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Fast National ratings for Friday, Jan. 1, 2010College football dominated Friday's ratings, with the Rose Bowl on ABC scoring big numbers in the afternoon and FOX winning primetime with its coverage of the Sugar Bowl.
FOX led the night's ratings with 14.35 million viewers and a 7.8 rating/13 share in households. Helped by the Rose Bowl, ABC finished second with 7.2 million viewers and a 4.3/7. CBS (4.7 million, 3.1/5) came in third. NBC (3.4 million, 2.2/4) finished fourth, followed by The CW (1.2 million, 0.8/1).
In the adults 18-49 demographic, FOX's 4.6 rating was far and away the night's best. ABC (2.1) was the only other network to break the 2.0 barrier. CBS averaged 1.0, NBC 0.9 and The CW 0.5.
New Year's night hour by hour:
8 p.m.
ABC: Rose Bowl - Ohio State-Oregon (19.95 million viewers, 10.8/18 households)/"Better Off Ted" (5.6 million, 3.4/6)
FOX: Sugar Bowl pre-game (5.9 million, 3.3/5)/Sugar Bowl - Florida-Cincinnati (15.95 million, 8.4/14)
CBS: "Ghost Whisperer" rerun (4.5 million, 3.0/5)
NBC: "The Biggest Loser" rerun (3.1 million, 2.0/3)
The CW: "Smallville" rerun (1.35 million, 0.9/1)
18-49 leader: Rose Bowl (5.8)
9 p.m.
FOX: Sugar Bowl (17.9 million, 9.7/16)
CBS: "Medium" rerun (4.7 million, 3.1/5)
NBC: "The Biggest Loser" rerun (3.6 million, 2.3/4)
ABC: "Scrubs" (3.5 million, 2.3/4)/"Better Off Ted" rerun (2.7 million, 1.8/3)
The CW: "Smallville" rerun (1.1 million, 0.8/1)
18-49 leader: Sugar Bowl (5.7)
10 p.m.
FOX: Sugar Bowl (14.2 million, 7.8/13)
ABC: "20/20" (5.6 million, 3.7/6)
CBS: "Numb3rs" rerun (4.9 million, 3.2/6)
NBC: "The Jay Leno Show" rerun (3.4 million, 2.2/4)
18-49 leader: Sugar Bowl (4.7)
Ratings information includes live and same-day DVR viewing. All numbers are preliminary and subject to change, especially in the case of live telecasts. Source: The Nielsen Company.
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Je suis an idiot.
leno reruns are doing great. maybe nbc should have him on 2 to 3 hours a night or just can every show and have a 24/7 leno network
While I figured that all the Rose Bowl watchers would just flip over to the Sugar Bowl, I was still hoping that we could still see some somewhat decent ratings for the Ted/Scrubs burnoff episodes. Though Ted's was (sadly) a spike from last week's ratings.
Je suis an idiot.
The sugar bowl was a snoozer.
Love that NBC tanked yet again and seriously, get rid of Leno!
Look at the dropoff from the Rose Bowl to better off Ted. Note to ABC, the show stinks, take it off the air.
Leno is the only good thing about poor NBC.
The idea of Leno was that even though he'd get killed with first run dramas, that he'd clean up during re-runs. Well, as it turns out, he can't even win during re-runs, especially if he's OFF during re-runs. What a putz.
Just shut up Tim. The ratings for "Better off Ted" are bad because the majority of people who watch TV are stupid and like dancing & singing competitions more than they like creative and well written comedies. ABC is doing a great thing by keeping THE BEST SHOW ON TV - Better off Ted - on. I' am so sorry that your brain doesn't work quickly enough for you to understand the humour, but please let the rest of us, more highly functioning people, have something great on TV to watch.