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BCS championship game also ratings champ
Ricardo B. Brazziell/AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Hitfix.com has reported the ratings for Thursday night’s BCS Championship game. The post says the game topped the prime time numbers in every possible measure. From the story:
Among adults 18-49, ABC averaged a 9.5 rating, far more than the combined totals for CBS (2.1 rating), NBC (1.5 rating), FOX (1.4 rating) and The CW (0.6 rating) in the key demographic.
Overall, ABC averaged an estimated 28.5 million viewers to go with a 15.8 rating/24 share. CBS was a distant second with a 6.7/10 and an estimated 10.26 million viewers. FOX’s 2.9/4 and the 2.7/4 for NBC were fare back, still beating the 1.1/2 for The CW.
One rating point equals 1% of total TV households; share is the percentage of television sets in use tuned to the program.Last night’s numbers are even with those of last year’s Florida-Oklahoma battle on FOX, which also drew a 15.8 average rating.
The game’s hourly ratings: 8 p.m.: 14.8/22 for the start of the football game, which also did an 8.5 rating in the key demo. 9 p.m.: 18.0/27 and an 11.0 rating in the demo for ABC. 10 p.m.: 14.5/23.
The article notes that cancellation rumors did not lead to any spike in ratings for NBC’s “Jay leno Show,”couldn’t stir up interest in NBC’s “The Jay Leno Show,” which only scored a 3.0/5.
As with all Nielsen preliminary reports, numbers are subject to change.
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