Saturday TV Ratings 9/16/23: 48 Hours Returns Down, Pittsburgh/West Virginia College Football Game on ABC Leads (UPDATED)

Ratings Analysis: ABC led the way on Saturday night with its 'Pittsburgh v. West Virginia' college football game (0.56). Fox could only manage half of what the alphabet network put up with its 'TCU v. Houston' match-up (0.28). NBC came very close to Fox with its 'Syracuse v. Purdue' game (0.26). On CBS, a rerun of 'NCIS' (0.18) led into the premiere of '48 Hours' (0.22/0.19). The newsmagazine program was on the lower-end of its usual delivery but built on its lead-in nevertheless. 'Great Chocolate Showdown' (0.05, +0.01) inched up on the CW but lost out to one of the two 'Masters of Illusion' repeats (0.06/0.05) that aired after it.

Finals Update: 'College Football: Pittsburgh v. WV' (+0.2), 'College Football: Syracuse v. Purdue' (+0.1), and the 9 PM repeat of 'Masters of Illusion' (+0.1) adjusted up.

Time	Show	18-49 Rating	18-49 Share	Viewers (mil)	Network
8 PM	College Football: Pittsburgh v. WV	0.56	6	2.41	ABC
	College Football: TCU v. Houston	0.28	3	1.20	Fox
	College Football: Syracuse v. Purdue	0.26	3	1.25	NBC
	NCIS (R)	0.18	2	1.70	CBS
	Great Chocolate Showdown	0.05	1	0.35	The CW
9 PM	48 Hours (P)	0.22	2	1.94	CBS
	Masters of Illusion (R)	0.06	0	0.212	The CW
9:30 PM	Masters of Illusion (R)	0.05	0	0.21	The CW
10 PM	48 Hours	0.19	2	2.09	CBS