Saturday (9/29/18) Primetime Ratings

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Coors Field (Colorado Boulders), WFL Saturday Night Football (ROD Sports) (ROD-TV) (Channel 5)

These are the primetime ratings for the 25th night of the 2018-19 NITRO Television regular season on Saturday September 29, 2018.

Network Rankings

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Bridget Satterlee (Milwaukee Millers), WFL Saturday Night Football (ROD-TV) (Channel 5)

Network Season Rankings

1. ICE - 14 wins (71 points)

2. ROD - 6 wins (46 points)

3. NBC - 5 wins (33 points)

ROD USES ICE'S TOP ROOKIE TO GIVE THEM A TIGHT VICTORY

In one of the tighter races to first so far this season where ROD edged ICE thanks to ROD having Bridget Satterlee on in primetime on their network. Bridget Satterlee has started this new season as the hottest rookie on television as she is just like Allison Shields in her rookie season where every time she popped up on television the ratings went through the roof.

ROD averaged 92.42 million viewers to ICE's 91.27 million viewers and the difference was Saturday Night Football which got over 145 million although because the game was a blowout it dipped every hour through the finish but still maintained over 100 million viewers which was enough to put ICE away although ICE was strong throughout and ROD slipped enough in some hours to make this a close battle.

For the WFL this is on the high end for their games on a Saturday night so this could be one of the bigger ratings of the season for the primetime package.

The Milwaukee Millers made easy work in their first road game of the season against the Colorado Boulders in Denver for the Boulders home opener on Saturday Night Football over on ROD beating the Boulders 30-5 so they literally held the Boulders to just 5 points. Milwaukee's defense is ferocious as Bridget Satterlee is all over the field as she got 13 tackles in this game, 4 tackles for a loss, 2.5 sacks which produced a safety in this game, and two turnovers one via an interception and the other a forced fumble. Bridget's partner Nancy Nery who plays safety got 9 tackles in this game herself, 2 tackles for a loss, 1 sack, and one interception that was returned for a touchdown. Jelena Mariucci who plays quarterback on the Millers threw for 3 touchdowns in this game and over 300 yards passing so a much better showing from Jelena this week compared to last week. Sasha Luss' team looked real good as she's off to a 2-0 start in her head coaching career. Colorado drops to a dangerous 0-2 mark after a close game in Miami last weekend.

Colorado did not do well at all in this game but NBC's Tanya Mityushina was the standout on defense as she had 12 tackles in this game and a sack so maybe Milwaukee can trade for her and add to this defense but you might be saying why do you suggest that trade option?

Well Bridget Satterlee probably needs a new sidekick as she got into it with her bestie Natalie Ceretti on Saturday night. All of the Milwaukee Millers players including their coach Sasha Luss actually room together up in Toronto so they're around each other a lot so Bridget rooms with Sasha, Nancy, Natalie, and Jelena. Sasha told the media after the game that her and Natalie have been getting into it ever since Natalie defended Vika Bronova in an exchange that nobody knew about backstage last night. Sasha says that Bridget feels like Natalie betrayed her and the two on the flight to Denver right after the live tapings seem to had been intense. She said the two didn't talk at all today but she's glad the two did their jobs and didn't allow their personal engagement with each other to affect the team's play on the field this evening.

There was a moment in this game where Natalie dropped an interception and Bridget chewed her out for it saying, "CATCH THE BALL BITCH! I GOTTA CARRY YOUR ASS EVERY FUCKING GAME!" Natalie was frustrated and punch the Gatorade Cooler went she went to the sidelines.

Natalie said after the game that she was also frustrated because the crowd on Saturday night was like a college crowd full of drunk people wanting to have a good time on a Saturday night. They were teasing Natalie about dropping the pick and saying she lost her best friend like the Jay-Z song December 4th. The crowd had plenty of fun coming after Bridget too but that was not a good idea as it made Bridget play angry the entire evening as Sasha noticed a more intense version of Bridget as she tackling violently and even injured a couple of players. One of the players who's not a NITRO actor seemed to have suffered a serious injury during the game where they broke their shoulder after the way Bridget stomped on it. The crowd wanted Bridget thrown out of the game for that dirty play. Kimberly Hardin did not return to the game after a hard hit from Bridget. Kimberly Hardin said Bridget is a mean girl and that she's glad she doesn't work for ICE right now because she'd punch her.

