Preliminary Ratings: Saturday 09/05/15

The last weekend of summer brought the first weekend of college football. ABC and NBC benefited from the increased ratings on a normally down night, with ABC seeing big numbers to win the night.

ABC's season premiere of its Saturday night football package drew a strong 7.9 million viewers and mid-twos in the three young demographic ratings. This could be enough for the network to win the week in the demos, if not be right there with NBC & CBS.

NBC's opening game of Notre Dame football did less than half the numbers ABC grabbed, hovering around a 1.0 rating in its three demographic categories.

Year-to-year, ABC was up 1.9 million viewers and 42% in the A18-49 ratings, from its first Saturday night game. NBC was down about 800,000 in total viewers, but lost 45% in the A18-49 demographic.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	7.90 million	2.6	2.7	2.7
CBS	3.10 million	0.3	0.5	0.7
CW	0.00 million	0.0	0.0	0.0
FOX	1.10 million	0.2	0.3	0.4
NBC	3.80 million	0.8	1.1	1.3

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	College Football	7.90	2.6	2.7	2.7
8:00	CBS	Hawaii Five-O [R]	2.70	0.2	0.3	0.5
9:00	CBS	48 Hours [R]	2.70	0.3	0.5	0.6
10:00	CBS	48 Hours [R]	3.80	0.3	0.6	0.9
8:00	FOX	Bullseye [R]	1.10	0.2	0.3	0.4
9:00	FOX	Home Free [R]	1.00	0.2	0.3	0.4
8:00	NBC	Notre Dame Football	3.80	0.8	1.1	1.3

* - in millions