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.

Vwr (mil) HH 18-49 Time Net
NFL: Chiefs @ 49ers
or Jets @ Chargers

19.654

11.5

6.9

10/5 4:25 PM

CBS
Sunday Night Football:
Bengals @ Patriots

19.386

11.7

7.4

10/5 8:30 PM

NBC
CFB: Nebraska @ Michigan State

4.563

2.8

1.4

10/4 8:00 PM

ABC
ALDS: Angels @ Royals, Game 3

4.35

2.6

1.2

10/5 7:30 PM

TBS
CFB: Texas A&M @ Mississippi State

4.101

 

0.6

10/4 12:00 PM

ESPN
CFB: LSU @ Auburn

3.744

 

1.3

10/4 7:00 PM

ESPN
NASCAR: Hollywood Casino 400

3.601

2.3

0.7

10/5 2:00 PM

ESPN
ALDS: Orioles @ Tigers, Game 3

3.297

2.0

0.7

10/5 3:30 PM

TBS
NLDS: Giants @ Nationals, Game 2

3.16

 

0.8

10/4 5:30 PM

FS1
CFB: Arizona State @ USC

2.294

1.4

0.7

10/4 7:30 PM

FOX
CFB: Utah @ UCLA

2.027

 

0.8

10/4 10:30 PM

ESPN
NLDS: Cardinals @ Dodgers, Game 2

1.785

1.0

0.6

10/4 9:30 PM

MLBN
NASCAR Nationwide Series

1.539

 

0.4

10/4 3:30 PM

ESPN
CFB: Wisconsin @ Northwestern

1.257

 

0.3

10/4 3:30 PM

ESPN2
CFB: Miami (FL) @ Georgia Tech

1.133

 

0.4

10/4 7:30 PM

ESPN2
Liga MX

1.062

0.6

0.5

10/4 6:00 PM

Univ.
English Premier League:
Chelsea v. Arsenal

0.874

0.5

10/5 9:15 AM

NBCSN
UFC Fight Night

0.799

0.4

10/5 12:00 AM

FS1
UFC Fight Night (overflow)

0.413

0.3

0.2

10/4 10:00 PM

FX

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.

HH Time Net
NFL: Regional coverage (or 4 PM ET)

12.8

10/5 1:00 PM

FOX
NFL: Regional coverage

11.6

10/5 1:00 PM

CBS
CFB: Alabama @ Mississippi

3.9

10/4 3:30 PM

CBS
CFB: Stanford @ Notre Dame

2.7

10/4 3:30 PM

NBC
CFB: Baylor @ Texas or
Wake Forest @ Florida State

2.3

10/4 3:30 PM

ABC
CFB: Ohio State @ Maryland

2.3

10/4 12:00 PM

ABC
CFB: Oklahoma @ TCU

1.4

10/4 3:30 PM

FOX
English Premier League:
Aston Villa v. Manchester City

0.7

10/4 12:30 PM

NBC

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