ESPN’s “College GameDay” is averaging 1.95 million viewers this season to date, marking the pregame show’s best figure through Week 6 since ’11, when it was averaging just over 2.0 million viewers. The “GameDay” audience is up from 1.79 million viewers at the same point last year and up from 1.87 million viewers in ’13. This season’s first show on Sept. 5 from Ft. Worth -- site of the Alabama-Wisconsin matchup -- drew 2.23 million viewers, marking the show’s best audience since Nov. 24, 2012, when it aired from the Notre Dame-USC game. Meanwhile, ABC averaged 4.9 million viewers for Texas’ upset win over Oklahoma last Saturday in the 12:00pm ET window, marking the Red River Showdown’s best audience since 6.5 million viewers in ’11. The audience was up from 4.2 million viewers last season and 4.7 million viewers in ’13.
EYE ON THE BALL: CBS through five weeks of the NFL season is averaging 18.2 million viewers, the most for the AFC TV package through this point in the season since '87.
The charts below list final audience figures from recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
(ET)
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
| College football: Oklahoma-Texas |
10/10
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
4,992
|
| College football: (regional) |
10/10
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:15pm
|
3,466
|
| College football: Miami-Florida State |
10/10
|
ABC
|
8:07-11:54pm
|
3,502
|
| "College Football Today" |
10/10
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
919
|
| College football: Georgia-Tennessee |
10/10
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:30pm
|
4,884
|
| "Fox College Saturday" |
10/10
|
Fox
|
7:00-7:30pm
|
NA
|
| College football: TCU-Kansas State |
10/10
|
Fox
|
7:36-11:14pm
|
2,784
|
| Golf: Presidents Cup* |
10/10
|
NBC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
1,000
|
| College football: Navy-Notre Dame |
10/10
|
NBC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
2,600
|
| "World of X Games: Real Ski Backcountry" |
10/11
|
ABC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
300
|
| "STIHL Timbersports Series" |
10/11
|
ABC
|
4:00-5:00pm
|
608
|
| "The NFL Today" |
10/11
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3,225
|
| NFL: (regional) |
10/11
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
13,592
|
| NFL: Patriots-Cowboys (81%) |
10/11
|
CBS
|
4:25-7:30pm
|
26,129
|
| "Fox NFL Kickoff" |
10/11
|
Fox
|
11:00am-12:00pm
|
NA
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
10/11
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
NA
|
| NFL: (singleheader) |
10/11
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:00pm
|
NA
|
| "Street League Skateboarding" |
10/11
|
Fox
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
NA
|
| Golf: Presidents Cup* |
10/11
|
NBC
|
1:00-6:00pm
|
1,100
|
| "Football Night In America" |
10/11
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
8,730
|
| Sunday Night Football: 49ers-Giants |
10/11
|
NBC
|
8:31-11:39pm
|
19,586
|
| "Thursday Night Football": Colt-Texans |
10/8
|
NFL Network
|
8:26-11:27pm
|
15,075
|
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
(ET)
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
| "Monday Night Football": Lions-Seahawks |
10/5
|
ESPN
|
8:15-11:23pm
|
14,403
|
| NL Wild Card: Cubs-Pirates |
10/7
|
TBS
|
8:00-11:11pm
|
8,302
|
| AL Wild Card: Astros-Yankees |
10/6
|
ESPN
|
7:58-11:21pm
|
7,604
|
| NLDS: Cubs-Cardinals: Game 1 |
10/9
|
TBS
|
6:38-9:40pm
|
5,376
|
| College football: Arkansas-Alabama |
10/10
|
ESPN
|
7:00-10:37pm
|
4,835
|
| NLDS: Mets-Dodgers: Game 1 |
10/9
|
TBS
|
9:40pm-1:08am
|
4,714
|
| NLDS: Cubs-Cardinals: Game 2 |
10/10
|
TBS
|
5:30-8:42pm
|
4,608
|
| NLDS: Mets-Dodgers: Game 2 |
10/10
|
TBS
|
9:00pm-12:37am
|
4,211
|
| ALDS: Astros-Royals: Game 1 |
10/8
|
FS1
|
7:30-11:41pm
|
3,300
|
| "Thursday Night Football": Colt-Texans |
10/8
|
NFL Network
|
8:26-11:27pm
|
2,840
|
