Weekend Sports Ratings for October 4-5

This post will eventually become home to the weekly ratings roundups I was doing for a while last year. For now, The Futon Critic lost its source for ratings a while back, and Douglas “SonOfTheBronx” Pucci has made up for it and then some on TV Media Insights, including some daytime cable shows not on the TVbytheNumbers list, and that was already making for some pretty crowded tweets on the weekends that made me start thinking about putting weekend ratings in the roundup post. Now he’s started including household ratings (and even 18-34 ratings!) for broadcast and cable shows, which has started making even my weekday tweets too crowded to bother with. I’m not even going to attempt it with the weekend, even though I’m way behind where I should be with the ratings overall. Admittedly it’s especially bad now with the baseball playoffs and both college and pro football going on; the cupboard could be quite bare in July.

I’m also giving in and listing overnight ratings just for events in broadcast daytime that don’t show up on either site, certainly not right away, just to serve as a placeholder and give a general sense of how those events did, but I’m graying out the numbers to indicate their uselessness. To get a sense of the scale here, at least for college football, Saturday Night Football got the same 2.3 overnight as the other ABC games.

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Weekend Broadcast Primetime and Top Cable Sports Ratings

All information from TVByTheNumbers and TV Media Insights.

Weekend Broadcast Daytime Overnight Sports Ratings

These numbers only incorporate data from the 56 metered markets and should not be used to infer precise final ratings. Events will generally finish in the same order, but not always. All information from Sports Media Watch.