ABC’s “Saturday Night Football” is averaging 6.1 million viewers over the first five weeks of the season, up 3% over the same period in ’15. Last week’s Louisville-Clemson matchup has been the top game in the window to date with 9.3 million viewers. That figure also is the most for any Saturday college football game of the season. Louisville-Clemson is the third most-watched “Saturday Night Football” matchup on record. ABC's Saturday primetime window also has garnered 101,000 average streaming audience minutes, an 84% increase over last season at this point. Meanwhile, CBS averaged 4.2 million viewers for Tennessee's last-second win over Georgia in the 3:30pm ET window, down 40% from 7.0 million for Alabama's blowout win over Georgia in the same Week 6 window last year.
RYDERS ON THE STORM: NBC finished with 4.3 million viewers for its Sunday coverage of the Ryder Cup (12:00-6:00pm ET), which saw the U.S. win the event for the first time since '08. That number is down 22% from 5.5 million viewers for Sunday coverage in '12, the last time the event was held in the U.S. Sunday's viewership figure is up 95% from the '14 event in Scotland, when it aired primarily in the morning.
The chart below lists final audience figures from select recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
| NFL: Cowboys-49ers (84%) |
10/2
|
Fox
|
4:25-7:30pm
|
13.1
|
22,697
|
| "SNF": Chiefs-Steelers |
10/2
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
10.3
|
18,057
|
| NFL: (singleheader) |
10/2
|
CBS
|
1:03-4:11pm
|
9.4
|
16,446
|
| NFL: (regional) |
10/2
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
6.7
|
11,231
|
| College football: Louisville-Clemson |
10/1
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
5.5
|
9,294
|
| "Football Night in America" |
10/2
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:20pm
|
4.7
|
8,113
|
| "MNF": Falcons-Saints |
9/26
|
ESPN
|
8:15-11:37pm
|
4.9
|
8,047
|
| "TNF": Dolphins-Bengals |
9/29
|
NFL Net
|
8:27-11:17pm
|
4.8
|
7,897
|
| NFL: Colts-Jaguars (London) |
10/2
|
CBS
|
9:36am-12:54pm
|
4.8
|
7,693
|
| College football: Wisconsin-Michigan |
10/1
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
4.3
|
6,851
|
| Ryder Cup: Day 3 |
10/2
|
NBC
|
12:00-6:00pm
|
2.7
|
4,300
|
| College football: Tennessee-Georgia |
10/1
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
2.5
|
4,215
|
| College football: Texas-Oklahoma State |
10/1
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
2.4
|
3,799
|
| College Football: Stanford-Washington |
9/30
|
ESPN
|
8:55pm-12:15am
|
2.0
|
3,333
|
| Ryder Cup: Day 2 |
10/1
|
NBC
|
9:00am-7:17pm
|
2.1
|
3,310
|
| College Football: Kentucky-Alabama |
10/1
|
ESPN
|
7:05-10:21pm
|
1.9
|
3,190
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
10/2
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.0
|
3,167
|
| "Thursday Night Football Postgame" |
9/29
|
NFL Net
|
11:20pm-12:00am
|
1.8
|
2,737
|
| "The NFL Today" |
10/2
|
CBS
|
9:00-9:36am
|
1.8
|
2,653
|
NASCAR Sprint Cup:
AAA 400 (Dover) |
10/2
|
NBCSN
|
2:23-5:26pm
|
n/a
|
2,558
|
PBR: Wrangler Long Live
Cowboys Classic |
10/2
|
CBS
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
1.4
|
2,132
|
| College football: Notre Dame-Syracuse |
10/1
|
ESPN
|
12:00-3:40pm
|
n/a
|
2,104
|
| College football: Oklahoma-TCU |
10/1
|
Fox
|
5:06-8:54pm
|
1.3
|
2,044
|
| "College GameDay" |
10/1
|
ESPN
|
9:00am-12:00pm
|
n/a
|
1,828
|
College football:
North Carolina-Florida State |
10/1
|
ESPN
|
3:40-7:05pm
|
n/a
|
1,743
|
| College football: Arizona State-USC |
10/1
|
Fox
|
8:54pm-12:11am
|
0.9
|
1,500
|
| "Monday Night Countdown" |
9/26
|
ESPN
|
6:00-8:15pm
|
n/a
|
1,434
|
| MLB: (regional) |
10/1
|
Fox
|
1:02-4:20pm
|
0.9
|
1,328
|
| "College Football Today" |
10/1
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.8
|
1,278
|
| "Fox NFL Kickoff" |
10/2
|
Fox
|
11:00am-12:00pm
|
0.5
|
693
|
"World of X Games:
Creating A Monster, Doonies 2" |
10/2
|
ABC
|
4:30-5:00pm
|
0.3
|
504
|
"World of X Games:
Jackson Strong's Headstrong 2" |
10/2
|
ABC
|
4:00-4:30pm
|
0.3
|
489
|
