Spotted Ratings, Saturday 10/1/11

WHAT MATTERS:

• Though CBS' deal with the Southeastern Conference is usually for late-afternoon games, they also get the occasional primetime turn as they did on this evening. The Alabama vs. Florida matchup dominated the evening and easily handled ABC's Nebraska/Wisconsin game, which was ABC's weakest Saturday night game of the season to date. Bama/Florida was, though, down a tenth from last year's primetime game between the same two teams.

• A two-hour encore  of Terra Nova easily beat its NBC repeat competition (Harry's Law and Prime Suspect). I would say that bodes well and you have to think I'm a genius because we know it held 100% of its premiere rating on Monday.

FULL TABLE:

	Viewers	A18-49	Share	Skew	Last	Lead	LeLa	Avg	Rank	TRUE
Sports: Saturday Night Football Pregame	4.53	1.2	4	34%	-20%	n/a	n/a	-20%	4/4	1.37
Sports: Saturday Night Football	5.75	1.8	6	40%	-22%	+50%	-20%	-35%	4/4	2.05
Sports: CBS College FB	7.59	2.8	9	47%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	3.25
Harry's Law (R)	4.15	0.5	2	15%	-17%	n/a	n/a	-17%	2/2	0.48
Prime Suspect (R)	4.56	0.6	2	17%	-14%	+20%	-17%	-14%	2/2	0.59
Law & Order: SVU (R)	5.16	1.0	3	25%	+25%	+67%	-14%	+25%	1/2	1.20
Terra Nova (R)	2.88	0.9	3	40%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1	0.96

KEY (with much more detail at the New Daily Spotted Ratings page):

Viewers - The total number of viewers (age 2+, in millions) that watched the program.
A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.
Share - Adults 18-49 share. Percentage of US TV-watching adults 18-49 watching the program.
Skew - Percentage of the total audience that falls in the 18-49 demo.
Last - A18-49 percent difference from previous episode.
Lead - A18-49 percent difference from lead-in program.
LeLa - A18-49 percent difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.
Avg - A18-49 percent difference from the show's average demo for previous original episodes this season.
Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes that have aired so far this season.
TRUE - True Strength, a metric developed last summer that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in.

(R) - Repeat.

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