Final Broadcast Ratings: September 2, 2017

ABC dominates the first Saturday night of September, with the premiere of Saturday Night College Football. The primetime game commanded 12.3 million viewers and posted a 3.9 rating in Adults 18-49. That is well and above last year's game, which drew under 8 million total viewers and a 2.5 demographic rating.

FOX also premiered its Saturday night college season, but to far worse results. THE football game averaged 1.8 million viewers and just a 0.5 demo rating. That is on par with last year's opener.

CBS closed out the season foR the low rated game show, CANDY CRUSH. The two-hour program collected just 1.2 million viewers and averaged  0.3 rating in Adults 18-49.

NBC was encore on the night, but topped CBS and was near equal to FOX, on the night.

Final L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	12.30 million	3.1	3.8	4.3
CBS	1.50 million	0.2	0.3	0.3
CW	0.00 million	0.0	0.0	0.0
FOX	1.80 million	0.4	0.5	0.6
NBC	2.80 million	0.2	0.4	0.6

Time	Net	Program	P2*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
8:00	ABC	Football Pregame	7.40	1.6	2.0	2.4
8:10	ABC	Saturday Night College Football	12.34	3.2	3.9	4.4
8:00	CBS	Candy Crush	1.28	0.2	0.2	0.3
9:00	CBS	Candy Crush (SF)	1.17	0.2	0.3	0.3
10:00	CBS	48 Hours	1.96	0.1	0.3	0.4
7:30	FOX	Fox College Football	1.79	0.4	0.5	0.6
8:00	NBC	America's Got Talent [R]	2.61	0.2	0.4	0.6
10:00	NBC	Dateline Mystery	3.15	0.2	0.5	0.7

* - viewers in millions