Three 'new' broadcast series, however, don't fare so well on a night when TV usage is down by double digits.
celebrated its 50th anniversary on the network where it began, ABC — and got a big ratings bump in the process. A trio of drama premieres on other networks, however, turned in soft showings on the opening night of the 2020-21 TV season.
A simulcast of the game between the Las Vegas Raiders — the first in their new home — and New Orleans Saints on ABC and ESPN dominated primetime Monday. The game drew a combined 15.44 million viewers and a 4.7 rating among adults 18-49 in the final same-day numbers, way up from both last week and the same week of the NFL season in 2019 . The 15.44 million viewers was the biggest audience forsince 15.98 million people watched the Nov.
The audience was fairly evenly split between the two channels: ABC had 7.98 million viewers to 7.45 million for ESPN. The latter, however, had a younger-skewing crowd, posting a 2.7 rating in adults 18-49 and 2.1 among adults 18-34, vs. 2.0 and 1.2 for ABC. The opening returns for three series premieres — all of them placeholders as production on broadcast network shows is still in the early stages — weren't very promising. Fox's, originally slated for a summer debut, scored a 0.5 among adults 18-49 and 3.03 million viewers. So did the broadcast debut of Spectrum Originals'Another Spectrum show making the leap to an over-the-air network,, put up soft numbers for CBS: just a 0.3 in the demo 1.58 million viewers.
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