Spotted Ratings, Weekend Roundup 9/7-9/8/12

WHAT MATTERS:

• The ratings for the biyearly "Stand Up to Cancer" simulcast are not counted in any averages, though the big four had a combined 2.1 18-49 rating in the preliminaries. America's Next Top Model had a pretty nice spike as the only alternative option on the broadcasters. I don't want to make too much of it, but this kinda helps to illustrate why the CW is premiering a couple of their new shows against big-four debate simulcasts later in the fall. We'll see if the extra sampling helps Top Model moving forward.

• Saturday brought some big redemption for week two of the new CFB on Fox, which posted nearly three times the rating of its week-ago 0.6 debut thanks to a good Nebraska/UCLA game and no competing action on ABC. The importance of the "game quality" in college football is on display in that comparison, as the game only started three tenths higher than last week's (1.1 vs. 0.8 in the 8:00 half-hour). It beat the Washington/LSU rout on ESPN (1.0) but still narrowly lost the primetime football race to Georgia/Missouri on ESPN2 (1.7).

FRIDAY 9/7/12 FULL TABLE:

	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Avg	Rank
ABC Stand Up to Cancer	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
20/20 (SR)	5.32	1.2
20/20 (SR)	4.81	1.3
CBS Stand Up to Cancer	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
CSI: NY (SR)	3.84	0.6
Blue Bloods (SR)	4.81	0.6
NBC Stand Up to Cancer	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Grimm 2012 (R)	1.73	0.4
Dateline Fri (SR)	3.79	0.9
Fox Stand Up to Cancer	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Bones (SR)	2.03	0.5
America's Next Top Model Fall	1.49	0.6	+50%	n/a	+50%	1/3
Nikita (SR)	0.54	0.2

SATURDAY 9/8/12 FULL TABLE:

	Viewers	A18-49	Last	LeLa	Avg	Rank
NASCAR Countdown	3.8	1.0	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1
NASCAR Rain Delay	4.1	1.1	n/a	n/a	n/a	1/1
NASCAR	5.1	1.4	-7%	-27%	-20%	9/9
Hawaii Five-0 (SR)	1.9	0.3
NCIS: Los Angeles (SR)	2.1	0.3
48 Hours Mystery (SR)	2.9	0.6
America's Got Talent (R)	2.0	0.5
Law and Order: SVU (SR)	2.4	0.5
Law and Order: SVU (SR)	3.9	0.7
CFB on Fox	4.6	1.6	+167%	n/a	+167%	1/2

KEY (click to expand)

Viewers - The total number of viewers (age 2+, in millions) that watched the program.
A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.
Last - A18-49 percent difference from previous episode.
LeLa - A18-49 percent difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.
Avg - A18-49 percent difference from the show's average demo for previous original episodes this season.
Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes that have aired so far this season.

(R) - Repeat.
(SR) - Summer repeat. (for shows not currently in season)

Much more detail on these numbers at the New Daily Spotted Ratings page.

More Spotted Ratings in the Index.