Ratings roundup is a rundown of ratings news from the past week and is derived from press releases and reports around the industry. In this week's edition, Michigan-Ohio State takes the crown as the most-watched college football game of the season and earns College GameDay its most-watched episode ever, roundup of week 12 in the NFL, NBCSN Delivers Best F1 Season for a Single Cable Network in Two Decades, 10 Million Canadians Watch the 104th Grey CuP on TSN/RDS, Univision Hits Jackpot With Liga MX Playoff Stage of the Apertura 2016, and more.
More Than 17 Million Viewers for Michigan at Ohio State
Michigan-Ohio State's total live audience viewership (TV digital) has surpassed 17 million viewers, making the Big Ten matchup the most-watched game of the season across all networks. The Wolverines-Buckeyes (noon ET on ABC) final total live audience is 17,120,000 viewers, which includes an ESPN college football regular season record-breaking streaming average audience (279,000 viewers). ABC's TV audience (16,841,000 viewers) surpassed the network's Notre Dame-Texas game from opening weekend (Sept. 4 at 7:30 p.m.) as the most-watched game across all networks.
Season-to-date, ABC has televised four of the five most-watched college football games across all networks. The top five are 16,841,000 for Michigan at Ohio State on Nov. 26; 10,945,000 for Notre Dame at Texas on Sept. 4; 10,385,000 for Alabama at LSU on Nov. 5 (on CBS); 9,294,000 for Louisville at Clemson on Oct. 1; and 8,964,000 for Ohio State at Wisconsin on Oct. 15, 2016.
The game was the most-watched college football regular season noon ET kickoff across all networks on record (dating back to 1990), ABC's second most-viewed game dating back to 1991 (out of 791 game windows), top five most-watched regular season game across all networks - which includes conference championship games - on record, and ESPN's most-streamed regular season game ever, including surpassing one million unique users and 69 million minutes watched. The game was also the most social college football event this season with 3,300,000 million uniques and 7,700,000 million total interactions.
College GameDay at Ohio State: Most-Watched Episode in Show's History
College GameDay from Ohio State on Saturday, Nov. 26 (9 a.m. - noon ET), was the show's most-watched regular-season episode on record (382 episodes), garnering a total live audience of 2,682,000 average viewers. ESPN's TV audience (2,614,000 viewers) is the largest for the show since November 24, 2007, from Kansas City - which includes all episodes since the show expanded to three hours in 2013 - and is the second best for the program. Saturday was the most-streamed episode of GameDay, earning an average minute audience of 68,000 viewers. Saturday's College GameDay began with a special start time in advance of the epic showdown between Michigan and Ohio State, with the extra two hours (7 a.m. - 9 a.m.) delivering a total live audience of 885,000 average viewers.
More on Week 13 of ESPN's College Football Season
In week 13 of the college football season, fans watched more than 12,535,457,000 minutes of college football action on ESPN's Nielsen-rated television networks**, 3.2 times more than all other nationally rated television networks combined (3,957,874,000 minutes). For the second time ever, more than 3,000,000 unique viewers streamed ESPN college football in a single week. ESPN's networks aired six of the seven most-watched games across all networks, led by the Michigan-Ohio State game
As for ESPN's other games that week, LSU at Texas A&M (Thursday, Nov. 24 at 7:30 p.m.) delivered a Total live audience of 2,821,000 viewers, ESPN's most-watched Thursday night telecast of the season. ABC's Saturday Night Football Florida at Florida State (8 p.m.) earned a total live audience of 6,513,000 viewers, up 35% from last year's week 13 Saturday Night Football game (Oklahoma at Oklahoma State). Notre Dame at USC (3:30 p.m. ET) notched a total live audience of 5,723,000 viewers, up 34% from last year's comparable time slot (regional action: UCLA at USC and North Carolina at North Carolina State)
NFL Week 12 Roundup
ESPN's Week 12 Monday Night Football game (8:15-11:36 p.m. ET) - a Green Bay Packers 27-13 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles - delivered a total live audience (TV Streaming) of 13,383,000 average viewers. This is ESPN's second-largest MNF audience of the 2016 season, behind the week four Giants-Vikings game, which delivered a total live audience of 13,494,000 average viewers. On TV (ESPN and ESPN Deportes), the game delivered 13,129,000 average viewers. On ESPN, the game averaged a 7.8 US household rating. The game rating peaked during the 9:30-9:45 p.m. quarter hour with a 9.2 household rating and 15,510,000 viewers. ESPN's streaming audience for Packers-Eagles attracted an additional average minute audience of 254,000 viewers across the ESPN and ESPN Deportes streams, a 96 percent gain year-over-year. Between the two streams there were 616,000 viewers who watched 51 million live minutes - up 52 and 87 percent year-over-year, respectively. In Milwaukee, the game delivered a 17.4 rating on ESPN and a 27.4 on WISN-ABC, for a combined 44.8 rating in the market. In Philadelphia, the game delivered a 13.8 rating on ESPN and a 16.1 on WPVI-ABC, for a combined 29.9 rating in the market.
Meanwhile, Sunday Night Football delivered an 11.8 household rating for the OT battle between the Broncos and Chiefs. The NBC matchup was off-pace by 37% below the household rating for 2015's Week 12 SNF game, which scored a 16.2 in the overnights in a Broncos/Patriots showdown. Top markets for KC/Denver: Denver 45.9/68; Kansas City 41.0/60; Albuquerque 20.8/32; Vegas 17.1/27; Sacramento 16.4/26.
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