.72, CBS: 1.5/ 3 -Adults 18-49: ABC: 3.8 rating/17 share, CBS: 0.5/ 2, Fox: 0.4/ 2, NBC: 0.3/ 2 —— 8:00 p.m. ABC – College Football (Florida […]
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ABC in 2017-18: 14 New Series (5 for Fall, 9 for Midseason Including ‘American Idol’ and ‘Roseanne’)
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ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey unveiled the network’s new 2017-18 programming lineup to the advertising and media communities on Tuesday, May 16 at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall in New York City. “I’m very proud of this year’s slate of series at ABC. We’ve focused on some of the universal themes that unite us – […]
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Saturday Final Nationals: Slight Year-to-Year Decline for Big Ten Championship Game on Fox
by Douglas Pucci Comments are off
Fox was the definitive winner on Saturday night with Penn State’s 38-31 victory over Wisconsin in the 2016 “Big Ten Championship Game.” Compared to the year-ago Big Ten title game (Michigan State-Iowa, 12/05/15), Penn State-Wisconsin was down 6 percent in total viewers (9.189 million vs. 9.818 million) and down 11 percent in adults 18-49 (3.401 […]
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by Douglas Pucci Comments are off
ABC’s highly-rated Saturday culminated with a dominant prime time victory, courtesy of the matchup of in-state rivals Florida and Florida State on “Saturday Night Football.” The game (and the top TV telecast) of the day took place at noon ET on ABC with the No. 3 Michigan Wolverines visiting their arch-rival No. 2 Ohio State […]
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by Douglas Pucci Comments are off
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
by Douglas Pucci Comments are off
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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by Douglas Pucci Comments are off
“Back to the Future! 1985 Revisited!” That was a quote uttered by legendary play-by-play radio announcer Gary Dolphin as he called Iowa Hawkeyes kicker Keith Duncan’s 33-yard game-winning field goal to upset the previously-unbeaten Michigan Wolverines 14-13 at Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium. Michigan had been ranked second in the nation, according to the most recent Associated […]