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An encore telecast of “Saturday Night Live,” with host Martin
Short and musical guest Paul McCartney, averaged a 3.1/8 in
metered-market households. In the 25 markets with Local People
Meters, last night’s “Saturday Night Live” delivered a 1.7 rating, 8
share in adults 18-49. “SNL” delivered the top rating of the night
among ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in the Local People Meters, topping all
primetime programming on those networks in 18-49.
Saturday Primetime Results:
* At 8 p.m. ET, “American Ninja Warrior” averaged a 0.6/2 in 18-49
and 1.9 million viewers overall, matching its 18-49 rating of the
prior week and improving by 2 percent in total viewers (1.946 million
vs. 1.905 million).
* At 9 p.m. ET, a rebroadcast of “Chicago Fire” earned a 0.4/1 in
18-49 and 1.9 million viewers overall, equaling its 18-49 rating of
the previous week and growing by 11 percent in total viewers (1.923
million vs. 1.737 million).
* At 10 p.m. ET, a rebroadcast of “Saturday Night Live,” with host
Christoph Waltz and musical guest Alabama Shakes (0.8/3 in 18-49, 2.4
million viewers overall) doubled its 18-49 lead-in to equal NBC’s
highest non-sports 18-49 rating in the time period since December 22.
The “SNL” encore grew from its first half-hour to its second by 29
percent in adults 18-49 (to a 0.9 rating from a 0.7), 22 percent in
adults 25-54 (1.1 vs. 0.9) and 15 percent in total viewers (2.5
million vs. 2.2 million). In the time period, the “SNL” encore was #1
among ABC, CBS and NBC in men 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54.

The networks, big 4, will never give up their primetime hours. Once they give them up, its almost impossible to get it back. Part of the reason FOX as not trued late night talk (11pm week nights), is all the issues and contacts tied up with the affiliates.

Quote from yankeesrj12 on February 24, 2013, 18:53
Can the networks just hand Saturday nights back over to their affiliates? Clearly none of them are trying and at this point its a lost cause anyway.

Networks aren’t trying and that’s the problem.

With that said, the Saturday ratings aren’t far off from Fridays and the gap appears to be narrowing each year. Networks are at the point where they are going to have to program Saturdays with something else but repeats.

Jacoby Jones from Super Bowl champions Baltimore Ravens joining DWTS.

SUNDAY 2/24/13 Metered Markets

Household
Rating/Share
ABC 21.7/33
CBS 3.8/ 6
NBC 2.0/ 3
Fox 1.8/ 3

-Percent Change from Year-Ago Evening – Sunday 2/26/12:
ABC: + 1, CBS: – 5, Fox: -10. NBC: -35

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-Winners:
The Oscars Red Carpet (ABC), The 85th Annual Academy Awards (ABC)

-Losers (excluding repeats):
Nothing…82 percent of the remainder of the schedule were encore telecasts.

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-Ratings Breakdown:
It was no contest, of course, with The 85th Annual Academy Awards on ABC at a hefty 27.0 rating/40 share in the overnights for the primetime portion (from 8:30-11 p.m. ET) and a 26.6/41 overall. Comparably, this was right on par with the 26.5/40 on the year-ago evening (which translated into 39.43 million viewers and an 11.7 rating/27 share among adults 18-49, based on the Live Plus Same Day data). Here is the half-hour breakdown:

85th Annual Academy Awards
8:30 p.m.: 25.9/38
9:00 p.m.: 27.2/39
9:30 p.m.: 27.3/39
10:00 p.m.: 27.5/41
10:30 p.m.: 27.0/42

Earlier in the evening on ABC was The Oscars Red Carpet special at an average 13.0/21 in the overnights from 7-8:30 p.m., which was also close to year-ago levels. Take a look:

Oscars Red Carpet (ABC)
7:00 p.m.: 9.4/16
7:30 p.m.: 11.9/20
8:00 p.m.: 17.8/28

For a complete listing of the winners, click on the following: http://tinyurl.com/alxk98n

Aside from The Amazing Race (#2: 4.6/ 7 at 8 p.m.) on CBS, everything else last night was a repeat. CBS flipped time periods with The Good Wife and The Mentalist, with a 9 p.m. encore edition of The Mentalist (#2: 2.9/ 4) leading into a 2.2/ 4 (#2) for The Good Wife encore at 10 p.m. A repeat of 60 Minutes opened the evening with a 5.0/ 8 at 7 p.m.

NBC’s encore line-up was Dateline (#3: 3.0/ 5 at 7 p.m.), two episodes of Betty White’s Off Their Rockers (#3t, avg. 1.9/ 3 from 8-9 p.m.) and two-hour special, SNL In the 2000s: Time And Again (1.6/ 2 from 9-11 p.m.). And Fox aired animated repeats of Bob’s Burgers (#4: 1.6/ 3), The Cleveland Show (#4: 1.5/ 2), The Simpsons (#3: 2.2/ 3), another episode of The Cleveland Show (#3t, 1.7/ 2), Family Guy (#3: 2.0/ 3) and American Dad (#3: 1.8/ 3).

Needless to say, it was all about The Oscars.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data