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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Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon) performs “Hallelujah” as tribute to the late Leonard Cohen Dave Chappelle monologue Dave Chappelle at a viewing party watching the presidential election results “The Walking Dead” parody revives the characters of “Chappelle’s Show” Weekend Update covers presidential election news Two drunk people at a bar Kyle Mooney and Leslie Jones fall […]
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ESPN again won Monday night in total viewers and all key demos with Buffalo Bills-Seattle Seahawks on “Monday Night Football.” The timely Election Eve comedy special “SNL Election Special” on NBC easily defeated its 10 p.m. competition on ABC and NBC and well retained its “The Voice” lead-in: 80 percent in viewers (8.022 million from […]
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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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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2016 ABC 8:00 p.m. “Dancing With the Stars” (two hours) 10:00 p.m. “Conviction” CBS 8:00 p.m. “Kevin Can Wait” 8:30 p.m. “Man With a Plan” 9:00 p.m. “2 Broke Girls” 9:30 p.m. “The Odd Couple” 10:00 p.m. “Scorpion” NBC 8:00 p.m. “The Voice” (two hours) 10:00 p.m. “Saturday Night Live”: The 2016 […]
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Comedian Dave Chappelle is scheduled to return to television sketch comedy but this time, he will host NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” for the first time in his career on Nov. 12. This will be the first edition for the late-night sketch show after the results of the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election. The Twitter account […]
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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 […]