Sasha told Natalie that if she wanted to she would pay for Natalie to sit in a hotel for the next couple of nights until she could figure out how to calm Bridget down or find a better living situation for her.

If things don't improve between Natalie and Bridget then Natalie might get traded to a different studio in the next couple of weeks and for Milwaukee that would mean a different team as well which is why we suggested ICE trading for Tanya Mityushina or Milwaukee getting another player who's already in the studio to cover her spot on defense as Natalie has played pretty good defense on the team thus far in the first two weeks of the season despite that dropped interception which really wasn't that big of a deal but Bridget was just being an asshole.

Bridget so far hasn't been getting along with some of studiomates and that's a point of concern for Co-CEO Paige Van Buren and the other two CEOs that are coming like Kyla Ray and Kya Summers because it might be costing ICE certain actors and now Milwaukee solid players.

Sasha did say the good thing is that Bridget has been getting closer to Nancy Nery so she thinks things are good between her and Nancy. Plus Nancy has publicly been going against Vika Bronova and anybody who stands besides her since this beef started.

Frankie Shaw (The ICE Phederation), The Irish Punk (Warner Bros. Pictures) (ICE-TV) (Channel 7)

HOW IT WENT DOWN

Let's breakdown really quickly how it went between ROD and ICE in this ratings race so for ROD after the football game the ratings dropped like they always do as Wheel of Fortune Saturdays had its highest ratings of the season with 70 million viewers that gave a cushion to their late night star Sheila Carter which had 80.92 million viewers and that was just short of Liam Spencer's premiere last night on NBC which had 81.31 million viewers the night before. That was much higher than the week before giving a good lead-in to Baywatch which kept the ratings over 70 million viewers for ROD before the ratings dropped. ROD's Porn Hour kept the ratings over 60 million viewers and that was huge for ROD because had ROD's Porn Hour bled more then ICE would've won the battle.

ICE had a nice well rounded night as they had their big movie premiere of the 2014 comedy hit The Irish Punk from Warner Bros. Pictures starring Frankie Shaw. This was the first big box office smash hit from 2014 to premiere on NITRO Television not only this season but period so it was nice to know how the hits would perform when they hit NITRO. The Irish Punk would've premiered a few years ago if NITRO wasn't shutdown so viewers had to wait a few years to see the movie on NITRO Television as HBO had the premium rights to the movie. ICE says they'll start burning off their 2014 hits on NITRO Television this season on certain movie nights throughout the season.

The Irish Punk premiered pretty nicely getting 85 million viewers against really stiff competition and with their TV movies performing well in repeats it should be interesting to see the way The Irish Punk does in its secondary airings as we got 40 million viewers from the third airing of Secret Auntie earlier this afternoon on ICE.

Bridget Satterlee will be back in primetime next Sunday for the world broadcast premiere of The Bad News Bears vs. Hooters Chicks which was another huge comedy hit at the box office back in 2014.

For the rest of ICE we had Vegas Showgirls up a little bit to 117 million viewers for their Milwaukee auditions then later in the night we had the season premiere of Deborah Jo Wood's hit variety show KFC Theater which had a little under 100 million viewers which is under where Diamond Girls usually is in this slot but it was still enough to win the slot against Sheila Carter/Baywatch and NBC Stars After Dark.

In the 3am porn battle ICE won again with Neta's Pussy in 4K which has won that battle every week as ICE does say they got plans to do more with that hour to get the ratings up even higher.

NBC brought up the rear as this was a hard night for them as every time ROD wins a night that isn't Monday nights it's tough for them because they need those points and this was not a good look for them to be losing the night after winning the daytime battle earlier.

Xtina Grimmie Hour always gives them a chance starting out the night and War Update did okay but still bled enough to not be competitive as the rest of the night was a disaster but not as bad as last week so they did do a nice job in getting the ratings up. Killer Love was burned off late on Saturday so it looks like that show is done eventually. It's hard for NBC because competition is pretty weird on Saturday where there's some huge hits surrounded around okay players. NBC might have to look for programming that can takeover the weaker slots on the network. It will be interesting for them once Saturday Night Football's season ends in January if ROD will be much weaker and NBC can get stronger. There's been some talk that NBC President Erinn Hayes wants Saturdays to be their third formal dress code night of the week so they might be doing live tapings starting in February but we don't know for sure because NBC themselves never confirmed that to be the case.


