Saturday Final Nationals: NCAA Tournament on CBS and TBS Leads Prime Time

The second round of the “NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball Tournament” was the top TV attraction on Saturday night. CBS led overall in prime time with St. Mary’s (Calif.) versus Arizona. TBS was the night’s top cable network (and the No. 2 network of all of television) with the tournament doubleheader of Middle Tennessee State vs. Butler and Iowa State vs. Purdue.

TNT was close behind TBS with its doubleheader of Xavier vs. Florida State and Virginia vs. Florida.

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* AFF = Number of affiliates (stations) airing the program
* CVG = percent of coverage in U.S.
	Saturday, March 18, 2017
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.0/2	1625	0.4/2	0.4/2	0.5/2
8:00	NBA Countdown (s)	268	93	1.0/2	1494	0.2/1	0.3/1	0.4/1
8:29	NBA Saturday Primetime Cleveland @ L.A. Clippers	268	93	1.0/2	1647	0.4/2	0.5/2	0.5/2
10:56	NBA Saturday Primetime Post Game			1.1/2	1771	0.4/2	0.5/2	0.6/2
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			3.6/7	6030		1.8/8	2.2/8
7:56	College Basketball Bridge (s)	252	93	3.7/8	6206	1.5/9	1.9/9	2.2/9
8:13	NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball Second Round St. Mary’s (Calif.) vs. Arizona (s)	252	93	3.8/8	6507	1.6/9	2.0/8	2.4/8
10:31	College Basketball Post Gun (s)			2.6/5	4384	1.0/6	1.3/5	1.6/5
10:34	48 Hours (thru 11:34)	255	93	2.6/6	4066	0.5/3	0.8/4	1.1/4
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.5/3	2411	0.3/2	0.5/2	0.7/2
8:00	Movie Fast Five (2009)	241	91	1.5/3	2411	0.3/2	0.5/2	0.7/2
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-10	Network Average			0.5/1	810		0.3/1	0.3/1
7:00	Monster Energy Supercross Indianapolis (s) (thru 10:10)	255	93	0.5/1	813	0.1/1	0.3/1	0.3/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.5/1	944		0.4/2
7:00	Crónicas de Sábado			0.8/2	1309		0.5/2
8:00	Como Dice el Dicho (p)			0.5/1	898		0.3/1
9:00	Liga MX Leon vs. Toluca (thru 11:00)			0.5/1	962		0.4/2
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.4/1	633		0.2/1
6:02	Cine El Señor Doctor (1965)			0.3/1	604		0.2/1
8:32	Cine Ni un paso atrás (2012) (thru 11:02)			0.3/1	577		0.2/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average (preliminary)			0.3/1	663	0.3/1	0.3/1
8:00	Cine The Lorax (2012) (preliminary)			0.3/1	655	0.2/1	0.2/1
8:30	Cine Thor (2011) (preliminary)			0.3/1	544	0.2/1	0.2/1
9:00	Cine Thor (2011) (preliminary)			0.3/1	621	0.2/1	0.2/1
10:00	Cine Lord of War (2005) (preliminary)			0.4/1	767	0.3/2	0.3/1

Note: All of this date’s Telemundo data are based on preliminary figures.

Sub-Demo Breakdowns – Saturday 3/18/17

For the entire week of March 6-12, 2017 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is down -5 percent in viewership (0.837 million vs. 0.880 million) and down -2 percent among Adults 18-49 (536,000 vs. 545,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down -24 percent in total viewership (0.837 million vs. 1.103 million) and down -15 percent among Adults 18-49 (536,000 vs. 633,000) from the same week one year ago (March 21-27, 2016). (https://programmingins.wpengine.com/?p=15752)

	PROGRAM	HH	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
8:00	Dragon Ball Super	0.50	804	0.29	376
8:30	Bob’s Burgers (r)	0.44	693	0.27	344
9:00	Rick & Morty (r)	0.46	668	0.30	382
9:30	Rick & Morty (r)	0.53	761	0.37	477
10:00	Family Guy (r)	0.67	984	0.48	612
10:30	Family Guy (r)	0.83	1275	0.65	834

TOONAMI – SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2017

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
11:00	Samurai Jack	1300	0.68	871
11:30	Dragon Ball Super	1054	0.52	666
12:00a	Sand Whale and Me	893	0.45	574
12:05a	Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters	973	0.48	616
12:30a	JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure	790	0.41	527
1:00a	Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn	679	0.36	456
1:30a	Hunter X Hunter	660	0.34	438
2:00a	Naruto: Shippuden	656	0.34	431
2:30a	One Piece	587	0.30	386
3:00a	Ghost in the Shell (r)	559	0.28	365

	PROGRAM	Viewers (000)	A1849 rating	A1849 (000)
3:30a	Bob’s Burgers (r)	561	0.27	352
4:00a	Rick & Morty (r)	544	0.27	346
4:30a	Rick & Morty (r)	548	0.27	346
5:00a	King of the Hill (r)	563	0.27	349
5:30a	King of the Hill (r)	552	0.26	339

Cable Rankings – Saturday 3/18/17

What follows are the top 200 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Saturday, March 18:

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research