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Alabama-Texas TV Ratings Winner

Posted by srr50 on January 9th, 2010 under Football

After Thursday night’s BCS championship game between Alabama and Texas, the Longhorns have now played in the two highest-rated games in BCS Championship history.

‘Bama’s 37-21 win over the Horns drew over 30 million viewers to ABC’s telecast last Thursday night.


The Alabama-Texas BCS Championship game is the most viewed sporting event on any network since last year’s Super Bowl.

The game pulled a 17.2 final rating and 30.8 million viewers on ABC, giving that network its its highest rated Thursday night since 1995.

It is only the second BCS game to pass the 30 million viewer threshold, behind the 2006 Texas win over USC.


The Texas-USC contest remains the highest-rated BCS Championship game with over 35,600,000 viewers.

Aside from the NFL and the Olympics, the two BCS games involving Texas are the two most-viewed sporting events of any kind over the last five years.

Thursday’s contest tops every single regular season NFL game during the 2009-10 season — including Brett Favre’s return to Lambeau Field (29.8 mil).

Obviously the two teams involved in the game delivered some huge numbers in regional markets.

ALABAMA
Birmingham — 67.4% of all television-equipped households were tuned into the game.

Nashville — 33.4%
Knoxville — 31.7%
Atlanta — 29,9%

TEXAS
Austin — 47.7% virtually the same percentage of TV’s that were tuned in to the 2006 Texas-USC game.

San Antonio — 37.2% compared to 36.8% in 2006
Dallas — 31.3% compared to 34.6% in 2006
Houston — 29.7% compared to 36.8% in 2006

The lowest-rated championship game during the BCS Era?


USC’s 55-19 thrashing of OU in 2005 is the least-viewed BCS Championship game with 21.4 million viewers.

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11 Responses

  1. Gaylon Krizak said:

    January 9th, 2010 at 2:56 pm

    Imagine the ratings if Tech had been in it!

    Love,
    Tim

  2. pleaseplaykindle said:

    January 9th, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    lol @ gaylon

    Question: How do they measure who’s watching what?

  3. get off my fuckin' back old lady-I'm not helping ya said:

    January 9th, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    Tech can be ratings GOLD!!

  4. get off my fuckin' back old lady-I'm not helping ya said:

    January 9th, 2010 at 3:59 pm

    Since I can’t watch the SB44 these games were just extra special & memorable.

  5. srr50 said:

    January 9th, 2010 at 6:51 pm

    Question: How do they measure who’s watching what?

    Nielsen gets its numbers from two sources. In the major markets (Austin included), there are over 20,000 homes with in-house metering system that capture detailed information about who is watching what. This information is cross-checked daily. In addition, during “sweeps” (the period where the networks set their advertising rates) they still use paper diaries in several hundred thousand homes.

    Also it is expected that by this summer, Nielsen will be tracking TV/Web use in about 8,000 of the metered homes to give advertisers cross-platform measurements overnight as well.

  6. FiesoleHorn said:

    January 9th, 2010 at 7:04 pm

    Wonder what the 2nd half rating was. A few make-goods due, perhaps, for what was damn nearly the best comeback ever.

  7. srr50 said:

    January 9th, 2010 at 7:10 pm

    The second hour of the telecast was the peak for ratings (makes sense since that would be the second quarter) and then fell back — but not too far.

  8. BEHorn said:

    January 9th, 2010 at 10:37 pm

    Fiesole – doubt there’s any make-goods due from a broadcast that pulled a 17.2.

  9. Tucker Douglas said:

    January 10th, 2010 at 7:12 am

    Who are all these idiots not watching? That’s so weird to me.

    hook’em

  10. HenryJames said:

    January 10th, 2010 at 7:56 am

    Some people were probably rewatching the Alamo Bowl.

  11. Mysterious Package said:

    January 10th, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    Half of Austin does not even know we have a football team. Not suprised one bit, some people just have other things to do unlike in Birmingham where color tv is still a new concept

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