Tomorrow night it's another WFL Sunday as Malena Morgan and the Tampa Sol are in primetime on Sunday Night Football against Chase Carter and the Dallas Cowgirls on NBC for the Cowgirl's home opener down in Big D. ICE will have the New Girls in Town Pageant and their first edition of Late Night Football of the season and ROD rolls out another week of their successful drama trio of Enough Is Enough, Baywatch, and Pretty Thieves going into their Late Night Football Game as well.

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ROD was lucky this week he had a huge star featured on Saturday Night Football this week in Bridget Satterlee as most of those Saturday Night Football probably won't rate this high.

Bridget Satterlee has proven early in her ratings run that she can bring in the ratings and it helps because Bridget is a polarizing character a lot of people hate her ass but that also makes people want to watch and pay attention to her. Now she's got this new beef with Natalie Ceretti and this one surprises me because Natalie is not a mean girl so I feel bad for her. Natalie will most definitely get traded from ICE and now Milwaukee will have to scramble to replace her services on that team.

This race was really close but it took a lot for ROD to win but luckily they also have Sheila Carter in this lineup and ROD was smart to keep Sheila Carter away from Vegas Showgirls and putting Baywatch right behind it.

ICE did really nicely with The Irish Punk and after seeing the way the TV movies performed I'm curious to see how this repeats as well. Debby Jo's Wood program did pretty well too as I can't expect that to rate as well as Diamond Girls does in the same slot.

I thought War Update would do slightly better for NBC but they did improve the night greatly from last week. I'm sure they're still trying to figure out their Saturday nights as well behind Xtina Grimmie Hour.

I think all of the networks need to figure out a way to get the ratings up for their porn shows that's a huge difference too.

[rodshooter]

I knew coming into tonight that Bridget Satterlee would elevate my ratings and I had a pretty good shot at winning the night and I'm glad as narrow as the victory was that I was still able to top ICE. This is one of the few Saturday Night Football matchups that are gonna rate this highly for me.

Sheila Carter will rate higher than this when the crossover I have planned with ICE's All My Children and Who Wanted Nichole Dead? starts up in November for sweeps.

I will work on the porn show too and try to elevate that quite a bit.

[angrygrandpaforever]

Scott Clifton: Steffy Aly should had killed you so i don't has to look at that Ugly Face anymore..
Scott Clifton: But then You killed her claiming that it was in Self-Defense...
Scott Clifton: And we all know it wasn't in self-defense
Scott Clifton: That's why I am getting Sole Custody of Kelly So you won't kill her like you did with Aly....

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Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (Daytime President): OH MY FUCKING GOD! Why the fuck you keep bringing up Aly that shit was years ago and that was self-defense you asshole....

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (Daytime President): Why would I kill my own daughter? You don't make any fucking sense...

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood (Daytime President): What stupid moron at NBC scheduled your piece of shit show against mines on Friday nights? I had like 105 million viewers and you almost lost to Sheila Carter. You have no chance in hell of winning this battle.

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I think it's entirely possible The Irish Punk would've reached more than 90 million viewers if it wasn't for the competition so I'm definitely interested in how the replays do as it will air again on Thursday Night and Saturday Afternoon next weekend in the same slot that Secret Auntie was in this past week. I think I actually chose the wrong weekend to premiere The Irish Punk because the Milwaukee Millers was on this week and the game next Saturday will be lighter in the ratings.

Vegas Showgirls continues to be steady during these auditions and Debby Jo's KFC Theater had a nice start to her season, very pleased with those numbers.

I might be doing something different with Neta in 4K. Romeo Miller will have his Rap City shows start in the 2am timeslot as those will play the whole month until Vegas Showgirls After Dark returns in November.

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Strawberry Shields: We're interrupting the whole Liam vs. Steffy battle next week as DJ Becky is airing!

Kay Shields: DJ Becky airs next week so nobody's watching whack ass Liam Spencer or whack ass Steffy Forrester.

[beermoney]

Bridget Satterlee really bought up the ratings for ROD and Saturday Night Football which helped ROD win the night over ICE who actually had a solid night from top to bottom with The Irish Punk doing nicely and their reality/variety shows doing well after that as well

NBC didn't have a terrible night but they were out of the loop because their late night lineup was lacking