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What will be the ratings for SNL's premiere with Micheal Phelps?

Settled as 6 to less than 8

Although it was suggested that new numbers would be released on Thursday, there has been no indication of that. Settling with the weekend's numbers of 7.6
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/09/14/saturday-night-live-scores-its-highest-season-premiere-overnight-ratings-since-2001/5101

Background:

SNL is jumping on the Micheal Phelps bandwagon as they invite him to host their premiere episode on September 13. The golden boy will make his acting debut and be reunited with Lil Wayne, one of his artists of choice, pre-race. SNL was doing relatively well in the ratings last spring as the primary race heated up and should enjoy the current Presidential race with plenty of news for satirical fodder. What will the ratings be for their first episode of the season?

Best ratings ever: 16.0 (October 13, 1979). Steve Martin / Blondie
Best ratings last year: 6 (Season finale)


Settlement details: Nielson EDI

 
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Settled

Less than 4
1%
4 to less than 6
4%
6 to less than 8
10%
8 to less than 10
14%
10 to less than 16
66%
16 or more
5%
Activity: H$15,550
Settled as 6 to less than 8 on Fri 19th Sep 4:50am PDT

Suspend date: Sat 13th Sep 8pm PDT Settlement date: Fri 19th Sep 4:50am PDTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Sat 13th Sep 8pm PDT have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled

Initial likelihoods: Less than 4: 5%, 4 to less than 6: 10%, 6 to less than 8 : 30%, 8 to less than 10 : 30%, 10 to less than 16 : 20%, 16 or more: 5%

Action history:

Created Sat 30th Aug 10:30am PDT by jenniandboys[Admin]
Suspended Sat 13th Sep 8pm PDT : Suspend date reached
Settlement requested Thu 18th Sep 7:24pm PDT by dieseldog: SNL's 7.4 rating (meaning it was watched by 7.4 percent of households in measured Nielsen markets) was 64 percent higher than its year-ago season premiere

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/09/snl-ratings-fri.html


Saturday Night Live this weekend delivered its best premiere ratings in seven years, netting a 7.4 household rating

http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-News-Blog/Todays-News/Ratings-Saturday-Night/800046681
Settled as '6 to less than 8 ' Fri 19th Sep 4:50am PDT by jenniandboys[Admin]: Although it was suggested that new numbers would be released on Thursday, there has been no indication of that. Settling with the weekend's numbers of 7.6
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/09/14/saturday-night-live-scores-its-highest-season-premiere-overnight-ratings-since-2001/5101

Suspend date: Sat 13th Sep 8pm PDT Settlement date: Fri 19th Sep 4:50am PDTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Sat 13th Sep 8pm PDT have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
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Predictions (93)

93 predictions

11 weeks ago
bayoubear[Admin] predicted 8 to less than 10 (H$100 at 13%)
11 weeks ago
bayoubear[Admin] predicted 6 to less than 8 (H$100 at 9%)
11 weeks ago
yobaby predicted 8 to less than 10 (H$50 at 12%)
11 weeks ago
101airborne predicted 8 to less than 10 (H$100 at 13%)
11 weeks ago
101airborne predicted 4 to less than 6 (H$100 at 4%)
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Comments (8)

First it asks what the ratings are then the answers refer to how many people will watch the show.
posted 13 weeks ago
Good point, I've removed the "million"s from the option text. Thanks for the flag.
posted 13 weeks ago
Cmon with the results already! ;p
posted 11 weeks ago
  4 dieseldog
@101airborne..i have a good source who told me the regular admin for entertainment is on a break. i think admin ryan is filling in for her. i suggest you do a fly over and drop a bomb of whoop-a** on him :O) j/k j/k ryan is a good guy (don't tell him i said that) i'm sure he'll settle as soon as he gets the info.
posted 11 weeks ago
"i suggest you do a fly over and drop a bomb of whoop-a** on him"... Im Army. Thats Air Force... Dont talk to me anymore! ;/

j/k ;p
posted 11 weeks ago
  6 dieseldog
@101airborne..the army don't have planes? how do you get "airborne? :)
posted 11 weeks ago
@DoubleD: lol! I saw bomb and immediately thought "Air Force". I was tired.... But just imagine the fear in Ryan's eyes as he watches me slowly float towards him with the parachute yelling "Where's my settlement?!".
posted 10 weeks ago
@101 - Well Ryan is off Entertainment, so you'd have to come for me instead! For some reason the final ratings from SNL aren't going to be released until tomorrow... So you'll have to give it one more day. Hopefully, you can last that long without the need to parachute onto my house :)
posted 10 weeks ago

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