Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Sun., Oct. 5-7)
10/08/07 09:34 AM
By ED BARK
Absent a weekend Cowboys game, the annual Texas-OU Cotton Bowl matchup leapt to the top of the D-FW ratings.
ABC's telecast of the State Fair's biggest dog drew 511,476 total homes to squash the competing Georgia-Tennesse faceoff on CBS (14,614 homes).
Only one other weekend football attraction got anywhere near Texas-OU. The Green Bay Packers' dispiriting loss to the Chicago Bears on NBC's Sunday Night Football attracted 355,598 homes.
On Saturday night, CBS beat ABC at its own game in a battle of prime-time college football matchups. Ohio State's easy win over Purdue on ABC's regularly scheduled game of the week managed 90,117 homes opposite CBS' down-to-the-wire LSU-Florida matchup (170,492 homes).
Fictional high school football had a tougher time. The second season premiere of NBC's exceptional Friday Night Lights drew just 80,375 homes and 55,800 advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds. That put it third in each measurement behind ABC's Private Practice repeat and CBS' new vampire series Moonlight.
FNL did beat The CW's Friday Night Smackdown!, though, and also bested a competing repeat of Fox's K-Ville. Still, that's a disappointing showing for an Emmy caliber series that's filmed entirely in the Austin area.
In Friday's local news derby, Belo8 again was tops in total homes but ran well behind NBC5 among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 again ruled the roost at 6 a.m. And the 7 to 9 a.m. portion of its Good Day whipped the three network morning shows in both ratings measurements for the fourth straight weekday.
Belo8 had twin wins at 6 p.m. and also ran first in total homes at 5 p.m. Fox4 took the the top spot at 5 p.m. with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Absent a weekend Cowboys game, the annual Texas-OU Cotton Bowl matchup leapt to the top of the D-FW ratings.
ABC's telecast of the State Fair's biggest dog drew 511,476 total homes to squash the competing Georgia-Tennesse faceoff on CBS (14,614 homes).
Only one other weekend football attraction got anywhere near Texas-OU. The Green Bay Packers' dispiriting loss to the Chicago Bears on NBC's Sunday Night Football attracted 355,598 homes.
On Saturday night, CBS beat ABC at its own game in a battle of prime-time college football matchups. Ohio State's easy win over Purdue on ABC's regularly scheduled game of the week managed 90,117 homes opposite CBS' down-to-the-wire LSU-Florida matchup (170,492 homes).
Fictional high school football had a tougher time. The second season premiere of NBC's exceptional Friday Night Lights drew just 80,375 homes and 55,800 advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds. That put it third in each measurement behind ABC's Private Practice repeat and CBS' new vampire series Moonlight.
FNL did beat The CW's Friday Night Smackdown!, though, and also bested a competing repeat of Fox's K-Ville. Still, that's a disappointing showing for an Emmy caliber series that's filmed entirely in the Austin area.
In Friday's local news derby, Belo8 again was tops in total homes but ran well behind NBC5 among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming.
Fox4 again ruled the roost at 6 a.m. And the 7 to 9 a.m. portion of its Good Day whipped the three network morning shows in both ratings measurements for the fourth straight weekday.
Belo8 had twin wins at 6 p.m. and also ran first in total homes at 5 p.m. Fox4 took the the top spot at 5 p.m. with 25-to-54-year-olds.
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