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Had a hard time finding ratings for Friday, but I did come across these national ratings:

There were a lot of Friday cable shows with 0.4 and 0.5 adults 18-49 ratings, ESPN’s College Football telecast was the only one to pop up above the pack with a 1.0 rating.

ESPN College Football (8pm, 200 minutes)
- 2.676 million viewers
- 1.7/3 HH
- 1.0/4 A18-49

I'm not well versed in TV ratings jargon, but I think we did good in the demographic that matters for advertisers. Never bad when 2.6 million people see our stadium.

I'd be very interested in knowing how the game did locally. If anyone can provide that info or add more informed commentary to disect the numbers above I'd appreciate it.

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well...the Hawaii Bowl had a 1.97 TV rating...how does that compare?

By ratings, it is very close, with the Hawaii Bowl slightly higher. I expect that in pure numbers of eyes, it was higher than the number at the Hawaii Bowl because the number of people watching TV on Christmas Eve is smaller.

More people watched the bowl. The rating number is 1 percent of total households with TVs...something like 1.16 million per point.

The second number is the share of TVs that are actually on, so 3 percent of people who were watching TV in that time slot were watching SMU-TCU.

Great post - thanks for the info.

RE Tycoon wrote:I'd be very interested in knowing how the game did locally. If anyone can provide that info or add more informed commentary to disect the numbers above I'd appreciate it.

someone inquired about that info on the unclebarky blog. he should be posting numbers shortly.

DFW numbers:
okay, he just posted this (thanks for whoever asked him to do it - RE Tycoon?):

"Let's swing over to Friday, where ESPN's TCU-SMU game on the Ponys' home field averaged 221,622 viewers overall.

The 8 to 9 p.m. portion of TCU-SMU also beat both Good Guys and CSI: NY.

In the 18-to-49-year-old barometer, Good Guys barely came up for air with 6,581 viewers compared to league-leading TCU-SMU's 105,299 from 8 to 9 p.m. That placed it seventh in the broadcast network rankings alone"

http://www.unclebarky.com/dfw.html

Pretty strong ratings, I'd say.
Good to know people around the area were tuned in and interested.

Since I was at the game I recorded Good Guys. I like that show and it is filmed in Dallas

smupony94 wrote:Since I was at the game I recorded Good Guys. I like that show and it is filmed in Dallas

I like it too(havent had time to watch Friday's yet), but that show and another Dallas-shot show Lone Star, are struggling in the ratings. Both seem like a long shot to get renewed.

So a lot of people saw the game.
Announcers talked up SMU and June Jones.
Fans were there, wore red, were loud ... and they stayed for the whole game.
Not a bad night of exposure for the Ponies!